Nasty Details of Luke Voit's 2019 Injury Reveal Why He Couldn't Play Through the Pain

If you hopped off the Luke Voit Train because of a feckless second half in 2019, we implore you to reconsider your stance.

Voit, whose first half was a wrecking ball and whose second half was tainted by several stop-and-start sequences where it just didn't look like he was able to properly unleash himself, was hampered by a sports hernia that sounds... even nastier upon reexamination.

Per recent reports, Voit had to have ligaments on both sides of his stomach reattached (!) after battling assorted core muscle sorenesses for much of 2019.

After multiple MRIs, a Philadelphia specialist assessed Voit bluntly following the 2019 season preceding these surgical repairs. In the burly first baseman's words, “He told me I tore everything down there."

Voit was first knocked out in July by what was called an "abdominal strain," and following his return later in the summer, he landed back on the IL with what was formally determined to be a sports hernia, which was the worry from the start.

He returned before the ALDS, but was ineffective. He wasn't on the active roster for that series.

Voit believes he lost five to 10 pounds and is in better shape than ever this time around. Based on what we learned this weekend, though, it seems fairly impossible to be in worse shape than the pain-filled disaster he found himself battling through last season.