LAS VEGAS — When it came to Major League Baseball’s history of the most valuable player award, there used to be Barry Bonds — and everyone else.
Over his 22-year career, Bonds won baseball’s highest individual honor a record seven times. Before this year, no one else had more than three.
But, like Bonds, accomplishing things no one else can has become the defining trait of Shohei Ohtani’s rise to superstardom.
And on Thursday, his career was elevated another notch higher, as he was named MVP for the fourth time by the Baseball Writers Assn.