Mookie Betts is the 2020 National League Most Valuable Player.
That's not literally true. Atlanta's Freddie Freeman won the award Thursday, earning 28 out of 30 first-place votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Freeman was a justifiable choice. But Betts would have been the more justifiable one by the stats and, essentially, in light of the big picture.
Betts vs. Freeman By the Numbers
For context, let's compare Betts' and Freeman's 2020 stats:
Betts: .292/.366/.562, 16 HR, 3.4 Baseball Reference WAR (rWAR)
Freeman: .