This team has this uncanny knack for giving up the homerun to like the one guy who can really burn you. The Mets have a good lineup, but that's two 3R homeruns in two games for their biggest HR threat. They refuse to "pitch around" anyone. It's maddening.
Hiura had two really good pitches to hit and did nothing with either. Frustrating. I'm a big backer of his and really hope things click for him in in Milwaukee but those are pitches he should be centering on with relative ease.
The time to have extended him to a friendly deal would have been 2018 or 19 most likely. At this point, unless he's willing to take an extreme discount, I don't see how the two sides work out a deal. It sucks but it is what it is.