Cody Bellinger couldn’t have asked for a better start to his major league career.
Bellinger splashed onto the scene in 2017 with a 39-home run rookie campaign, giving the Dodgers two consecutive NL Rookie of the Year award winners. After a somewhat down season in 2018, Bellinger was fully unleashed at the plate with a 47 home run season in 2019. In a tight race for the NL MVP with the reigning winner in Christian Yelich, it was Bellinger that became the first Dodger to win the MVP since Clayton Kershaw in 2014.
It’s been six years since Bellinger was named as the NL MVP. He has since fallen into the depths of baseball Hell with injury plagued seasons in 2021 and 2022, ultimately leading the Dodgers to make the tough choice in non-tendering him. After a bounce-back 2023 campaign with the

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