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

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Jose Altuve, second baseman, Houston Astros

The man who’s won two of the American League’s last batting titles is hitting .188.  His slash line is rounded off with a .257 OBP and .188 slugging percentage. All six of Altuve’s hits have been singles, and the normally fleet-footed second baseman has stolen only one base.

While those numbers are all troubling, they’re all trumped by another ugly number — eight strikeouts.

All eight of those strikeouts came in Houston’s first five games. Altuve recorded two K’s in his team’s first, third, fourth, and fifth games. Altuve has never struck out more than 85 times in a single season. In 2016, he struck out only 70 and recorded multiple strikeout games only ten times throughout the entire season. So, in just four percent of games played compared to 2016, Altuve is already 40-percent of the way to last year’s multi-strikeout total.

While the high K rate is rare, we wouldn’t be reacting to the strikeouts so strongly if the rest of the numbers were coming in well. But as anyone can clearly see, that hasn’t been the case. Like everyone else on this list, a 2017 mulligan would be awfully inviting for Altuve.

Of course, that’s not an option, so we’ll have to settle for the following piece of good news. Things can’t get much worse than this.

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