Since winning the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 2022, Paul Goldschmidt struggled to find the same groove at the plate, his numbers declining in each of the past two seasons with the Cardinals.

Some simply said the seven-time All-Star was succumbing to Father Time, making it unlikely that we would ever see the same ferocious hitter who tortured big-league pitchers for the previous decade. Goldschmidt’s move to New York seems to have reinvigorated him: He entered the weekend with a .323/.380/.471 slash line and a 141 OPS+ , doing his part for the first-place Yankees in 2025.

The lesson? Sometimes a change of scenery is all it takes to help a player turn things around. There are plenty of players having their own difficulties this season – or in some cases, for the pas

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