There are very few among us who expected to see this out of Cody Bellinger at this point. With the horrendous Spring Training that he had right after a terrible 2021 season, Dodgers fans were ready to write him off in this lineup. But instead, Cody is flourishing with the bat.
Across his first 12 games of the season, Bellinger is hitting .279 and has posted an OPS of .889, all while striking out 15 times. And while that may seem like a lot, it’s much better than he was doing in Spring Training and it has slightly improved as the Dodgers season has progressed.