It’s always frustrating losing good, home-grown players to free agency especially when they’re well-liked and have put up huge numbers for the club. Cody Bellinger meets this criteria for some and doesn’t for others. He burst onto the scene in 2017 while arriving a year early by most accounts. He didn’t disappoint. He crushed 39 homers that year and on the way to winning the Rookie of the Year award, was selected to the All-Star game and finished in the top 10 of MVP voting. Those 39 homers came in just 132 games and 480 AB’s. He looked like a future Gold Glove first baseman and a generational player.
The End of an Era Again
