The 2022 Major League Baseball season was a brutal one for Cincinnati Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson. He knocked the cover off the ball - his 130 OPS+ was the brightest of bright spots on an otherwise poor Reds lineup - but was limited to just 50 games played on the whole.
It wasn’t just one injury, either - it was a litany of them. A busted thumb, concussions, and ultimately a broken collarbone put Cincinnati’s future star on the shelf more often than not, rendering him forced to watch from the sidelines as his club sputtered and stumbled all year long.