Longoria went 1-for-3 with a walk and his fifth homer Monday against the Mariners.
Longoria has been bringing the power this season, with eight doubles and a .455 slugging percentage that would be his best since 2013. But Longoria has been uncharacteristically impatient, with just a 4 percent walk rate, and the result has been a brutal .279 OBP. It's hard to imagine Longoria's .240 average and 23 percent strikeout rate wouldn't be improved if he could find his selective ways of old as well. He has recorded at least one strikeout in each of his past seven games, so even with Monday's performance, it's hard to say things are moving in the right direction just yet.