2018 MVP matrix shows Yelich and Betts likely winners.

Below is a mix of traditional and new stats. Also a mix of totals and averages. Numbers in BOLD indicate leading the "league". Only values from the top ten are shown.

The American League (AL) has a pretty tight competition between Mookie Betts (Red Sox) and Mike Trout (Angels). Also shown are J.D. Martinez (Red Sox), Jose Ramirez (Indians) and Alex Bregman (Astros). Trout had career highs and AL lead in average categories On-Base, OPS, OPS+. However, Tout played only 140 games and that was the tie breaker for me: AL MVP Mookie Betts.

NL was pretty easy: Christian Yelich (Brewers). I almost had to search for competitors but settled on Javier Baez (Cubs) and Nolan Arenado (Rockies). Hey, they face each other in the NL wild card game tonight.

Yelich had more black ink than anyone on the board. During the 2017-2018 off season new Marlins executive Derek Jeter traded two NL MVP: 2017 Giancarlo Stanton and 2018 Christian Yelich. Has anyone else ever done that?

	AL	AL	AL	AL	AL		NL	NL	NL
	Betts	Trout	Martinez	Ramirez	Bregman		Yelich	Baez	Arenado
WAR	10.9	10.2		7.9	6.9	WAR	7.6	6.3	5.6	WAR
oWAR	8.7	9.2	6.8	7.4	7.5	oWAR	7.3	5.3	5.2	oWAR
dWAR	1.8					dWAR				dWAR
	Betts	Trout	Martinez	Ramirez	Bregman		Yelich	Baez	Arenado
BA	.346	.312	.330			BA	.326		.297	BA
On-Base	.438	.460	.402	.387	.394	On-Base	.402			On-Base
SLG	.640	.628	.629	.552	.532	SLG	.598	.554	.561	SLG
OPS	1.078	1.088	1.031	.939	.926	OPS	1.000		.935	OPS
OPS+	186	199	173	150	156	OPS+	164		133	OPS+
TB	333	296	358	319	316	TB	343	336	331	TB
HR	32	39	43	39		HR	36	34	38	HR
RBI			130	105	103	RBI	110	111	110	RBI
	Betts	Trout	Martinez	Ramirez	Bregman		Yelich	Baez	Arenado
RE24	64.18	63.50	73.36	54.23	54.73	RE24	64.19		37.55	RE24
WPA	6.0	4.0	5.4	3.4	5.8	WPA	6.0		3.4	WPA
WPA/LI	6.6	6.5	5.0	5.0	4.6	WPA/LI	5.9	3.4	4.3	WPA/LI
REW	6.0	6.2	6.9	5.1	5.4	REW	6.2		3.4	REW
	Betts	Trout	Martinez	Ramirez	Bregman		Yelich	Baez	Arenado