MLB Stars at a Crucial Juncture: Who Will Rise from the Ashes and Who Will Fade Away?
Instead, they went the other way. Arenado’s power almost completely disappeared; he played 152 games but produced just 16 home runs and 39 total extra-base hits – he had 30 and 73, respectively, in a similar number of plate appearances in 2022 – and the lowest OPS+ of his career (aside from the pandemic season of 2020).
Goldschmidt hit 22 homers, but his strikeout rate soared, his walk rate plummeted, and his on-base percentage was an astounding 102 points lower than his MVP season. Instead of a bounce-back, Cardinals fans watched a bottoming out.



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