STAT LINE .226 / .258 / .332 (248 PA), 4 HR, 24 RBI, 62 OPS+
We all knew a season like this was coming. A 35-year old outfielder with unorthodox mechanics and unique success wasn’t going to be able to play baseball the same way forever. But this is Hunter Pence we’re talking about! He’s not unorthodox, he’s alien. He’s not unique, he’s intergalactic. What we saw in 2018 was that time comes for us all, no matter what galaxy we’re from.
In 2017, he played 134 largely unremarkable games en route to the worst season of his career (84 OPS+).