Last Updated on 09/28/2022 by てんしょく飯
On September 26, local time, Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees started in the “No. 1, right field” position against the Toronto Blue Jays in hostile territory. He gave up one hit, but the expected No. 61 will not be available until the next game. The team lost 2-3 after 10 extra innings.
Aaron Judge has a hard time getting No. 61.
With only nine games remaining for both the Yankees and Los Angeles Angels, the high-level MVP battle between Judge and Shohei Ohtani, who has been the center of the conversation in the second half of the season, is coming to a close.
The Yankees have already clinched a playoff berth and are 7.5 games behind the second-place Toronto Blue Jays, which means that they are very likely to win the regional championship for the first time in three years. The Yankees are currently leading the A-League in home runs, and are just one away from tying Roger Maris’ 1961 A-League season record (61).
However, Ohtani is not far behind Judge in terms of records. Ohtani, who won the A-League MVP award last season, has continued to impress with his two-fisted performance this season. In a recent game against the Minnesota Twins, he became the first player to reach 200 strikeouts in both Japan and the United States. He once again made history by becoming the first player in Major League Baseball to achieve 200 strikeouts and 30 home runs. However, the Angels, who finished third in the West Division, missed the playoffs for the eighth consecutive year and also lost for the seventh consecutive year.
Although the MVP is favored by Judge because of the emphasis on WAR as a criterion, which quantifies how much a player contributed to the team’s victory, reporter Noah Trister, in “The Washington Post,” said the following. “According to Baseball-Reference’s WAR, Judge is at 9.9 coming into Sept. 25 and Ohtani is at 9.0 (9.2 as of Sept. 26), so these two are pretty close.”
This is not the only time such a high-level battle has plagued voters; there have been examples in the past, and the media cited several examples as high-level, meaty battles in the past.
One of the most recent examples is the battle for the 2012 A-League MVP between Miguel Cabrera (Detroit Tigers) and Mike Trout (Angels).
In a race between “traditional stats and new-age stats,” Triple Crown winner Cabrera won the MVP award, but the voting was close. Trout, though a rookie, posted 10.5 WAR but finished a distant second. The following year, Trout finished second to Cabrera again, but he went on to win the MVP three more times (2014, ’16, and ’19).”
Trout’s WAR was much higher than Cabrera’s in 2012, but the impact of the Triple Crown, a “traditional statistic,” outweighed the WAR numbers.
The battle between Ohtani and Judge is at a higher level than we have ever seen before, and although Judge has the upper hand in WAR, which one will win the MVP award? We will keep an eye on the remaining nine games.
Nasty splitter from Shohei Ohtani. 4 scoreless innings. 5 strikeouts and no walks. pic.twitter.com/IqEoS9RaAC
— Brent Maguire (@bmags94) September 18, 2022
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