Casty is a known quantity: he is extremely streaky hitter.
He will run hot and cold for spells with little in between and there is nothing anyone, including him based on his career, can do to change that reality unfortunately. All we know is that each cold spell with be followed by a hot spell and vice versa.
We can look at his tOPS+ to illustrate this trend for the last several seasons.
2022:
March/April (91 PA): 145
May (117): 96
June (111): 63
July (105): 82
August (105): 138
Sept/Oct (29): 48
2023:
March/April (122 PA): 126
May (109): 80
June (106): 144
July (103): 26
August (120): 115
Sept/Oct (111): 105
So far in 2024:
March/April (124): 67
May (115): 121
June (30): 158
Obviously, June is not even half over so SSS, but one might expect a cold spell in July and then another heater in August from him.
We have only one realistic option due to the contract:
Pray he runs hot at the most important times of the season
