2022 Yankees Least Valuable Player: Aroldis Chapman

The term “value” is tossed around an awful lot in the baseball world. The most important individual award even has the word in its name. The exact meaning of it is heavily disputed, however, and there are a lot of ways to interpret it, all of which can be at least partially correct.

Thinking about value in the negative direction is no different. This year’s Yankees least valuable player is not the most illustrious award, but someone has to dejectedly hoist the trophy. Considering all angles as best as I could, the (un)lucky winner is Aroldis Chapman.

He may not have been the absolute worst player of the year for New York, but there had to be at least some kind of criteria to be met in order…