Max Muncy has quietly put himself in some rare company at the plate, and the company is as star-studded as it gets.
When fans talk about the most dangerous hitters in Major League Baseball, Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani are usually the first names that come up. That makes sense - Judge and Ohtani were last year’s AL and NL MVPs, respectively. But Muncy, Ohtani’s Dodgers teammate, has forced his way into the conversation with an offensive stretch that belongs in the sport’s upper tier.
Since April 30, 2025, Muncy has been one of only nine hitters in baseball with a .900 OPS. That’s the kind of number that puts him in elite offensive territory, right alongside the game’s biggest names.
A big part of the story traces back to his glasses. Muncy began wearing them after an eye doctor diagnosed astigmatism in his right eye. As MLB.com’s Sonja Chen wrote last June, Muncy has said it’s “hard to deny” that his production at the plate started to climb once he put them on.
Chen also noted that Muncy learned he was slightly left-eye dominant after visiting the same optometrist who diagnosed Kiké Hernández with astigmatism last year. He first wore the glasses in a game on April 30, the same day he snapped his career-long home run drought.
The glasses are clearly part of the story behind Muncy’s surge, even if they’re not the whole explanation. What is clear is that his bat has produced like one of the best in baseball over the past year and change.
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