Why did the Yankees swap Jordan Montgomery for Harrison Bader? How come the Blue Jays didn’t trade for another starting pitcher? ByMattMartell explains in this week’s Five-Tool Newsletter ↓
New York added the best available starting pitcher and improved its bullpen depth without giving away its best prospects.The first-place Brewers sent their four-time All-Star closer to the Padres for their closer, a reclamation project of a pitcher and two prospects. Let’s sort through the chaos.A broadcaster for a minor leaguer? A Hall of Famer for a fence? A shortstop for a turkey? Here are the strangest swaps of all time.Seattle made a big move to acquire Reds starting pitcher Luis Castillo.
Most of us know that Bellinger’s production has fallen considerably, to the point where there was some speculation over the winter that the Dodgers would not tender him a contract for this season. The one thing that I’ve been thinking about is whether this is the most drastic decline for any player who won the MVP. Looking back, there were some players whose last great season was the one in which they won their first and only MVP, and whose performances plummeted only a few years later, such as Jackie Jensen, Al Rosen, Dolph Camilli and George Burns. Those four players, though, were older in their MVP years.
The only former MVP with a comparable cratering is former Twins shortstop Zoilo Versalles, who won the AL MVP in 1965. Versailles was 25 years old and that year led the league in runs, doubles, triples and, like Bellinger, total bases and WAR . Over the next three seasons, Versalles had 459 total bases in 419 games—or 1.1 total bases per game—and was worth –1.4 WAR.
One more quick thing: I didn’t include 1926 NL MVP Bob O’Farrell, a catcher with the Cardinals, because he really was only a full-time player for three or four seasons, and I don’t think you can compare his career to anybody else who has ever won an MVP. The first sentence of his“Bob O'Farrell is quite possibly the only 21-season veteran with an MVP award who is not in the Hall of Fame.
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