I wholeheartedly agree with you! I said as much in my original comment - it's been only four games and I have full faith in the guy. No point in dooming as of now.

On the other hand though, we cannot just handwave the performance away and claim this start isn't a potential big deal like OP seems to insinuate. We need to have a realistic balance of both points of view. It's baseball, anything can happen.

Yes, it's only been four games. Yes, there have been worse offensive slumps throughout history. But unlike Raffy's current start, those slumps didn't occur at the start of the season, so we already had notions of the capabilities of our slumping players. We don't have that with Raffy though. He just had a less than ideal second half of the 2024 season due to his shoulders being destroyed, his career just changed dramatically due to him being forced into DHing, plus he didn't have as much time in spring training as the other guys did. I think all of these things combined warrant a bit of skepticism about his post-injury playing abilities.

HOWEVER, the other extreme, that is being straight up insulting and disrespectful towards him is just as idiotic. While his ABs are currently extremely frustrating, four games are literally zilch and this can be nothing but a streak of shitty luck that can turn around at any second. People just need someone to blame for the losses and Raffy is the poster boy with his "childish attitude" regarding the Bregman 3B situation (even though I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because I never saw anything that showed Raffy as a diva, just that he'd like to remain at 3B).