For the likes of Clayton Kershaw and Andrew McCutchen, it’s still much too early to hit the panic button.
Then again, as the 2015 season reaches the one-quarter mark, two of the game’s most dominant superstars have yet to get on track. While Kershaw and McCutchen are the most prominent players to tumble into a slump, there are also starting rotations, batting orders and even entire squads that have yet to find their way.
The good news for these slow starters is that the 162-game season is a marathon, and there’s still plenty of time to change course. Still, that doesn’t mean the players and teams on this list have any intention of being patient. One of the biggest names to make the cut has already enlisted the help of one of baseball’s all-time greats in an effort to put his early-season funk in the rear-view mirror.