Phillies

Trea Turner Knows He Sucks Right Now

By Kyle Pagan

Published: May 23rd, 2023 · 11:03 AM EDT

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After Monday night’s game, where Trea Turner actually got a hit with RISP, he admitted that he understands he sucks right now.

This via Paul Hagen at NBCSportsPhilly.com:

“I’m honest with myself. I’ve sucked,” he said after the Phils fell to the Diamondbacks, 6-3, Monday night at Citizens Bank Park.

“But every at bat, every play, every game is another day to try to do better. To try to be the player that I know I am. If you harp on yesterday or harp on the last at bat, it’s just going to snowball on you and you’re not going to be able to turn it around. I don’t lie to myself. I think I’m a positive guy. I think I can always do better and always can be better. That’s the kind of attitude I have. But at the same time I know when I don’t do something right.”

It takes a big man to admit something we already knew. Hand up, we all suck some times. A lot of us are going to suck this week as we shift our focus to Memorial Day weekend. Then some of us are going to keep sucking all the way through summertime as we take Fridays off to get the weekend started early and Mondays because the hangover from Sunday Funday in Sea Isle is more than you originally bargained for. It’s going to be a cycle of suck for some of us until Labor Day. But not all of us are getting paid $300 million to suck.

Let me not bury the lede though. Trea Turner has really fucking sucked. Like the worst he’s ever played in his career. And that’s not even me saying that. That’s coming straight from the horse’s mouth. He has less home runs in 44 games than he did in six games at the World Baseball Classic:

Trea Turner still has more HRs and RBI in the World Baseball Classic than he does as a Phillie

WBC — Phillies —
6 Games 44 Games
5 HRs 4 HRs
11 RBI 10 RBI pic.twitter.com/130WkOvznB

— Phillies Muse (@Phillies_Muse) May 20, 2023

Trea Turner getting some work in cage pregame tonight

Trea is batting just .230 with .276 OBP over last month and batting just .154 with RISP this year. Trea is hitting just .212 at home and .292 on the road.

We are live from CBP on NBC10 at 620pm pic.twitter.com/vGFboxNxL1

— John Clark (@JClarkNBCS) May 22, 2023

That was Trea Turner's first hit with a runner in scoring position since April 19.

— Matt Gelb (@MattGelb) May 23, 2023

 

He’s sucked so much he needs to move out of Ben Simmons’ old house. He’s done literally everything Jon Hamm said he wouldn’t do:

pic.twitter.com/jprwdbBJ7J

— Sly Cooper (@SlyCooperBurner) November 7, 2022

Now I believe he’ll bust out of the slump because I have no other choice. Hopefully June Schwarber and June Turner tear up the next month of the season and we’re back on board. It’s not like anyone is running away with the division currently.

It’s not just Turner, either. The pitching sucks, the top of the lineup sucks, and some of the fielding miscues are straight up laughable. They’re just not a good team this year. I don’t know if it’s because they aren’t gelling like they did off the field or there is too much pressure to produce. But the Phillies gotta figure it out. I don’t know how much longer I can tell people that “it’s still early.”