Luke Voit quickly became a sensation for the playoff-bound New York Yankees, garnering AL player-of-the week honors in the final week of the season and slashing a scorching .333/.405/.689 in 30 games to finish 2018. He has turned in an impressive first month of 2019 and shows no signs of falling back to earth: it’s starting to seem like the St. Louis Cardinals got fleeced.
But was it reasonable to see this coming? The St. Louis Cardinals didn’t see many signs of this in his tenure, as Voit slashed just .240/.307/.432 over his Redbird career.