00:00Okay, what happens if he approaches 57 home runs?
00:01Like, ah, it's probably not good enough.
00:02Like, wait a second.
00:03Why isn't it?
00:03Because you have otherworldly-type players like Aaron Judge.
00:07And also coming back to the season, much more healthy this year for Aaron Judge.
00:10Now we're about the elbow.
00:11Can he stick it out for a full?
00:12Again, he's not going to play 162 games.
00:14But let's pencil in 145 games for him and only missed a 17.
00:19What would those numbers actually look like here?
00:20And also, plays in one of the better hitters' ballparks.
00:22And also, Red Sox, great hitters' ballpark.
00:25Orioles moving their fences back in.
00:27Toronto already did that.
00:28So the chance for Aaron Judge to go 50-plus bombs is very, very good.
00:31Now, let me ask you this, Tom.
00:33Bobby Wood Jr. is in second.
00:34Great baseball player.
00:35He's got to really run it up in probably 40-plus home runs.
00:37Lead Major League Baseball and batting average.
00:39And also, you know, somehow get close to that hitting numbers 215-220 on the season,
00:43which is so hard to do.
00:45Who else do you feel is a legitimate shot for you to win the MVP?
00:48Let's take Aaron Judge and Bobby Wood off the board and Cal Rowley.
00:51Is there only Gunnar Henderson?
00:52Or is there somebody way down that line like, hey, keep an eye on this guy?
00:56I know a lot of people are going to try and make the argument for Nick Kurtz based on what
01:01he did last year
01:01and then say, oh, if we extrapolate that over 162 games, it would be this, this, and this
01:07versus home runs, RBIs, average, ISO, whatever it might be.
01:11But buying into a second-year player at a sub-20-to-1 number seems a bit much.
01:16I think the reasonable answer is J-RAM.
01:20Jose Ramirez for the Guardians.
01:21You know, him putting another 40-40 season on the table is viable.
01:26Him hitting over 300 is viable.
01:27Him having a gold glove, again, is viable.
01:29So there's not many players that I can buy into.
01:32J-Rod, it's a terrible number.
01:34I just don't think that that number should be that close to another player on his own team
01:38that is 7-to-1.
01:39J-Rod would have to hit 70 home runs for him to be in a conversation of an MVP.
01:44You can't have two MVP players on the same team.
01:46That's just not going to happen.
01:47When it comes to Kurtz, I think he has the potential to do it, but I don't like the number.
01:51Gladdy, I'm not sold that he has enough power.
01:53I think he held more home runs than he did last year, but him tripling the home runs from last
01:56year,
01:57he would need to do, which is just not going to happen.
01:58And Jose Ramirez is the only viable option.
02:01Roman Anthony hasn't put together a full season for me to be willing to buy into it.
02:04And Caminero, he's going to take a step back in his power because they're moving back to the trop in
02:08Tampa.
02:08There's no viable option outside of Gunnar Henderson.
02:11I want to believe him from a talent perspective.
02:13I just don't think he'll have the numbers to match the other players.
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