Ohtani Favored for NL MVP at -550: Is the Award Wrapped Up?

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00:00And Shohei Ohtani, DRS, is a minus 550 favorite to win his second consecutive National League MVP award.

00:07Yeah, and I take a look at him, and it's almost like you feel more confident that he's at minus 550

00:11than you do Aaron Judge at a minus 1,300 price because of what we're starting to talk about

00:16and how this season is going to play out.

00:18The Dodgers, you know, are battling for first place.

00:21The expectations are they're going to be in first place here the rest of the way.

00:24But also, you know what helps Shohei Ohtani even a little bit more?

00:27Let's just say the Dodgers have big games coming down the stretch in August and September,

00:31and they didn't run away with it, Ben, as a 20-game lead on September 15th, and you shut it down

00:35because that means when Ohtani is starting to extend himself on the mound, going one inning now

00:39after post-All-Star break back up to like five innings, and let's just say he's getting really good starts

00:44in August and September in meaningful games, he's going to skyrocket

00:47because the one thing about Ohtani is I know you can't predict the future,

00:51but do we see like, man, what happened to Ohtani last 45 days hitting 125 at the plate with one home run?

00:56That's not happening.

00:57He's going to steal a ton of bases.

00:58He's pitching now, and you always know he's going to be the leader somewhere around there

01:01in the RBI market when he bats first as sort of a hindrance,

01:04but the home run market, he'll be right up there as well.

01:07That minus 550 price right now probably still is a steal, but as Ben pointed out,

01:10we've been telling you, the plus 140s, the plus 120s, the minus 200s, they're going to be gone.

01:15And the same thing with that minus 550, that's going to be gone as well.

01:18It's like, hey, do I want to buy Bitcoin at 100 grand when I could have bought it at 49 grand?

01:22Well, how about if we told you that you could buy Bitcoin at 100 grand and next year it's 250 grand?

01:27Well, yeah, there's no value behind it if you put it into real world terms.

01:30Ohtani minus 550, I just see that as like a baseline price right now that's only going to get higher.