Dodgers’ Michael Conforto Opens Up About ‘Frustrating’ Struggles This Season
Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Michael Conforto has struggled mightily for the first six weeks of the 2025 season.
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While many MLB players deal with a rollercoaster of ups and downs throughout the year, Conforto has mostly dealt with the latter early in his Dodgers tenure.
This spring, manager Dave Roberts said he believed Conforto would have a similar trajectory to Teoscar Hernandez’s first season with the Dodgers. The outfielder signed a one-year, $17 million deal with the Dodgers in the offseason, meaning every at-bat essentially counts in terms of building value for a future contract.
Entering Saturday’s game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Conforto is hitting .134 with two home runs, six RBIs and an OPS of .504. The 32-year-old’s batting average is the second-lowest among qualified MLB hitters.
“This game will kick you down. It will kick you when you’re down. It can be cruel,” Conforto said to Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times. “So sometimes, you just have to lean on what you know you are as a player, and all the support you have around you … and keep going straight ahead, keep working.”
In Thursday’s series opener at Chase Field, Conforto recorded three hard-hit balls in three at-bats, but couldn’t manage to keep a Dodgers rally going in the eighth inning.
“I’m definitely frustrated,” Conforto said. “Happy with a couple hard-hit balls today. Frustrated to be in position to keep a rally going and not being able to beat that ball out. It’s frustrating. It makes me sick.”
Roberts has not demoted Conforto to the bench yet, and while many fans are wondering why, the Dodgers are still hopeful the offseason addition can turn things around.
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