Nearly three months ago, our own Tom Verducci called the budding American League MVP debate between Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani “one of the greatest of all time.” Now that we’ve reached the end of the regular season, his words have been proven correct.
In one corner stands a two-way star the likes of which have never been seen. In the other is a 6'7" center fielder who has put up the ninth 60-homer season in MLB history and is polishing up one of the finest hitting showcases of all time. The result is an unfortunate circumstance in which one of these two historic campaigns will be left without any hardware to show for it.
Just about anybody who’s written or talked about the race in recent weeks and months has said that it’s neck-and-neck, and that voters have an excruciatingly difficult choice to make. Except it really isn’t all that close, if you look in the places that hang their hats on accurately predicting the outcomes of such events.
