The Creedence Clearwater Poll: Who’s the Second-Best Player in Baseball?

(That is, the fallacy that someone his age having an off year has something to do with his actual ability.)

Right now, after Trout, I might put Lindor. If you look at his career box on Baseball Reference, he's never had an oWAR or dWAR less than 1.2, or a WAR less than 4.6. He's got power, hits for average, draws a decent number of walks, steals bases at an 80%+ success rate, gold-glove defense...I can't see a weakness anywhere. Betts or Yelich is probably #2 among position players, but Lindor's so good.

I'm biased here but Yelich since the 2018 ASB has basically been Barry Bonds

If first-half Mike Trout and second-half Mike Trout were separate players they'd arguably be 1 and 2

In WAR its got to be Scherzer over the last 3 seasons.