Aaron Judge garnered 28 of the 30 first-place votes in winning AL MVP honors. One of the two voters who picked Shohei Ohtani instead explained himself.
One of Shohei Ohtani’s MVP voters has explained himself.
Blum’s intent was not to denigrate the greatness of Judge. However, he noted that Ohtani measured up as a top-five pitcher“The common association with Ohtani is Babe Ruth, the original two-way star,” Blum continued. “But even Ruth, for as great as he was in a vastly different era, never had a two-way season quite like Ohtani’s. His closest was in 1919, when Ruth hit 29 homers with a 1.114 OPS, to go along with 133 1/3 innings on the mound with a 2.97 ERA.
Blum disputed the argument that Ohtani should be punished by the under-performance of the Angels, who finished a disappointing 73-89.
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