There have still been a lot of strikeouts, and an extreme rate of swing-and-miss.
Key at-bats that came up empty, and a couple familiar bouts of early-season adversity.
No, through three weeks of this new campaign, Max Muncy hasn’t rediscovered the peak potency of his prime years with the Dodgers, when he was a two-time All-Star and three-time MVP vote-getter.
But, for the first time since his 2021 elbow injury, and the two-year plunge in production that followed it, the 33-year-old slugger is starting to feel more like his old self at the plate again.