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Given a second consecutive Player of the Week accolade plus the unlikelihood he’ll win a third straight (Eloy has not played since March 13, gulp), we’ll go a different direction with the essay this week.
Perhaps for the first time, let’s break down the running total of MVPs, which we have been naming now along with Mitch Ransdell’s art — based on South Side Sox reader votes — for four years now, dating back to Andrew Vaughn on March 9, 2021.