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Dodgers: Assessing Will Smith’s Spring Struggles with the Bat

Will Smith has had a rough spring. The Los Angeles Dodgers presumed starting catcher for 2020 owns a .143 BA through nine games. Exhibition games do not always correlate to regular season successes or failures, but could this be a continuation of Smith’s September and October downturn?

A small regular season sample size, less than 200 plate appearances, does not provide enough information to predict long term trends for Smith. Neither does a few games in February nor March.

Let’s be honest, his scorching August had Dodger fans dreaming of their own homegrown version of J.