The Brutal Decline of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 

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He'll be fine. Its so obvious how good his bat skills are just from watching him. This game is mental, I believe he's not comfortable right now and is trying to make adjustments for stuff that doesn't need adjusting.

I think another to note is that the Jays got rid of all of his protection in the line-up during the offseason.

Dude is still batting .260 and nearly hitting 100 rbis that's better than a lot of scrubs playing today. He would start on every team still today so ya he is fine

All the talent in the world to crush plenty of bombs, drive in a lot of runs, and bat near .300. he had a .405 OBP in 2021. He’s truly a big time talent when he’s on. Lot of years left for him

What a ridiculous video. Vladimir Guerrero Jr is only 24 years old!!!!! How can you name a video a brutal decline when the MLB player career is still in it's infancy!? Guerrero Jr still made all star still cracked 26 homers with .264/.345/444 line. The Blue Jays also lost Marcus Semien who was good protection in the lineup for Guerrero Jr. The dude is still only 24 year old. Wait another 3 years before you call his decline.

This goes to show how hard it is to maintain a level of consistency that lives up to the hype built around a prospect like him. It's why Ken Griffey Jr. is my all-time favorite player. He came into the league with massive hype as the #1 draft pick, carrying his father's name, actually playing with his dad and he lived up to all the expectations and then some. One of the most gifted players ever both at the box and in the outfield.

As a Jays fan, it’s been hard to watch our should be mvp candidate struggle. He’s also such a nice guy irl very kind and never rejects a fan for a picture or autograph

There is no brutal decline. He'll be 25 next year. He had an OPS+ of 133 last year, I'd hardly say that's declining and more so just a young hitter finding his way in the bigs. But you got me taking the bait and commenting on the video so good job.

Could you do a video on Kyle Tucker? He had an amazing regular season in 2023 and then was absolutely out of it in the post season somehow hitting worse than the catcher Maldonado.

I've been waiting for a video of Vlad like this. Keep up the amazing work!

Why must you emphasizes the last word in every SENTENCE !!!!!😂😂 great vid though I just couldn’t stop hearing it

Players have down seasons and slow beginnings. Who knows about the future

He hasn't declined. His BABIP is around 25 points lower, over the last two years, than the average of all hitters. In essence his batting average should have been around .300 for 3 straight seasons. His K and FB rates are relatively the same as his best year. He has just had some bad luck.

Vlad Jr. is by no means a small dude, but at 6-2, i dont believe he was ever near 300lbs.

Let's just shovel dirt on a 24 year old kid's career. His '23 K & BB % were better than '22 and his BABIP was 10-15 points lower than his career norms. Jeez.

Settle down. He's 24.

Done-ee-din

The entire team slumped big time with hitting, they need new coaches. The derby showed he's still got the pop, I think it's a mental thing more than anything

He needs to mature. Coaching and management is major problem for the jays and it ain’t helping Vlad at all

If he loses some weight and the jays get new hitting coaches he will be fine

It’s because of his weight. The pitch clock is exposing the big guys

Imagine spending your entire life in the MLB in the U.S. and Canada.....then having a kid that you know from the time they're about 5 that they're also going to play in the MLB.....and still....NEVER....EVER......even consider teaching them English.

i miss Guerrero jr doing his best i hope he gets out of this funk

I like this channel, but this video doesn’t need to exist. Vlad Jr. is 24. Sometimes a guy slumps for a few years once the League scouting report gets around, and they haven’t matured past it yet.

As with Cecil and Prince Fielder, Vlad Jr.’s weight will relegate him to DH duties.

This sounded like one very long run-on sentence.

I think they jays have a bit of a culture problem in the locker room. Some guys don’t want to put in the work. I think this is what happened to both Vladdy and Manoah, they didn’t put in the work over the last couple of off seasons and it’s showing on the field.

In the 2022 wild card series when the Blue Jays blew the lead against the mariners, I remember the camera cutting to Vlad looking all sad in the dugout…while the game was tied. And he just failed to show up in the postseason again. He’s a good player, but he’s not a winner. Doesn’t quite have that killer instinct.

Well done video! Great research and editing. Really loved it. Just gotta say though, Vlad still is legit. No way you can count him out yet.

