Baseball announced their MVP Award winners earlier this week, and while the NL results were somewhat predictable, a closer examination of the data reveals that the voters got this one wrong.
Freddie Freeman received 28 of 30 possible first-place votes, and the other two voters who didn’t deem him the actual MVP gave him their second-place votes.
Those two defections from the Freeman camp went to Mookie Betts, who received 21 second-place votes, five third-place votes, as well as a fifth and sixth in addition to those two first-place nods.
Those two voters who granted their first-place votes to Betts might have been in the extreme minority, but they were ultimately correct.