Stock up, stock down at Rays spring training

BRADENTON, FLORIDA - MARCH 17: Austin Meadows #17 of the Tampa Bay Rays runs home after hitting a two-run home run off of Mitch Keller of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the third inning of a spring training game on March 17, 2021 at LECOM Park in Bradenton, Florida. (Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)

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PORT CHARLOTTE, FLORIDA – MARCH 01: Austin Meadows #17 of the Tampa Bay Rays looks on during the first inning against the Minnesota Twins during a spring training game at Charlotte Sports Park on March 01, 2021 in Port Charlotte, Florida. (Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images)

Stock Up: Austin Meadows

With regards to the Austin Meadows comeback player of the year campaign: so far, so good.

We really weren’t kidding about the Austin Meadow comeback SZN folks pic.twitter.com/Gg6mESMloz
— RaysColoredGlasses (@RaysColoGlasses) March 17, 2021

In 26 plate appearances this spring, Meadows is absolutely mashing with four homers, seven runs batted in, and an OPS north of 1.000. After having a season largely derailed in 2020 due to a midseason core injury leading to a greatly disappointing playoff run, Meadows is looking to return to the form that made him an All-Star in 2019.

Small sample sizes remain small, but this spring Meadows looks more like himself than he has in over a year and the results show as much.