On April 30th, just a month into the 2018 season, the Dodgers announced the worst possible news: Corey Seager will have Tommy John surgery. Many people, myself included, got that knot in their stomach, the one where you know something really really bad just happened and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it. You know what I’m talking about?
That feeling seemed to linger around the Dodgers for a while. The quality of at-bats seemed to diminish immediately, the top of the order was indefinitely weaker and, without Max Muncy, the Dodgers would have been in a world of trouble as their superstar bat just went down for the whole year.