Hampered by a elbow injury, Muncy struggled in 2022, but having him at full strength will be important to compensate for the key losses from last year’s lineup
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Three key pieces of the lineup that led the majors in runs scored last season won’t be back with the Dodgers this season – Trea Turner, Justin Turner and Gavin Lux.“It’s critical,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of the importance of a bounceback season from Muncy to offset the lineup losses. “This is as good as I’ve seen Max – body and mind – since he first came over here. It really is. And a lot of that is because he’s healthy and he’s just happy.
“You try to just move on. You can’t dwell on anything, whether it’s good or bad,” he said. “If I would have hit .300 last year, I would still have to forget it and move on because that’s last year. Just like if I went 3 for 3 yesterday. That’s yesterday. It does nothing for me today. “The actual swing feels very good, very close to how it was before,” Muncy said. “We are trying to mimic the moves from 2021, arguably my best year. So we’re trying to get back to that – which is what I tried to do last year, but my body just didn’t want to cooperate. We just kept beating the same drum over and over again and it just wasn’t working. But now that I’m healthy and strong and back, it feels like we’re able to imitate it a little bit.
“Yeah, we need Max Muncy to be Max Muncy. We were able to cover that last year. Who knows if we’d be able to cover that this year? We don’t know until we go through it. But the thing is we all believe Max Muncy is going to be Max Muncy. “He’s able to stay through the baseball,” Roberts said. “With that elbow, that extension, he wasn’t able to do that . So now you can see him staying through the ball much better than he did last year.
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