Max Muncy Soaking Up Return to ASG After Years of Injuries
Max Muncy Soaking Up Return toThis isn’t Max Muncy’s first All-Star appearance, but it would be easy to think it was.
After all, Muncy hasn’t been an All-Star since 2021, so it’s the first Midsummer Classic since he had children.
It’s also his first time since years of injuries, some series, some nagging but all preventing him from being the best player he can be.
As Muncy detailed to Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register, since that 2021 All-Star Game, he’s suffered:
- A UCL tear in his left elbow on the last day of the 2021 regular season
- A hamstring injury in 2023
- A knee injury in 2025
- “Frustratingly recurring” oblique injuries
And that’s not counting the broken finger he suffered ahead of the 2020 season or the broken wrist he sustained in 2019.
“Maybe you’re just one of these guys who always has these crazy injuries,” Muncy recalled thinking to himself. “I got hit in the wrist in ’19, broke my wrist. I got hit in the hand in ’20 during summer camp, broke my finger. It was like every year there was something and you can’t really control that. It was just kind of the way it went.”
Even earlier this season, he smashed heads with Ildemaro Vargas of the Arizona Diamondbacks at first base just days after he was hit by a pitch in the wrist in a situation similar to that in 2019.
After a long road, though, he’s back, and he’s appreciating what that means.
“It’s coming back from injuries, finding ways to stay healthy – regaining form I guess you’d call it,” Muncy said. “Just getting back to the player that I had been for several years before I started getting hurt. For me, it’s just a recognition of that.”
In 2026, Muncy has been elite at the plate, hitting .259/.354/.488/.842 with 17 home runs and 40 RBIs.
He has a bWAR of 3.2 and is in the top 15% of all hitters in categories like barrel percentage and expected slugging.
Are you excited to watch Max Muncy in the All-Star Game?
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