True, his OPS from 2017-2019 is just .705 with a .313 OBP.
His 2013-2014 and 2017-2019 combined sample size is larger than his very nice stratch from 2015 to 2016, so I am can see how we can view the poor-hitting JBJ as the "real JBJ."
That 2015-2016 stretch was pretty damn good, and the sample size was big enough to view as significant (891 PAs). His numbers those two years combined were .262/.345/.489/.834. Averaged over 162 games:
.262 26 92 (42 2B+3B & 97 runs scored)
That seems like so long ago.
I admit, I got very hopeful after he had a very prolonged good stretch, last year, after a poor start. I thought maybe he had finally solved the consistency problem that has plagued his career. His poor start, this year, is still a very small sample size, but it's getting close to the point it was last year, when he went...
.502 until May 19th (142 PAs)
.793 the rest of the season (393 PAs)