At the tender age of 23, Jordan Walker has already reached a crossroads in his major league career. The St. Louis Cardinals outfielder's struggles at the plate have continued to mount in his third season, and he is tied for the 14th-worst wRC in baseball for players with at least 950 plate appearances since he debuted in 2023.
The embattled outfielder found himself under fire from manager Oli Marmol and hitting coach Brant Brown on the podcast "The Gashouse Gang," where they made it clear that Walker was not displaying enough urgency in making the requested changes to hopefully improve his production at the plate.