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Ten MLB stars that would love to hit restart button on 2017 season

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Andrew McCutchen, right fielder, Pittsburgh Pirates

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The early going of 2017 has been tough sledding for the face of the Pirates’ franchise. McCutchen’s bat has just not been there.

Through the first six games of the season, Cutch has failed to generate a single extra-base hit, has struck out seven times, scored only one run, driven in only one run and is slashing at .167/.231/.167. Even scarier is that those numbers are actually deceptively good.

In Pittsburgh’s third game of the season, McCutchen went 3-for-4 with an RBI. Where is he without that game? Slashing at .050/.095/.050 with only one hit, one walk, and one run scored. So, while his overall numbers have been bad, they’ve been even worse in five of six games.

To a degree, it’s understandable. Anyone can have a bad week. Given that McCutchen dealt with a slew of trade rumors in the off-season, it’s fair to think that his off-season routine might have been different than normal.

But at the same time, McCutchen is coming off of the worst season of his career. A good start would have been a sign to the Pirates and their fans that 2016 was just a bad year and not a sign of things to come. But he’s yet to do anything to show that. McCutchen obviously has plenty of time to do that, but an opportunity to start 2017 over would be a welcome one for the Pittsburgh outfielder.

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