10 biggest snubs from MLB website Top 100 Players Right Now

While Anderson did have his share of struggles in last year’s postseason, there’s no denying he’s been as dominant a reliever as anyone since joining Tampa Bay. In 37.2 regular-season innings with the Rays, he has a 1.43 ERA, microscopic 0.58 WHIP, and 67 strikeouts.

A partially torn patellar tendon limited Alvarez to just two outings in 2020, but his 2019 rookie season was absurd. Named AL Rookie of the Year in 2019, he hit .313 with 27 homers and a 1.067 OPS in 369 plate appearances.

While 2019 was an awful year for Burnes, 2020 was the opposite, and he also was excellent out of the bullpen in 2018. Last year, he finished sixth in NL Cy Young voting as he had a 2.11 ERA and struck out 88 batters in 59.2 innings.

Finishing ninth in NL Cy Young voting in 2020, the 25-year-old Gallen has gotten off to a great start in his major league career. Through his first 27 starts, he owns a 2.78 ERA while striking out 10.5 batters per nine innings.

In his first year (and second in the majors) with San Diego in 2020, Grisham hit 10 home runs, stole 10 bases, and won a Gold Glove. He was tied for eighth in WAR among NL position players according to Baseball-Reference.

Guerrero Jr. hasn’t yet reached his otherworldly expectations in his two MLB seasons, but his age-22 year could be his breakout. He was pretty much the consensus #1 prospect heading into 2019, and he did have a 115 OPS+ in 2020.

Yes, Hayes only has 24 games to his name in the big leagues (all coming last year), but he brought hope to an otherwise downtrodden franchise. The 41st-ranked prospect according to MLB.com entering 2020, Hayes hit .376 with a 1.124 OPS in his brief time with Pittsburgh while playing strong defense at the hot corner.

Hernandez finished 11th in AL MVP voting last year, took home his first Silver Slugger, and hit .289. He does strike out a lot and hit just .235 the previous two years, so voters may have been skeptical whether he could be just as productive in 2021 (he did hit 48 homers from 2018-19).

Expected to be a two-way player again in 2021, Ohtani is still just 26 years old and just couldn’t get it going at the plate in 2020. In 2018-19 though, he owned an excellent .883 OPS and did pitch to a 3.31 ERA in 10 starts in 2018.

After a very solid rookie year in 2019 (3.81 ERA, 1.23 WHIP in 21 starts), Plesac took it to another level in the truncated 2020 season. While he made just eight starts, but in those, he allowed just 6.2 hits and one walk while striking out 9.3 batters per nine innings.