At the end of the day, he is missing meatballs, the pitches in his wheelhouse that are either mid 90 fastballs or mid 80 sliders are being fouled back.
Like you can be Kyle Schwarber and have an absolute s*** recognition of the strike zone and uncomfortable swing, but if you give Schwarber a meatball, it is getting launched.
He definitely gets them, in fact (for LTBF's sake) I start mentioning them in the GDTs every time it happened during his AB and he just does not do damage with them.
Like almost every meatball is fouled back or watched. Just look at the AB on Monday night against Adams - swings at garbage, watches the absolute meatball go by (the similar pitch that Bo cranked a HR on) and then swings at garbage again.
So it begs to differ, what is he looking for? Why is his discipline so bad of late that he just doesn't commit to things he can drive instead of trying to make contact with every pitch in existence?
Is he 'pushing to be the hero'? Why, what in the last 140 games led him to believe this approach is heroic?
Is he 'struggling'? Then stop with the swing happy approach - get deep into counts, take the walks, let the ones he can't drive go (until its 2 strikes and you have to protect), sit on the pitches that he can drive and then take them right center (so be late the on the swing, but drive them) - once you get comfortable, then start pulling them for HRs.
There are so many ways to address this issue with him, and at the least, get him to have competitive ABs instead of grounding out or praying for holes every AB. If their mantra to him is "keep doing what you are doing and you'll get there" after 140 games, its kind of stupid. He's 23, and on all accounts, immature as f*** in and off the field but we are going for a playoff run not fostering/building like the Os are, who have the luxury of sitting there and watching Gunnar fumble every single groundball to his side.