New York Yankee fans are no strangers to anti-Yankee bias from the national media. In the case of the prestigious AL MVP award, it can reach feverish levels. After all, who can forget the not-so-subtle campaign that allowed Jose Altuve to steal the AL MVP from Aaron Judge back in 2017?
Now in 2025, they're at it again. Despite what should be obvious to everyone with eyeballs and a modicum of baseball knowledge, Cal Raleigh was named as the "odds-on favorite" a month ago, despite nearly every metric favoring Judge, some by cavernous margins.