I posted about this before, but going through the ‘62 Mets season made Richie Ashburn retire despite being perfectly healthy coming off a season in which he hit. 306 with a .424 OBP and only 425 hits away from 3000 at age 35. At that point, he was no HOF shoo in but 3000 would have made him one.
If that can have that kind of effect on a seasoned vet, not hard to imagine that going into this clubhouse, when Vargas was probably on some sort of cloud 9 as a young Dodger, probably did f*** his head up. Getting your feet swept out from under you like that could literally lead to a depression spell. Conversely, it was probably like getting called up to the bigs for the first time for Kopech. Hopefully Vargas can regroup in the offseason