The last player to go back-to-back as the NL MVP winner was Albert Pujols from 2008-2009. Pujols, in the prime of his career, was one of the most feared hitters in baseball. Christian Yelich was causing that level of fear in opposing pitchers during the second half of the 2018 season. The Milwaukee Brewers are hoping that Yelich can keep that up during 2019 as well.
Yelich, like Pujols was 10 years ago, is in his physical prime for his career. There’s plenty of reasons to believe Yelich has every opportunity to repeat as the best player in the National League.