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This underrated Dodgers slugger is quietly threatening Shohei Ohtani for NL MVP

While it might be a little hard to argue that any player who earned a 10-year, $140 million contract extension as recently as last season is underrated, Will Smith has sort of been pushed out of the spotlight by his much more famous Dodgers teammates.

It makes sense — anyone who were to bat behind Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Freddie Freeman would understandably get less attention, but Smith is having a better season at the plate than any of them by some metrics and is getting far less buzz.

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