What is wrong with Franmil Reyes and Myles Straw?

 I have seen slumps before but the body language I am seeing out of these two guys tells me there is something more going on here.

As far as Straw, he just looks overmatched at the plate, like he is just trying to slap or poke at the ball.  If I had to make a guess as a completely unqualified diagnostician, I would say he is suffering wrist pain, probably in his left wrist.  He is just not swinging the bat with authority and he wouldn't be throwing out runners if his right shoulder/arm was bothering him.

As far as Reyes, he just looks like he is not seeing the ball at all.  I mean, at all.  Based on last year it appears that he is seeing a blurry vision of the ball.   When it is in a certain area his body can react to what he is seeing to make hard contact.   But he is being fooled way too often on pitches way outside and he is not even fighting off fastballs on the inner half above the waist, constantly swinging through them.

And neither of them look engaged at all when at the plate.  Maybe it is the utter frustration knowing they are so much better than what they are showing.  I don't know.   But the body language for both of them at the plate is just really convincing me that these problems are not fixable this year, whatever the cause.

When you put a lineup on the field that has four automatic outs (Hedges/Maile, Clement, Straw and Reyes) surrounded by guys, except for Ramirez, who are only moderate starting quality in the majors, you just can't win baseball games at this level.

Yes they are above .500 so we all should be happy with that.   

But the production of Straw and Reyes?  They are killing our offense and they need to get right or go on the IL.  With them at last year's form this team is in first place in the AL Central.   With them this year, they are making it almost impossible for this team to win against good teams.