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- Updated: August 31, 2016
NEW YORK — Curtis Granderson’s optical illusion of an offensive season has blurred the lines between power and futility. Seen years later on the back of his baseball card, it will certainly make some squint.
Look at it one way, and Granderson’s 22 home runs may color him the Majors’ best top-of-the-lineup slugger, totaling more than middle-of-the-order stars Paul Goldschmidt and Joey Votto. But look a column over, and his 38 RBIs not only raise an eyebrow but also challenge some baseball history.
Those numbers — buoyed by his unlikely two-homer performance in New York’s 7-4 win on Tuesday, in a game Granderson didn’t even start — tell that this has been the most all-or-nothing season of his career.
Simply put, few have ever been more productive while being less so.
That all three runs Granderson drove in Tuesday came via the homer — one a pinch-hit …
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