Well… he hit 31 of them a couple of years ago and averages over 20 per 600 AB's, so he was kind of there for his homers.Ragnar Danneskjoldd said:
Yuli was never there for his homers. If he bats .270 he's less than 20 pts off his career average. He'll be fine. He'll deliver. He'll get some clutch hits.
If we were at risk of not making playoffs I would be incline to freakout. There's almost no chance.
He's got 24 doubles in 81 games, and he's ahead of his HR pace for last year so it's not like he's not driving the ball when he makes contact… he's just been awful in the clutch.
As we have seen before though this can turn around real quick with a couple of weeks where he goes nuclear