Voters and others can invent all sorts of rationale for picking Judge or Ohtani, and they already have.
the newsletter discussed the Most Valuable Player debate between supporters of the Yankees’ Judge and the Angels’ Ohtani, there was about a month to go in the season and I looked forward to all of the “well, interesting” arguments we were going to hear. I haven’t been disappointed.
Jim added: “The bottom line in this space: Could they win – or lose – a division title or a playoff spot without you? But the beauty/agony of the process is that each voter has his or her own notion of what an MVP should be.” Posnanski proposed creating a new award: “You would call it The Shohei Award. And every year, you would give it to Shohei Ohtani, because there simply isn’t anyone else in his species.”
Awards are one way we tell the story of a season. A way we record who made it different and memorable. A way we tell future generations you should have seen. A way to say this man owned this year. Not this decade or this era, not who changed the game forever. Just who was the player you couldn’t miss this season.
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