6 Darkhorse MVP Candidates After the First Half

And when talking about the MVP races in either league, there are a few names dominating the respective narratives at the moment.Everyone knows which MLB players are currently the favorites to take home hardware after the regular season, but does Milwaukee's Travis Shaw have a chance to make a surprise run?

With one half of baseball in the books and another half to go, there's still a whole lot of ballgame left before any team or individual honors are officially handed out. But that doesn't mean there aren't a handful of frontrunners.

In the American League, it's basically Aaron Judge and everyone else, which makes sense after the kind of first half he just had. Other players who are lagging…