Max Muncy's switch to glasses helped save his Dodgers career

Max Muncy needed a change.

The Los Angeles Dodgers' slugger was a month into the 2025 season, was batting .180, and hadn't hit a home run yet.

That's when he decided to put on eyeglasses.

USA Today's Bob Nightengale reported earlier this season that Muncy played 28 games without the specs, then put them on.

The first game Muncy put on the glasses was April 30. He hit a triple and a home run.

And from that point on, Muncy was a .268 hitter with 19 home runs and a scorching .969 OPS.

To point out the painfully, super duper obvious: It's important for a hitter to be able to see clearly.

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Muncy already has had quite the baseball journey. He looked like he was heading to being a fringe player, but then when the Dodgers acquired him, Muncy unlocked his swing and became a feared slugger.

He has 14 home runs in his postseason career, which is more than anyone in the history of the Dodgers has ever hit.

Not bad for a guy the Oakland Athletics didn't even want to keep around.

But this season, it really did seem like it was all crashing down. Muncy couldn't put anything together.

Then he put glasses on his face, saw the world in a new way, and proceeded to slug just as well as he ever has.

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