In his most recent article for the Athletic, MLB insider, Jayson Stark awarded Dodgers outfielder Cody Bellinger the “NL LVP” award. That is the Least Valuable Player award. Stark based the honor on Cody’s Wins Above Replacement numbers in 2021, per Baseball-Reference.
Baseball-reference also tells us Bellinger has been worth minus-1.7 Wins Above Replacement! And that makes him the least valuable player in the National League — literally. If we’re going to use WAR to decide who’s most valuable, might as well use it the other way around, too, right?