Soon after the Miami Marlins decided to restock their minor league cupboard with prospects for established players Giancarlo Stanton, Marcell Ozuna, and Dee Gordon, Christian Yelich and J.T. Realmuto made their desire to get traded away public. Yelich was quickly sent to the Milwaukee Brewers for prospects Lewis Brinson, Monte Harrison, Isan Diaz, and Jordan Yamamoto. Realmuto, they held onto for the 2018 campaign.
And Realmuto did not disappoint us. In his fourth full major league season, he set career-highs with 21 home runs and 74 RBI, despite a career-low 125 games (not counting an 11-game look in 2014).