This comes as little surprise to Atlanta Braves fans who could clearly see that Freddie Freeman wasn’t the same player down the stretch.
Freddie started dealing with bone spurs in his right elbow in early September — as far as we know, he may have been dealing with them even longer.
Being the leader that Freddie is, he downplayed just how bad the injury was during the regular season and in the postseason, but just looking at the numbers it seems pretty obvious they were affecting him at the plate.
The Atlanta Braves first baseman was in the thick of the NL MVP conversation when he entered the month of September.