Plus, Shohei Ohtani for AL MVP and a no decision for NL Cy Young?
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The volume of debate over MLB awards is exhausting, so what is really called for here is the opinion of someone who doesn’t even have a vote on five of them. These are just hypothetical ballots — how I would vote if I had these ballots. When deciding how I would vote on MVP and Cy Young Awards, I start with the rational metrics, looking at Wins Above Replacement totals on both FanGraphs and Baseball Reference, and adjust from there. At the end of the day, I’m more comfortable with what an objective system built off actual run values says than with what my intuition or eyeballs say, which are subject to all manner of biases.
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