Now I say dramatic not in the sense of tension or suspense, but in the sense of “man this dude went from not being able to hit a baseball to ripping the leather off and razing the league.” Now I am not saying that the St. Louis Cardinals should expect the .328/.418/.606 line that Paul Goldschmidt put up over the final 110 games of 2018, but let’s pump the brakes on “disappointment” for a moment.
Yes, it isn’t exactly what we expected to start the season, but nothing is set in stone just yet. Goldschmidt has plenty of time to return to form, just as he and Matt Carpenter did a season ago, and it won’t take nearly as much to bring him back up to where the St.