Will anyone dethrone Shohei Ohtani? 🤔 alden_gonzalez on why the 2021 AL MVP might be even better this year (ESPNPlus) ➡️
combined to walk him 11 times in 15 plate appearances). His OPS fell by 86 points after Aug. 1. That might not have been the case if Trout and Rendon were healthy.
Here's another, less tangible thought to consider: Ohtani has now done this for a full season, and that is no small thing. He knows what it looks like and feels like to navigate a complete major league schedule as a two-way player. How to prepare more efficiently. How to structure his bullpen sessions accordingly. How to separate his two jobs in general. As the 2021 season wore on, Angels catchersaw Ohtani become increasingly more acclimated to the rhythms of a two-way role.
"The thing going into this year is he has the experience of doing that," said Stassi."You don't even want to throw any projections on him because you don't know how good this really could be." And so the question is: At full health, in this role, can anybody truly challenge Ohtani for an MVP? Can any single hitter or pitcher prove to be more valuable than a man who, at base level, brings value in ways that have not been replicated in more than a century? Or has Ohtani -- who reported feeling"a lot stronger" at the start of spring training, then had that show up in the form of a firmer fastball on Opening Day -- already graduated into MVP...
All but one of the five main projection tools available on FanGraphs had Ohtani leading the AL in fWAR going into the season, projecting somewhere in the range of 6.1 and 7.1 fWAR. Another, The Bat, has Ohtani bestingfor the major league lead. But Ohtani is not running away from the field in any projection. And others will undoubtedly make a push in 2022. Below, we identified the five men most likely to challenge Ohtani for this year's AL MVP.
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