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Originally Posted by Trueblue
When you're talking about using the NL OPS leader to close out games or help lead your rotation, you have to feel silly to suggest any other player as a serious candidate. Should be unanimous again.
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There just really isn't anyone in the NL that has eye-popping stats that can compare to Ohtani outside of maybe Schwarber. But his biggest knock (aside from his BA) is that he is also a DH. If Schwarber was playing passable RF, he'd have a better (albeit still very long) shot at MVP, but since he's a DH and Ohtani has his stats PLUS pitching, no shot.
PCA simply doesn't have the offensive numbers to be MVP, no matter how much of a wizard he is in CF. No one is winning MVP with a BA (voters still care about BA) barely above .250 and a sub-.800 OPS. If PCA could have put up a 40/40 season like he was on pace to earlier this year, that might have at least netted him a couple 1st place votes, but he'll be lucky to get 30/30 at this rate. He's OPS'ed .500 the past month. yikes
The ONLY question left about the NL MVP race is if Shohei will win unanimously again.