Entering play Monday, Freddie Freeman was batting .306 with eight doubles, two home runs and 19 RBIs. But his average had dipped to .259, requiring some work to raise it.
On the surface, it might not have looked like much of a slump. To star Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman, however, his performance through much of April was certainly starting to feel like one. Entering play Monday, Freeman was batting .306 with eight doubles, two home runs and 19 RBIs. He had a .861 on-base-plus-slugging percentage and 142 OPS+ . Those were drops from his first two seasons in L.A., in which he finished top-five in MVP voting both times.
“Just been kind of doing really really slow, soft swings in BP, and then let the adrenaline of the game take the swing a little bit harder. Things the last week have been a lot better.' It’s a welcome sight for the Dodgers, who haven’t often seen their $162 million first baseman struggle since arriving in March 2022. “He’s gonna come out of it,” manager Dave Roberts said this weekend. “But there’s some sadness when he’s in a dark place.
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