Every player in baseball wants to get off to a hot start. If you rack up a bunch of hits in the first few games of the season, it can build confidence, especially in a young player. Conversely, it isn’t ideal to start off a season slowly. You want to get that first hit out of the way quickly, and the more at bats a player goes without getting it, the more it weighs on him.
So, by the time Cardinals shortstop Masyn Wynn got to 0-20 on the 2025 season, it must have felt like he was dragging an anchor with him every time he came to the plate.