Just who is the real Mookie Betts? Did Betts’s 2018 MVP season spoil Red Sox Nation and Betts himself? The trajectory of Betts’ career had a momentary glitch in 2017 when his “numbers” were reduced from 2016 when Betts finished second in the MVP race to Mike Trout. The voters were obviously confused regarding the concept of best player and MVP. Redemption came last season for the Red Sox dynamo.
That was then and this is now and Betts is sinking in comparison to 2018. The two most noticeable categories I can glean in metrics is a significant deterioration in Batting Average Balls In Play (BABIP) which is now .