While they have come into the season on generally different paths, both of these St. Louis Cardinals outfielders were met with much ire to start the season. The stories have some tangental similarities, but it’s all connected to one idea: underachievement due to underlying circumstances.
While this can be acceptable in many fields on occasion, it is far less forgivable when almost $29 million are being committed to the two to perform in 2019. Of course, there is a difference in their situations mainly because of two factors: the nature of the ailment and age.
First, in Dexter Fowler‘s case, it is really hard for me to honestly be able to have faith to maintain consistent play out of him because of the nature of his ailment.