If you hit 400 home runs, accumulated 40 WAR, won an MVP, and still had the most bat speed in baseball, how open would you be to change? Giancarlo Stanton, despite having by far the worst season of his career with an 89 wRC+ and .191 batting average, has a track record to rightfully express that feeling. Stanton recently said that he’ll hit the lab and consider multiple changes (the headline promises “a lot”), but that they’d be “minor [tweaks], but the right ones.”
As recently as 2022, he still had a first half where he looked like himself, so it’s a good reminder that this is a guy who was good not so long ago, and still has great physical tools.