00:00could be pat murphy's you know obviously fantastic all right so uh this this is trying to figure out
00:05who the runner-up would be because it would appear that barring anything with health the
00:08america league mvp could be this year an open and shut case you do not have uh aaron judge i'm
00:14very
00:15surprised bobby witt is as low as he is with the season he's having but i guess it's just a
00:20product
00:20of the royals being horrible but it is jordan alvarez's award i think tom so it's just a matter
00:25of who you can advance on here i think closer to the bottom that would just be camonero i think
00:31it's as simple as that like i i think your don will win it i think it's very straightforward but
00:35there's not to say that you can't invest in camonero now his you know his price increases then you can
00:41get out a little bit later i he's gonna go through a streak where he hits five home runs in
00:45a week
00:46people are gonna put him into the conversation people are gonna be willing to say that he wins
00:49the award but ultimately your don will win it you could still make money on camonero from now until
00:54the end of the season and then in the nl tom barring an injury this is the shohei otani annual
00:59mvp award every time he hits and pitches you got to give it to him no difference the season
01:04i mean i guess the question would be is if otani didn't play another inning for the rest of the
01:09season would he win the mvp you would probably say probably not but that just tells you how far
01:13ahead he is of everybody else uh you made a good point maybe otani is shut down from pitching just
01:18to get ready from the postseason sometime in september but i mean look pico armstrong right
01:23now is taking the second most tickets and that guy's had what would you say tom two good months
01:28out of four like really when you think about it like two incredible months or two nothing months
01:33that guy's not going to win the mvp no he's had a roller coaster of a season and that's you
01:38know
01:38putting it lightly uh otani is going to win it and we've had this uh conversation for a couple years
01:44we're going to continue to have it when you go through a stretch where he has enough innings and
01:48he's having an era at whatever it was 0.85 over a significant stretch and he's still going to go
01:54out there he has averages and as high as it was he's not going to have as many home runs
01:58but it's
01:59still the otani award when it's all said and done it should always be when he's pitching and hitting
02:04no one's ever going to do this folks for their as long as you ever watch baseball in the past
02:08or
02:09the future it'll never be done he's the mvp every year all right most teams home team home runs let's
02:14take a look at this on calci pretty incredible when you think that there's been no judge there's
02:17been no stanton but ben rice has filled the bucket with home runs for the yankees and they're
02:23just so far ahead of everybody else but i suppose there's some you know sleeping tigers here too and
02:29what you don't know tom maybe is if you were to project a team that could be closer to the
02:34yankees
02:35let's say the white socks were to add a massive power guy could the white socks or the nationals
02:40go ahead of new york i don't see that happening but that's where you really can play this market
02:46a little bit if a team is in it and they acquire a bat that could hit 15 home runs
02:50the rest of the
02:51way it could catapult them maybe to second or third right i gotta say this market seems all over
02:56the place at atlanta leading the way and they are in eighth place right now and there was a 14
03:03-ish
03:03home runs behind the yankees and the nationals are nowhere near the top of the list and yet they are
03:08tied with the yankees now granted if you're expecting judge to come back if you're expecting
03:13a cunha to come back for their respective teams that would change things but i would not be looking
03:18to the dodgers that's the answer to this question right now do not look to the dodgers because again
03:21with a 12-game lead if they get that into september muki freddy otani pahes uh are all going to
03:28be
03:29shut down or not not shut down they're going to have an extra day off here or there just to
03:32give
03:32them some rest to be ready for october 1st yeah you're right through the final week of the season for
03:37la may not look like the dodgers i mean it's just true they add remember that you're allowed
03:40it's not quite what it used to be where you can add as many players as you want to the
03:44roster but
03:44you can add two or three extra players whoever those guys are are going to be playing a lot the
03:48final week of the season for la make no mistake about it but meanwhile team era may be where the
03:53dodgers have it but the other part of this tom is like what's who's to say the dodgers don't end
03:57up with school scoobal imagine that then all of a sudden whoever gets him that's going to help this
04:02team's era the dodgers right now are taking the most action on this but again you made a good point
04:09last week of the season who knows who's pitching for la it could change things significantly but it
04:13does feel like la will be in the mix right i still like milwaukee you know right now the yankees
04:18lead
04:19it at 3.38 the brewers are right behind them at 3.48 era you know the brewers will be
04:24fighting tooth
04:25and nail for everything yeah i still think they win division but the cubs are going to give them a
04:28push
04:28at some point the cubs will go on another one of those streaks and i think the brewers of the
04:32team
04:32i continuously want to back that bullpen is fantastic
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