While considered a slight disappointment in St. Louis, his peripherals show an optimistic projection for 2020.

“Was the Marcell Ozuna trade a bad deal?” is a really interesting question, and I think the answer to that is the same as whether you think the Christian Yelich deal was a poor one, too. Sure, of course you would argue that it wasn’t, on account of the two top-two MVP finishes.

Yet when you look at both of their careers to that point, there are quite a few alternate realities where it was Ozuna who rocketed up to the top and Yelich remained the solid outfielder. Ozuna had 14.4 career WAR to Yelich’s 18.9 over their first five seasons in a nearly identical amount of games, and Ozuna had a 115 OPS+ in Miami to Yelich’s 121 (více...)