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Hochman: After his 'least-consistent year,' Goldschmidt needs a Mike Schmidt year in '20

For the Cardinals to make the playoffs in 2020, the guy in 2019 who had 34 homers with an .821 OPS must hit better.

It’s a little weird to put Paul Goldschmidt in the same boat as Harrison Bader and Matt Carpenter (and Yadier Molina and Paul DeJong) for 2020. But the “S.S. Hindsight” is for those who underachieved, regardless of the numbers achieved.

“That was my least-consistent year I’ve had in the big leagues,” Goldschmidt said Monday during a media session at Winter Warm-Up. That was the first sentence of a 287-word quote, which was part-apology, part-soliloquy, part-visionary for 2020.