DENVER – Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that Charlie Blackmon was underrated until about a year-and-a-half ago.

Depending on how you feel about accounting for Coors Field and hitting numbers, his fifth-place finish in MVP voting last season suggests he is still a bit underrated.

Debuting to little fanfare in 2013, he burst onto the scene with an incredibly hot April in 2014 and cooled off for most of the rest of the season, leaving many to wonder if the early production was a bit fluky.

But he proved the doubters wrong over the next three campaigns, improving in nearly every facet of his game each year.

Then, early in 2018, it was announced that his hard work would be rewarded with a six-year extension worth up to $108 million.

Since then, things have been… OK.