Let’s give Alec Bohm some flowers

Sometimes we forget that baseball is a long season. Football schedule mentality, the need to win every single game no matter the cost, has ruined that point of view for some of the casual fans, so when a player is off to a slow start, that player is torn up a bit by the fanbase. Alec Bohm is one of those players that this happened to this year. He was not good at all in the first weeks of April and the way he carried himself showed it. Frustration was visible, but knowing that this is a marathon and not a sprint helped.

The other day, in the weekly look at three players playing well, Alec Bohm was the first name I mentioned. In it, I picked April 18 as an arbitrary end point for the…