Joe Panik had another lost season

Stat Line

.254/.307/.332, 392 PA, 4 HR, 24 RBI

The season started out so promisingly for Joe Panik. He began his 2018 campaign by homering off of Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen in back-to-back games leading the Giants to twin 1-0 wins over the Dodgers. While that presaged Jansen being in for a rough year more so than Panik hitting 162 home runs, it looked like Panik was going to pick up where he left off in 2017.

He did not pick up where he left off. Panik hit well enough through April, putting together a .267/.323./.389 slash line. That may seem unimpressive, but Marcus Semien just put together a four-win season with a similar line. If Panik continued to hit like that, he could have been a…