I figured this was coming because Nick Hundley's "to much has been given, much will be expected" commercial that used to play non-stop on Fox Sports San Diego suddenly stopped a week or so ago. It was only a matter of time after that.

Nick has been terrible since the season started. He's been an automatic out in a line up of automatic outs. The Padres are now sending a clear message that after 3 months if you still can't produce they'll find someone who can. That someone is Yasmani Grandal. I haven't checked in on him recently but he was tearing it up just a few weeks ago down on the farm. Grandal was up earlier this year for a cup sip of coffee. He wasn't up long enough to unpack his bags before he was sent down again.

Could other poor performers like Cam Maybin be joining Hundley soon? Tom Krasovic thinks he could benefit by tweaking his swing in a low pressure environment.

Coincidentally both Hundley and Maybin received extensions in the off season.

From Bob Scanlan:

I’m not a hitting coach, but in watching Nick since mid May, from the perspective of a former pitcher whose livelihood depended on being able to asses swings and hitters, it looked to me like he was getting further and further away from some basic mechanics of a healthy swing, and the mental approach that would get him out of the rut that he had become mired in.