The Angels’ two-way star and the Yankee slugger are unique players having unique seasons. Speaking for myself and everyone else who doesn’t have a ballot, I can say with confidence: this year’s MVP…
This year’s American League Most Valuable Player race is, like any other year, a referendum on the definition of “value.” Is the best player in the league always the most valuable? Should the context of a player’s team, and their place in the standings, matter to the award?
This season has been a coming-out party for Ohtani the pitcher. He’s improved on his 2021 performance in nearly every statistical category, not the least of which is his workload: 24 starts, 141 innings, and counting. He’s pitched more while lowering his ERA , his WHIP , and his walk rate . He has raised his strikeout rate to 12.0 per nine, which leads all starting pitchers .
The idea of Aaron Judge, a New York Yankee challenging Roger Maris’ 61-homer 1961 season, challenges the metaphor of Ohtani-as-Ruth in a way that few can. Judge’s season is effectively combining the best of Maris and Mantle. In addition to his 57 homers, he also leads the AL in runs , RBIs and is hitting .310 – a not-insurmountable nine points shy of the triple crown. He leads everyone in every publicly-available version of WAR: 9.0 according to Baseball Reference and Baseball Prospectus, and 9.7 according to FanGraphs. Not even Ohtani will catch him.
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