MLB MVP Race: Crow-Armstrong vs. Ohtani - Who's the Favorite?

But it does appear that the MVP in the National League is sort of an open and shut case. I've made my statement here. I think it's ridiculous. But OK, fine. Pete Crow Armstrong is minus 1100 to currently win the National League MVP Shohei Ohtani is plus 650. This despite pitching and hitting in Major League Baseball. And you know, Ohtani did not end up with 200 innings or even 150 innings this season. But he was great when he was on the mound. But at this point, I can't sit here, Tom, and say, you know, invest that 100 to win you back 650 on Ohtani. It just seems like the odds makers have made up their mind here. It really has. And it really seems that way. You know, what Ohtani does is absolutely unbelievable. And, you know, we alluded to it earlier in the show. Some of it's just timing. And what you mentioned really, you know, stuck with me is like, if Ohtani had just pitched this way in July, August, September, we'd be having a different conversation, right? Like last year, he started the year not pitching, he came back and it was absolutely unbelievable. If he had a sub, what was it, a sub one ERA, like a .83 ERA through X amount of first starts. If he had that now, we'd be having a completely different conversation. And if Pete Crow Armstrong was this on fire to start the season, but cooled off as he started the season very slow, we'd be in a different world. It'd be Ohtani minus 10,000, not just minus 1,100. So I think Pete Crow Armstrong will win just because of where we are in the ebbs and flows of the MLB season.