He was the most consistent batter in the National League, but the injury that kept him out of the Brewers’ final 18 games may have led to him missing out on a second NL MVP award.
Cody Bellinger of the Los Angeles Dodgers was chosen as the National League’s MVP for 2019 instead of Yelich, who earned the 2018 award as the Brewers earned home field advantage for the NL playoffs.
Despite missing the final 18 games of 2019 with a broken knee cap, Yelich still led all of Major League Baseball with a 1.100 OPS and a .671 slugging percentage.
He led the NL in both batting average (.329, his second consecutive year winning that title in the NL) and on-base percentage (.429).
In 130 games, Yelich was sixth in all of MLB with 44 home runs. In the NL, he was third in total WAR (wins above replacement) in the NL with 7.1, first in offensive WAR (7.3), third in stolen bases (30) and first in runs created (150).
All this played a major role in the Brewers making the postseason for the second straight year, just the second time in franchise history the team made back-to-back postseasons.