PITTSBURGH — If he's being honest, Andrew McCutchen thought he'd have gotten to 2,000 hits long ago.
During the Pittsburgh Pirates star's run as one of the best players in the game in the early 2010s — a stretch in which electric centerfielder won an MVP and was an All-Star five times — the hits came so easily it seemed as if they'd never stop.
Then, well, "baseball happened." Pitchers adjusted. The magic he once summoned so regularly waned. He bounced around from city to city and position to position.
Peace arrived in January when McCutchen returned to Pittsburgh on a one-year deal.