Eric Thames #9 of the Washington Nationals rounds the bases after hitting a home run against the Atlanta Braves at Nationals Park on September 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)
Unfortunately the 2020 season didn’t go as Eric Thames (or the Washington Nationals) had planned. As the slugger signs in Japan he hopes to regain his power stroke.
In a perfect world Eric Thames would have split time with Ryan Zimmerman at first base during the 2020 season and hit twenty-plus home runs. In the pandemic world, neither of those things happened.