Admittedly, MVP voting is still very idiosyncratic in nature. How exactly do we define what it means to be the most valuable? Some people interpret it as the best player in the league. Others define it as who meant the most to his team’s success. Rookies haven’t won the award. Jim Brown won it back in the day, but that was 1957 and it is a whole different league.
Suffice it to say that Stroud has about a one percent chance of winning the award. That has nothing to do with him per se. The voters just don’t consider voting for rookies.