Yea he really killed it in DUN DIN🤣🤣

Could you do a video on bartolo colon? Just how crazy and funny the story of his career is

Vladdy's mom, the matriarch of their family, has been very ill and that played a major part of last season's anomaly. He will be a Triple Crown threat for the next 10 years.

On top of every point you mentioned, do you think it’s been impacted by the change in mlb baseballs over the years? I’ve seen a lot of people speak about how it’s affected the homerun numbers over the years

Maybe I'm just being ignorant, simplistic, in thinking maybe we may witness progression, an evolution into the next level, if we saw a Vlad Jr. who got into better physical shape. He is too young to look like Miguel Cabrera in his 40's. If he was better conditioned physically it could show the world that he has a new-found dedication to his profession. And with that dedication, a new passion, the crafting of the mental skill-set & knowledge to succeed at a higher level would probably soon follow.

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He’s not even in his prime, decline is a crazy word

I’d really like to see a vid on Wil Myers formerly of the rays he was a big contributor to their playoff runs in the 2010s before he got traded then he was gone like a 👻

Bro keep doin these vids hope they actual mlb players see these and take heed and play better man

It’s pronounced dun EE din, not dooned-in…

Im marking it now - This video will not age well

How Guerrero responds next season will tell a great deal about the trajectory his career will take. Baseball is a game of adjustments, after all. As a Yankee fan, let's look at Judge and Sanchez. Judge came up and sucked hitting a pathetic .173. He made radical changes and has been dominant, when healthy, ever since. He continues to improve, especially in his plate discipline. Sanchez, on the other hand, blazed out of the gate, but once pitchers made the adjustment he fell behind and could never himself readjust. Guerrero is in the same boat and we'll have to see how he responds.

You described a guy that had 26 hr, 94 rbi, and 159 hits last season, as a marginally above average hitter. I would like to see what the "average hitter" put up last year.

Next year will be big for him :) he’ll figure it out. Let’s go vlad!

Something to keep in mind is that his 2021 production was inflated by playing a good chunk of the season in minor league ballparks with very hitter friendly dimensions. Those inflated numbers may have given a false impression of what his true normal level of production would be going forward. Vlad 2021 Splits: Overall in non-MLB stadiums: .364/.469/.827 (1.296 OPS) 21 HR in 44 games. Overall in MLB stadiums: .291/.375/.518 (.893 OPS) 27 HR in 117 games. He had about a 37 HR pace in MLB ballparks, but his 77 HR pace in minor league parks brought his season total to 48 and raised his OPS by over 100 points. It is not fair to expect 2021 level production from him when he was only able to achieve that thanks to playing a quarter of his games in very hitter friendly minor league parks. Vlad needs to be recognized for the hitter he is not and criticized for failing to live up to unrealistic expectations.

I live for it!!! Bhahahha

Didn't Cody bellinger have a resurgent year after one of these? Buy your Guerrero stock.

I got a question do baseball players prime end quicker than NBA & NFL players

Kinda started his offense career at the plate similar to Bryce Harper - the walks. Great bat to ball skills and power nonetheless. When he starts to draw more walks he’ll get better pitches to hit

Some of his “decline” could just be the inherent randomness of baseball… it’s a long season and a mentally exhausting game. He could’ve been playing through injuries or any number of different things; he’s still a young kid with the time to still put it all together

doondin

Doon din? It’s dun E din

He is having the same trajectory as Harper. He will figure it out

Bro,I respect you immensely,you work hard on your content,and you do great research,but I have a question.. Why do you accentuate the last word of every sentence you speak? I'm just asking if that's a particular broadcasting technique that is used. Is it to keep rhythm of your speech steady? I promise I'm not a troll and this is not a criticism of your style,but I've watched enough of your videos to notice that this is the way you speak,and I'm curious. (Also a broadcast background here as well)

Hey man, don't take this the wrong way. Interesting video. I watched it all no problem. But once I noticed you were putting same accent on every sentence, it became very hard to focus.

Hey, he will bounce back. The stats showed he was just unlucky

Wait, WTF was that pronunciation of Dunedin? You're saying "done-din"???? It sounds like "done-eden"

"Brutal decline". He had a 133 WRC+ this year....

