On July 29, Jorge Soler was hitting .192 for a fourth-place Royals team that was going nowhere fast. Three months later, he's the World Series MVP.
Soler took home the prize by hitting .300 with three home runs and six RBIs over six games, leading the team in homers, RBIs and extra-base hits. His heroics stand as the crown jewel for a front office that completely revamped its outfield out of necessity at the trade deadline, which ended up propelling Atlanta to its first World Series title in 26 years.
Soler, NLCS MVP Eddie Rosario, Adam Duvall and Joc Pederson were all added at the end of July to help cover an outfield that had lost Ronald Acuña Jr.