Alvarez is less-known than other star hitters — or even other Astros

Among the top 10 in batting run value for all MLB batters and members of the Houston Astros since the 2019 season, with Google Trends search traffic relative to Yordan Alvarez (who has an index of 1.0) since June 2019

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Indices are scaled as multipliers — so Aaron Judge got 8.63 times as much U.S. search traffic as Alvarez, etc.

Chart: Neil Paine/The MessengerSource: Baseball-Reference, FanGraphs, Google TrendsCreated with Datawrapper