November 17, 2022

Verdict Find Judge MVP

Every voter for the AL MVP award voted Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani first or second. Judge, however, took 28 of the 30 first place votes to win the MVP going away. He becomes the tallest MVP ever:

At 6-foot-7, Judge is the tallest MVP winner ever in either league. The previous tallest MVP was his Yankees teammate, 6-foot-6 Giancarlo Stanton, the NL winner with the Marlins in 2017. The previous tallest winners in the AL were 6-foot-5 Frank Thomas (1993-94), Joe Mauer (2009) and Justin Verlander (2011). NL winners who were also 6-foot-5: Dave Parker (1978), Kris Bryant (2016) and Freddie Freeman (2020). 

BBWAA.com

That seems about right to me. If Ohtani can combine his 2021 hitting with his 2022 pitching, he might need to get two votes from every writer to express how much better he would be than anyone else in the game.

Verlander finished tenth, the best finish for a pitcher this season.

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