Anthony Rendon finished the 2019 campaign with a .319/.412/.598 line, (career highs in all three stats), while tying his previous career-high in doubles (set in 2018) with 44 total, and setting a new career-high in home runs with 34, with a career-best 126 runs driven in, and his 117 runs scored a career high as well, in a career-best 7.0 fWAR season.
Not bad. But was it an MVP-worthy season?
“Look at what he’s done,” Rendon’s manager, Davey Martinez, told reporters after the third baseman went 1 for 4 with a double, a run scored, and a walk in his final game of the year, (leaving him with 80 walks vs 86 Ks in 646 plate appearances on the season).