The greatest forgotten player in baseball has a message for you. And if you didn’t quite pick it up as Fernando Tatis Jr. hit .459 in spring training after a cobweb-shaking 0-for-16 start, or has been hitting .515 on his minor league rehab assignment, the Padres outfielder wants to give it to you directly.
“I feel like I’m going to have enough time, when I come back to the big leagues, to be ready and I’m definitely going to be back to the same player that I was before,” Tatis says (before embarking on his smashing tour of Triple A).
The same player who in 2020–21 won a home run title and two Silver Sluggers, who finished in the top four in MVP voting twice and is the only player in baseball history with 80 homers and 50 steals in his first 273 games? That same guy who was in the “best player in baseball” conversation? That superstar?
