On a day with no baseball, let's figure out who has the inside track on this year's awards.
Having pondered the issue for approximately thirty seconds, let me say this - I'm neither providing you with my own votes nor my prediction for how the vote will go. Nope. I'm just handicapping the race.
In the junior circuit
MVP - Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles
Duh. One wonders how long he can do this - playing 150 games and pitching in, say, 25 of them - and at this level. It's simply never been done before - the closest would be Babe Ruth's 1919 season, when he started 15 times on the mound and 110 times in the outfield.