American League MVP Race: Judge vs. Raleigh Showdown

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00:00All right, so American League MVP is going to be decided here

00:03over the next couple of weeks, and not quite a toss-up

00:06because Judge is a pretty big favorite,

00:09but he's been a bigger favorite to win the MVP,

00:11and now that he's back playing right field again

00:13or the outfield again and throwing the ball,

00:15you've seen a little bit of a push.

00:17Raleigh's home runs are going to give him a chance to win this award,

00:22but Judge is minus 250, Raleigh is plus 180.

00:24I guess the better question is what would Raleigh have to do

00:27to win it at this point, or are these odds just simply wrong?

00:31I mean, every time I think, oh, okay, Judge is going to tie a bow on this thing,

00:35Cal does one of those little home run sprees, right?

00:38And he's got six home runs in his last 14 games,

00:40and I think ultimately when you look at the offensive output from Judge,

00:45and now he's kind of back doing his thing as well,

00:47where you see that OPS now pushing to the 1,100 territory,

00:52the batting average is way up there.

00:54I think it's going to be really hard to surpass,

00:56but to answer your question,

00:58I think Cal Raleigh is going to need to push north of that 60 home run threshold

01:02and really make that gap as significant as possible.

01:06And if it's 60-plus homers and you're looking at maybe a 20 home run gap,

01:10maybe voters look at that a little bit more

01:12and really talk themselves into the catching side of things.

01:15But when you look at the overall offensive output,

01:18it's really hard to turn away from a 321, 443, 656 slash line,

01:24which is what Aaron Judge is sporting right now.