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MLB playoffs 2023: Atlanta Braves exit October early yet again, but are likely 11 months from another chance

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PHILADELPHIA — Ronald Acuña Jr. is the likely National League MVP this year. What’s more, the shape of his production — an unprecedented power-speed combination — makes him the perfect avatar of the more dynamic, more action-packed baseball that MLB endeavored to implement this season with a slate of new rules that played perfectly into Acuña’s aggressiveness on the basepaths.