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Christian Yelich, not Mike Trout, is MLB's best player -- and the numbers show it

Mike Trout is not the best player in baseball anymore.

I know -- that reads like blasphemous clickbait. After all, Trout already has produced more career WAR (72.8) than Larry Walker, Derek Jeter, Tony Gwynn and Ernie Banks. He already has collected more top-two MVP finishes (seven) than Hank Aaron, Pete Rose, Ken Griffey Jr. and Chipper Jones -- combined. But Trout is not the best player in baseball entering the 2020 season.

Christian Yelich is. At least he has been for the past season-and-a-half.

Yelich made the 2018 NL All-Star team as a reserve with a batting line (.