World Series MVP Candidates: Acuña, Riley, Olson Lead the Way

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00:02 Three best prices to win World Series MVP, all hail from Atlanta.

00:07 Ronald Acuna Jr., Austin Riley, Matt Olsen,

00:10 who led Major League Baseball with 54 home runs this year.

00:14 Then a Houston Astro, Yordan Alvarez is alongside Mookie Betts and

00:18 Freddie Freeman, tied for the fourth best numbers at 26 to 1.

00:22 Joe, where do you find value in the individual market that is the World Series

00:27 MVP, with a reminder to everybody, it's not a postseason MVP.

00:32 It's only that World Series in the best of seven that we might see.

00:36 >> Well, if you are of the mind and you're holding tickets for

00:41 Atlanta to win it all, you've got some choices there, don't you?

00:45 You've got Acuna who can overtake a series there.

00:49 You've got Olsen who, jacking 50, almost 60 home runs this year.

00:55 He is a guy that, and the long ball wins in October.

00:58 And you've got some guys that can hit it on that Atlanta team.

01:01 But what happens if Atlanta doesn't go to the World Series?

01:04 What do you do with those tickets then?

01:06 So you have to pick your team, figure out which way it's going.

01:09 If it's Atlanta, it's Acuna for me.

01:12 If it is in fact the Dodgers that end up going,

01:15 then I absolutely think it's going to be Mookie Betts up at the top of that order

01:20 that drives that.

01:22 Freeman's a good choice as well, but I believe Betts is the guy that will make

01:26 that engine roll for the Dodgers if they get there.

01:30 And I think Philadelphia is the other one, and you gotta look,

01:33 do we really trust Harper to do enough here?

01:36 It's much more of a team situation with Philadelphia than individual superstars

01:42 that can elevate, cuz it can be anybody, I think, on that Philadelphia team.

01:47 Not just Harper, he's the biggest name.

01:49 But there's a lot of guys that could end up taking over a World Series on that

01:52 team.

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