There have been some hard hit balls, and he put up a few good at bats in the first game of the Yankees series especially, but it's very true, the results haven't been good.
It's clear he made an adjustment at AAA this year, because beyond the results, the difference was huge in his peripherals. He posted his lowest K% since A+ -- just 13.8%. And yet, so far at the major league level, he's looked largely outmatched and frustrated. Three line drives have gone for 1 hit, sure, but he's also struck out 5 times in 19 at bats. I was playing the optimist in the game thread, but frankly, most of the time he looked like shit. It looked like if they'd thrown a curtain over him he would've swung through it.
Maybe this is just his first real slump of the year (he's posted an OPS north of .800 each month in AAA), and we caught him at a bad time. Maybe he just blows. I don't think there's any doubt that the difference between AAA and MLB is enough to make JBJ a worse hitter; I think the cognitive dissonance comes in when the difference is nearly one hundred points of batting average for his career, and ~10% more strikeouts so far at the major league level. For Christ's sake, Joey Gallo was striking out 37% of the time at AAA and even his K% only went up 6% upon promotion.
I won't discount the possibility that this is the real JBJ at the major league level, but I hope he'll get a run here beyond a week's ABs as a kind of last shot. I'll take that chance even if it means living with my cognitive dissonance forever.