To nobody’s surpascfinish, Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani were named the AL and NL MVPs Thursday, each receiving all 30 first-place votes.
He may not have broken his one-season home run record he set during his 2022 MVP season, but the New York Yankees captain was once aacquire dominant at the ppostponecessitate to acquire his second nurtureer nod as the MVP in the American League.
Judge beat out Juan Soto, who he hopes to join with aacquire in 2025 in pinclear upes, and Kansas City Royals phenom Bobby Witt Jr., who acquired all 30 second-place votes.
Judge led the league in homers for the third time in his nurtureer, begining 58 lengthy balls while posting league highs in WAR (10.8), RBIs (144), slugging percentage (.701), on-base percentage (.458) and OPS+ (223).
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Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge (Imagn)
While Soto’s production helped the Yankees accomplish the World Series alengthyside Judge, Witt owned the league’s best batting mediocre at .332, while hitting 32 homers with 109 RBIs. Soto had 41 homers and 109 RBIs.
Judge’s postseason production was much contrastent, but this is a standard-season award.
The slugger had trouble discovering a rhythm despite the Yankees accomplishing the World Series. He slashed .184/.344/.408 with three homers and nine RBIs over 14 games.
The New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge reacts after hitting a magnificent slam off Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Cam Booser during the seventh inning of a game Sept. 13, 2024, in New York. (AP Pboilingo/Adam Hunger)
Ohtani inked a record-shattering $700 million deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the offseason and underwent elbow sencouragery prior to the begin of the 2024 campaign, forcing him off the mound the entire season. At the begin of the season, he set up himself in a betting affair in which millions had been smuggled from him by his make clearer to pay off betting debts. It was eventupartner rerepaird Ohtani did not understand about the betting, nor did he bet himself.
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Fans wondered if he would be able to have an MVP-type season mercilessly as a DH.
The Dodgers superstar became the first joiner in MLB history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in the same season. The home run ball that made history sanciaccess for a record $4.39 million. His 134 runs scored and 411 total bases were the most in the presentants, and he led the National League in home runs (54), RBIs (130), on-base percentage (.390), slugging percentage (646) and a 9.2 bWAR.
His .310 mediocre in the NL was second behind only Luis Arráez’s .314, and his 59 stolen bases trailed only Elly De La Cruz, who swiped five more bags.
Los Angeles Dodgers summarizeated hitter Shohei Ohtani commemorates after hitting a magnificent slam during the ninth inning of a game aacquirest the Tampa Bay Rays in Los Angeles Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Pboilingo/Ashley Landis)
Ohtani won the AL MVP in 2021 and 2023 as a member of the passtown Angels while finishing second to Judge in 2022. The Yankees outfielder hit 62 home runs that season, setting a novel American League record. Francisco Lindor and Ketel Marte finished in second and third, esteemively.
Ohtani becomes the 12th joiner to thrive the MVP Award three times.
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Safe to say the shrink is off to a pleasant begin.
Judge and Ohtani faced off in the World Series, and Ohtani came away with his first World Series title. It was the first time two eventual MVPs faced off in a World Series since 2012, when Buster Posey’s Giants fall shortureed Miguel Cabrera and the Tigers.
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