Bold Predictions for the 2019 MLB Season

According to ESPN.com’s Jeff Passan, Mike Trout became the proud owner of the most significant contract in professional sports history Tuesday: 12 decades and $430 million.
What better way to celebrate than with the best period of his career?
Trout has collected more wins above replacement throughout the age of 26 than any hitter in MLB history, based on Baseball Reference. The only real catch is that he has needed a single-season ceiling of 10.5 WAR.
The counter for this catch, however, is that Trout is becoming better with age.
Per his 186 OPS+ in 2017 and his 199 OPS+ in 2018, Trout has been the best hitter in baseball each of the previous two seasons. This is life for a man who walks about as often as he strikes and is also one of the sport’s elite power hitters.
Meanwhile, Trout is still the fastest baserunner in the Los Angeles Angels, and he’s been a readily above average center fielder in three of the previous four years. If not for a bothersome wrist accident, this could have contributed to easily the best year of his career at 2018.
All Trout really needs to perform in 2019 is remain healthy, and also a brand new career high in WAR will probably be as good as his. Could a third American League MVP. . .but that’s not just a daring prediction, can it be?