About two years ago, I wrote an article “Is Yuli Gurriel a HoF-caliber Talent?” after Yuli put up a 3.1 fWAR with a .298/.343/.541 season (131 wRC+). This was an incredible season for him, especially at the age of 35. It made me wonder if you took his age 33-35 seasons and paced them across his MLB career if he would stand up as a Hall of Fame-caliber talent. At the time, showing him coming up roughly with a .296/.333/.486 (.819 OPS) for 2,245 hits, 546 2B, 294 HR, 1,232 RBI (Again, none of this is perfect, but was for discussion, and considering it’s using his decline years after a 2-year gap without baseball, it felt like an under-estimate more than anything)
Admittedly, I thought that 2019 would have been his peak year in the MLB.