Last year, during the abbreviated 2020 season, Matt Olson finished with a .195 batting average. The first baseman still hit for some power, placing Top 10 in AL in homers, but he struck out too much and his overall batting line was barely league-average.
“To put it bluntly, I stunk last year,” Olson said this spring.
Imagine what a best-base bounce-back might look like for the 27-year-old slugger. Now add 10% to that and you’ve got what he’s doing so far this month.
The lefty is tearing the cover off the ball, just like we’ve seen him do before and knew he would again.