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Ryan Zimmerman will face an important season in 2019

Who exactly is Ryan Zimmerman?

In 2016, the Washington Nationals first baseman hit .218 with just 15 home runs as injuries limited him to 115 games — remarkably the most he’d played in three years. The next season, Zimmerman got off to a blistering start and never looked back, earning his second All-Star nod while posting a career-best .930 OPS.

Zimmerman fell back to Earth in 2018 and was greeted by a right-oblique strain just one month into the campaign, costing him 58 games on the disabled list. He finished the year hitting a modest .