Player of the Decade for each MLB team

In eight seasons with Arizona, Goldschmidt had three top-3 NL MVP finishes, won three Gold Gloves and four Silver Sluggers, and posted an impressive .930 OPS.

A superb hitter throughout the decade, Freeman hit .293 with an .883 OPS, cranked out 227 home runs, and finished top-8 in NL MVP voting three times.

Machado hit 162 homers and 197 doubles for the Orioles, made All-Star teams four times, and won two Gold Gloves.

Betts has finished top-8 in AL MVP voting in each of the last four seasons (including winning it in 2018), has also won a Gold Glove each of the last four years, and owns a career .301 batting average with an .893 OPS.

You can’t go wrong with Kris Bryant here either, but Rizzo’s extra three seasons give him the edge. He has made three All-Star teams, won three Gold Gloves, and has hit between 23-32 homers in each of the last seven years.

The 2014 AL Rookie of the Year, Abreu has connected on 179 homers in six seasons and that productivity has helped earn him two Silver Sluggers.

The 2010 NL MVP, Votto hit .311 during the decade and actually walked more times (970) than he struck out (965).

Francisco Lindor was also in consideration, but Kluber gets the nod for his more lengthy tenure in the decade. He won the AL Cy Young in 2014 and 2017, and led the AL in wins twice, ERA once, and WHIP once.

Setting the standard at defense playing the hot corner, Arenado has won a Gold Glove in each of his first seven seasons while hitting .295 with 227 homers.

Cabrera won back-to-back AL MVPs in 2012 and 2013, the first of which he also won the Triple Crown with a .330 batting average, 44 home runs, and 139 RBIs.

One of the faces of the current MLB, Altuve won AL MVP in 2017, has won three AL batting titles, and has hit 128 home runs and stolen 254 bases in nine years.

Cain finished with at least a .300 average in three of his seven years with Kansas City, was the ALCS MVP in 2015, and finished third in AL MVP voting that same year. Alex Gordon finishes a close second.

Perhaps the most obvious choice, Trout won three AL MVPs, finished second another four times, and has hit .305 with a 1.000 OPS, 285 homers, and 200 stolen bases. ESPN wrote on how he has already surpassed Derek Jeter in career WAR despite being just 28 years old.

It was an outstanding decade for Kershaw who won three NL Cy Young awards, made eight All-Star teams, and went 156-61 with a 2.31 ERA and 2,179 strikeouts.

The 2017 NL MVP, Stanton became one of the game’s premier sluggers with the Marlins. He hit 59 dingers in his MVP season and 267 altogether in eight years with Miami.

Braun won NL MVP in 2011, finished runner-up the following season, and hit .294 with 241 homers and 166 steals for the decade.

Brian Dozier was a close second, but Mauer was still a very good player at the start of the decade. He hit over .300 four times in the 2010s, made three All-Star Games, and won a Gold Glove in 2010.

The two-time reigning NL Cy Young winner, deGrom was also the NL Rookie of the Year in 2014 and has gone 66-49 with a 2.62 ERA over his first six seasons.

While he spent just the first four years of the decade with the Yankees, Cano was one of the league’s best players at the time. He finished no lower than sixth in AL MVP voting during that time in which he batted .312 with 117 homers and also won two Gold Gloves.

Semien hit 67 home runs from 2015-18, but he truly broke out last season when he hit 33 and finished third in AL MVP voting. Matt Chapman was also in consideration despite playing just three seasons.

Hamels has three top-8 NL Cy Young finishes in the decade for Philadelphia and never posted an ERA over 3.64 for the Phillies from 2010-15.

McCutchen won NL MVP honors in 2013, finished third on two other occasions, and made five straight All-Star teams from 2011-15 with Pittsburgh.

Headley led the NL with 115 RBIs in 2012, a season in which he finished fifth in NL MVP voting, and won both a Gold Glove and Silver Slugger.

Close call between Posey and Madison Bumgarner (and his postseason heroics), but Posey was the top catcher in the game for much of the decade. He was named 2010 NL Rookie of the Year, 2012 NL MVP, won three World Series rings, and hit .302 for the decade.

Starting off the decade with an AL Cy Young in 2010, Hernandez saw his numbers fall off in the latter part of the decade, but he went 67-51 with a 2.78 ERA from 2010-14.

For the decade, Wainwright went 116-71 with a 3.48 ERA, won a Gold Glove and a Silver Slugger, and had three top-3 finishes in NL Cy Young voting.

Longoria hit a grand total of 201 homers for the Rays between 2010-17 and took home two Gold Gloves.

Beltre was extremely productive in the late part of his career with Texas. In eight seasons, he won three Silver Sluggers, three Gold Gloves, and finished top-7 in AL MVP voting four times.

Bautista was an All-Star each season from 2010-15, he led the AL in homers both of the first two seasons of the decade, and hit 272 altogether from 2010-17.

A plethora of options here other than Scherzer (Anthony Rendon, Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper), but Scherzer was absolutely dominant from 2015-19. He won the NL Cy Young in 2016 and 2017, and has gone 79-39 with a 2.74 ERA and 1,371 strikeouts in his Washington tenure.