There was no indication that he had any sort of serious issues. Freddie Freeman did in 2020 and then won the MVP.
More Fangraphs numbers. Total WAR.
Freeman. 3,7 (4th in MLB for 1B)
Goldschmidt 3.6 (5th in MLB)
Hoskins who someone else mentioned and who is a butcher at 1B and who missed lots of time this year. 2.4
Rizzo 1.4
Bell 0.7.
Are you seriously going to tell me that Bell is going to get $20 million a year with that type of WAR?
Theres nothing to support he didnt have a serious issue. And even non-serious bouts of covid have lingering issues after. Almost 5 months of performance outweighs the first three weeks coming off covid
