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At first base there’s still Baker who might be just as good as Goldschmidt at this point
I don’t think this is even close to accurate despite Goldy’s struggles the first 6 weeks.
The Athletic had an interesting article the other day that the gap between AAA and MLB pitchers is really growing, which means a lot of hitters look really good in AAA, but fail in MLB. Some reasons they think after analysis and talking to players like Matt Carpenter are the increasing levels of quality stuff in the majors, more analytics in the majors for pitchers to gameplay hitters, and a reduction in the org roster size meaning more AAAA types are being dropped.
