How Do We Fix Our Hitting?

 Look, this isn't working.  

• Gonzalez wasn't hitting the ball hard.  Either he fixes that or he isn't useful to this team right now.  Gonzalez sent to the minors to fix his problems.  Check
• Mike Zunino isn't hitting and is playing TERRIBLE, I repeat TERRIBLE defense.   Cam Gallagher isn't hitting.  We have a lot of money invested in Zunino, not so much in Gallagher.  Bring up Bo Naylor, ready or not and trade Gallagher.  Platoon Zunino and Naylor which means that Naylor should get a lot of the ABs.  Keep Fry as your 3rd catcher
• Will Brennan isn't hitting.  Send Brennan down to the minors to get his act together.  Bring up Richie Palacios.  Platoon him and Fry in RF.
• Gabriel Arias is pathetic at the plate.   He doesn't play the brand of ball the Guardians played successfully last year.  In fact, like guys like Mercado, Zimmer, Clement, etc., he is the antithesis of the brand of ball the Guardians played successfully last year.   We need to find a player who can play that brand of baseball.  Send Arias down and bring up Rocchio, who DOES play Guardians brand of baseball.  Where Rocchio would play is up in the air but we could find ways to give some everyday ABs to him just like we are trying to do with Arias.
• Naylor cannot hit left handers.  Play Bell exclusively at 1B and use Freeman, when he is not playing elsewhere, as the DH for Naylor against lefties. Or play Fry at 1B against lefties.

Will these moves make the team better, offensively?  I am not sure but the guys we have up here now are not doing the job and putting the offensively-lost Arias in RF where he has no experience is NOT the answer.  We have the redundancies who are on the 40-man roster and ARE producing at AAA.  It's time to use them to give us a spark.

In summary:

Send down: Arias and Brennan

Trade or release: Gallagher

Bring up: Bo Naylor, Richie Palacios and Brayan Rocchio

Play more: Freeman, Fry, Palacios, Bo Naylor and Rocchio.