He’s no Shohei Ohtani, but Aaron Judge’s AL MVP-caliber season is Ruthian in its own right

The charismatic slugger is lapping the field in production, threatening records, and achieving at a level that forces the baseball aficionado to hunt through grainy newsreels to find comparable talent.

Yes, Shohei Ohtani continues to wow us with his two-way exploits. But today, we’re talking about Aaron Judge.

The two are cooking up a nifty little race for the American League Most Valuable Player award, an honor that already puts the “suss” in subjective given the wide array of voting philosophies and occasional ballot malfunctions that can occur among the 30 electors.

This isn’t a screed on “unfair” or “ill-considered” ballots, though. As it stands now, there’s no wrong answer when it comes to Judge vs. Ohtani, just as there’s no singular manner that “value” can be defined.

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