Generational players tend to make the spectacular look mundane. And whether it’s Aaron Judge hitting over .400 as we approach June or Shohei Ohtani being second in MLB in OPS after a quiet start to the year, the two best players in the world again look like they’re destined to finish as the AL and NL MVP Award winners, respectively.
Judge and Ohtani are the easy frontrunners for MVP and in a year when they’re healthy, that will likely always be the case. But what if there was a world where the reigning MVPs weren’t sitting atop every offensive leaderboard?