Former MLB player sends warning to Dalton Rushing Dodgers fans are already afraid of

Dalton Rushing has actually managed to stay out of headlines for a few days, which kind of feels like an eternity for him at this point. He raised some hackles again after a timeout/pitch clock incident with an umpire during the Dodgers' series against the Marlins, but that might've been slightly overblown.

At least he went a whole series without actively disparaging other players? After three straight series of that, it kind of looks like growth. (The bar is clearly very, very low.)

Fans are sure to be eagle-eyed on anything he does going forward, but the noise has died down a bit, at least for now.

Chris Rose and former MLB player Trevor Plouffe wrapped up the drama by sending a message to Rushing on Baseball Today.

"He does need to chill out a little bit," Plouffe said. "There's a saying in baseball, 'You're either humble or you're about to be humbled.' This game is very tough, you're not gonna be a one-dotter your entire career. If that's who you are, you gotta keep the energy up when you're struggling, because that's coming. That's just the game of baseball."

Former MLB player Trevor Plouffe sends message to Dalton Rushing after three straight Dodgers series filled with drama

This is what Dodgers fans who aren't actively egging Rushing on are already afraid of. If Rushing starts playing the humble rookie as soon as he hits his first slump, it exposes his entire run of controversy as an ego trip (which we already suspect it sort of was). Remember, his sample size is still relatively small, and he wasn't even in the lineup on Friday night against the Cardinals.

It surely helps Rushing's case that he's been one of the Dodgers' more productive hitters in an otherwise very quiet stretch. Doing that in a lineup filled with superstars only elevates him and makes it all the more impressive.

And he has been good; we'll give him that. But he'll hit a rough patch and the rest of the lineup will wake up, and he probably won't be so quick to dismiss an apparent injury or insult a player because Rushing wasn't able to recover a wild pitch quickly enough.

It's like Plouffe said: if that's who he is, it's who he is. But he has to stand by it lest he prove exactly what Dodgers fans have already started to suspect.

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