Monthly Blog

At the start of the 2019 MLB season 2 players are really standing out, the first player I will be talking about is Cody Bellinger. Entering the final day of April, Cody Bellinger has had one of the best starts in baseball history. With his 14th home run on Sunday off of Pittsburgh’s Trevor Williams, Bellinger tied Albert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez for the most home runs hit before May 1. On Monday, Bellinger became the first player in MLB history to have 37 RBI before May 1, with his RBI single off of San Francisco’s Tony Watson. He also now is the sole record holder for two more early season records, most hits (44) and most total bases (96) before May 1. Bellinger is on pace to win NL MVP of the 2019 baseball season batting .434/.508/.906 with a 267 OPS, all of which rank first in MLB. But another player is making a run for Bellingers MVP candidacy is Christian Yelich from the Milwaukee Brewers. Christian Yelich also tied the record with his 14th homer, a solo shot off Met’s Noah Syndergaard on Saturday. The home run put Yelich in some rare company he’s just the sixth MLB player to rake in four home runs over the first four games of the season, joining the likes of Trevor Story, Chris Davis, Nelson Cruz, Mark McGwire, and Willie Mays. No defending MVP had pulled off the feat so far neither had any player in Brewer’s history. Christian Yelich has been nothing short of spectacular to start the season, and really going back to the end of last season too. He is swinging such a hot home run bat that he is on a historic pace early in the season. With these 2 studs putting on a show game in and out its gonna be tough to see which player will end up winning the NL MVP.