Comparing any player’s age 35-38 seasons to what they accomplished at a younger age is a fool’s exercise. It’s akin to saying ‘that guy doesn’t run nearly as well when he wears his scuba flippers,’ or wondering ‘why can’t he dunk with Danny DeVito sitting on his shoulders drinking a chianti?’
Getting older is kinda cool sometimes, but not normally for your baseball stats. Things hurt, things creak, things tweak and reek and wreak. Getting older as a hitter is like spilling blood in the ocean, too, with pitchers swarming like sharks once they begin to find any weakness in said hitter’s swing.