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Kansas City Royals: Jorge Soler Comeback Player finalist

The 2018 season statistics were decent, but a broken metatarsal bone in his left foot limited Jorge Soler‘s year to only 61 games with the Kansas City Royals. His response in 2019 was to belt 48 home runs, besting the previous single-season record set by Mike Moustakas by ten, his OPS+ was .922, the WAR finished at 3.7, and he was an iron man playing in all 162 games.

Other accomplishments for Soler was finishing 5th in the league in slugging (.569), 4th in total bases (335), 2nd in RBI’s (117), and 4th in extra-base hits (82).