AL MVP debates are sure to heat up as the two favorites share the field, but we should be appreciating greatness-- not pitting them against each other.
three days, baseball's two finest players this year will share the field at Yankee Stadium. It's a cause for celebration and mutual appreciation -- because as much asare spurring a debate over who deserves the American League MVP award, they're on the verge of reaching the hallowed sort of level that will tie them together in history, not pit them against one another.
Over the last century, Judge and Witt would comprise only the third duo in the same league to reach double-digit wins. The last time a pair of players in the same league put up 10-win seasons was 1961, when Mickey Mantle and Norm Cash reached the threshold . Before that, it was Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig with the Yankees in 1927.
Well, Judge is about to join the group. During the 2022 season, in which he broke the AL record with 62 home runs, he posted 11.1 WAR. And that's what makes his 2024 season so wild: Judge is better in literally every way as a hitter -- even as he's currently mired in his worst home run-hitting slump this season and among the worst in his career.
Another point that's contextually vital: Witt is doing all this at 24 years old. Judge is 32, and if this is his last 10-win season, there would be no shame in that. Witt is in his third major league season. Only two players in MLB history have recorded a 10-win season within their first three years: Trout in 2012 and Williams in 1941 .As much as his wheels and glove round out his game, Witt's giftedness with the bat puts him in 10-win territory.
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