Around this time last year, I wrote about how Matt Olson was having a really weird season for the Braves, his first in Atlanta as he replaced departed franchise mainstay Freddie Freeman at first base. The short version: Olson was somehow performing great, mediocre and poor all at the same time, putting up numbers that seemed to contradict each other.
Now, nearly a year later, he's having another really weird season for the first-place Braves, just in a different way.
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Olson's 2023 season so far as been a study in extremes: strikeouts, walks and home runs.