One of the biggest misconceptions in baseball is that everything evens out over the course of a single season. It doesn’t. But over the course of multiple baseball seasons, things do even out. And that’s exactly what’s happening for former Phillies first baseman Carlos Santana in 2019.
To suggest that Santana wasn’t productive in 2018 – his lone season with the Phillies – would be incorrect. He homered 24 times, drove in 86 runs and walked 110 times. But his .229 batting average was uncharacteristic, and not a great way to endear himself to a city that had very mixed opinions on the Phillies decision to sign him to a three-year/$60 million free-agent contract.