Who is DJ LeMahieu?
If you take only his 2019 stats, he’s one of the elite contact hitters in baseball who finally put a power game together. Career highs in ISO and SLG, and 11 more home runs than his previous career-best pushed him from mediocre leadoff hitter into legitimate offensive force.
He’s made a career of inconsistency, with two seasons of 130 wRC+ or better, and four full seasons with a wRC+ below 100. The key to his 2020, and thus the key to what would likely be his only chance at a big free agent deal, was replicating his power and avoiding the decline to below-average offense unlike the end of his time in Colorado.