US columnist pushes Judge for MVP award! Why not Shohei Ohtani because he had “the best offensive season since Bonds”?

Last Updated on 11/17/2022 by てんしょく飯

The 2022 Major League Baseball season has come to a close, and individual awards are being announced on a daily basis. The MVP announcement for both leagues is just around the corner, and the debate over who will win the award is heating up.

Aaron Judge (New York Yankees) was chosen as the winner of the American League award.

There has also been a flurry of opinions from pundits. On November 15, columnist John Grochowski wrote an article for the Chicago Sun-Times in which he reintroduced the finalists for the MVP award in both leagues. In the article, he named Aaron Judge (New York Yankees) as the American League winner.

Judge hit 62 home runs in the regular season, a new American League record, and showed off a batting average that made him the MVP of the American League. Grochowski, citing Barry Bonds, “the greatest baseball player of all time,” gave high marks to the monster slugger from New York, saying, “This was one of the most aggressive seasons since Bonds dominated the pitching staff in the majors.

He also introduced the fact that the WAR calculated by the U.S. data site FanGraphs was 11.4, emphasizing that this is the highest WAR since Bonds recorded 11.9 in 2004. He also said that the 207 wRC+ (a measure of how many runs a hitter has produced against the league average) was “the highest level since Bonds’ 233 wRC+ in 2004.

As for Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Angels), who is considered to be his rival, the report noted that he “will be favored for his two-faced contribution. While praising his 34 home runs, 95 runs batted in, 3.8 WAR, and 142 wRC+ as a hitter, and his 15-9 record, 2.33 earned run average, and 5.6 WAR as a pitcher, the report summarized that “This is Judge’s year.

In addition to Judge and Ohtani, Yordan Alvarez (Houston Astros) is also a finalist in the A-League MVP race, but what will the final result be? The final result will be announced on November 17, 2012, local time.

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