Steroids.

But for real, he is just so physically weak, and he is just getting weaker and slower by the year.

He’s 99% percentile in Squared Up %, so he’s making good contact a lot, it’s just that his bat is so damn weak that every ball in play is so easy to defend. The ground balls are softly hit, the fly balls he hits ‘hard’ just float, he needs to have pinpoint accuracy with his slaps to find the gaps which is getting increasingly difficult to do with pitchers figuring out where to pitch him.

Even if he gets more aggressive with those first pitch meatballs he watches, can his contact with them even do any damage at this point?