“You’re going to see really good players have really bad years.”
Those words, spoken by Christian Yelich before the start of the pandemic-shortened 2020 MLB season, forecasted the former MVP’s own struggles last summer. Sure, it was a smaller sample size after a lengthy layoff with a disjointed preseason training schedule and a season played without fans amidst an ongoing public health crisis, but Yelich summed things up perfectly by saying “I thought I was pretty much all-around terrible. It just wasn’t good.”
Fresh off signing a franchise-record 9-year, $215 mil contract last March, Yelich endured the worst offensive season of his career.