Kirk, Gimenez, Clement and Roden have been fine on the other side of the ball. But the issue is they’re being relied on to hit in the middle-of-the-order (Gimenez, and Kirk especially) when in reality they’re bottom order bats. As well, we’re rostering too many types of these guys and don’t have the other bats to make up for it.
As for projections, they’re not the be-all and end-all. Adding another bat or two with pop, and having Wagner & Roden as depth in AAA would have been better IMO.