2020 Most Valuable Brewer #5: Jedd Gyorko

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports The votes are in, and you chose Jedd Gyorko as the #5 MVB for Milwaukee in 2020. It would be hard to believe that anyone would have thought Gyorko as one of the five most valuable Brewers coming into the 2020, but with a wRC+ of 118 and the solidifying influence on first base in the final half of the season, he is certainly deserving.

As was the case with many of David Stearns’ acquisitions prior to this season, Gyorko was coming off a poor 2019. Unlike the rest of those acquisitions, Gyorko rebounded. In 2019, Gyorko slashed a paltry .174/.248/.250 producing a 36 wRC+. Coming into his year 31 season, “was Gyorko falling off the proverbial cliff of his baseball…