Good post even though we differ in how much run we'd give him.
People can keep talking about how these other people struggled to start their careers, but this is on a whole different level. It's not just struggling, it's complete ineptitude as he's simply being overmatched to date. He's taking hittable pitches, sometimes for strike 3, he's getting blown away by average ish fastballs, and he's not really getting particularly unfortunate results when he does actually put the ball in play.
Yeah, Gunnar was "bad" but after game 3 last year his OPS was only under .600 on one day. I think we'd all be mostly fine keeping him up and working through it if that's the kind of bad we were talking about.
Bregman started his career 2-38, .053/.143/.053 in 10 games. He only had 18 games at AAA but was 22. He then went 3-5 and had a .938 OPS the rest of the year (39 more games). I guess that's the hope, and Elias watched it happen.