At 12:15 he said "red herring" when he meant "smoking gun"

Well i was interested until that interrupted sponsor. Gotta do that at the start. Not get into the subject THEN do it.

Living under your dad's shadow is tons of pressure

Hate to be that guy but it's "Done-e-din" not "Dune-din" Great video tho!! love ur content

I heard he hates the Yankees, as a Yankees fan, I love this video! 🤣

To be honest I think the entire Blue Jays core is a bit overhyped. They always lose 1st round of playoffs

He's like 24, give him a break

The Blue Jays' single A affiliate is pronounced Done-ee-din, not Dune-din.

Vladdie ain't going nowhere! Jays just gotta put it all together in a very tough division.

Knowing employees from the inside of the organizations management, from what they tell me he has to many ppl in his ears telling him how to get his game back.

in 2021 i thought Jr was a sure thing all time great hitter, i do not watch MLB so i do not know what happened... fax!!!

No Matter how "Blue Chip" the Prospect, some will always have a very short peak then never reach it again. Vlad Jr is just Kung Fu Panda reskinned with a famous name

He will bounce back. He Just had one down year.

If there is one thing I hate it’s Canadian fans. Worst game I’ve ever been to is. This year tigers vs Blue jays

Hes still putting better numbers than 3/4 of mob players lol. Its not a decline he just isnt having s crazy season like he was before. Hes also still young

His decline is more than likely a mix of immaturity, egotism, bad mechanics, bad management and bad coaching. Side note: Dunedin is pronounced “Dunn-EE-dinn.”

More than a bit early to write him off.

Who the heck is saying that the blue jays will get rid of him 😂😂😂

I think it’s too soon to say he’s declining. I can see him coming back with 40+ HR and batting 290 shit happens. He’s young

You do know he was an all star this year for the third consecutive year, right?

I wouldn't call this a brutal decline. Dude is only 24 or 25. A lot of baseball greats have a couple lackluster years before they ramp up into phenoms in their later 20's. He has a lot of time ahead, he just needs to master his fundamentals a bit more and stop focusing on the power hitting so much and he'll be fine.

See what happens when you go for homers every swing? So much for egghead analytics.

Don’t put Rhys in there cmon now he’s hit 30 homers almost every year and has led the league in walks 1 or 2 times and has some huge playoff homers

That's the threshold for "brutal" decline? What adjective do you use for Javy Baez's decline? His launch angle has always been rough. He just needs to stop hitting hard grounders when he's a below average runner at best. He'll be fine.

His fielding is elite for 1st basemen. Definitely worthy of his gold glove. Other than that, hopefully he'll turn it around

His 2021 season was an outlier. If you compare the other 4 season, his numbers are nearly identical and he hasn't declined or improved at all.

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You seem to jump the gun to much, im not a jays fan and i think he will be fine hes still crazy young and needs to mature the jays need new coaching

To me, Bichette is the face of that franchise

Yeah, it's way way way too early to make a video like this... As you said, he's 24 years old. Most rookies aren't 24 years old, and he already has 5 years under his belt. He'll be fine..

Give him a couple years....see what happens....it's not like he's bottomed out.

Love your content but I can’t help but notice your voice inflection always going up and down…..up….and down lol

The Jays are the new Twins for losing playoff games

LOL, the guy's hitting .194...he's killing his team. He's just a weak shadow of his father. Money killed him.

He just needs to stop trying to be like his dad, then the pressure will be off. It also wouldn't hurt to drop a few pounds, or a hundred.

Simple. An extra 300lbs is going to slow your swing down.

I still believe in Vladdy. His bat to ball skills are still elite. The real cause for concern is his plate discipline has decline each year since 2021. As well as having no real approach at the plate.

I think he has gotten comfortable. I wouldn’t be surprised if his weight is what ends his career sooner than it should

Ya this guy is cooked. Vlady is fine.

He's still good it would be stupid to trade him yet

To call a 26-homer, 30-double, 94-RBI season a “brutal decline” is about the dumbest thing I’ve heard in months. Did you expect him to just hit 50 homers and produce a 7.0 WAR every year of his career until he turned 40?

9:26 its pronounced as duh-nee-dn