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2025 National League MVP Race Heats Up with Top Picks
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2/16/2025
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Let's go to the National League MVP, where the conversation should just be Shohei Ohtani.
00:06
But now here comes Juan Soto with 5-1.
00:08
Here comes Mookie Betts.
00:09
Here comes Kyle Tucker, Elie Delacruz.
00:12
So Joe, let's talk National League MVP.
00:15
It just feels like Ohtani again, right?
00:17
I mean, especially if he's going to come back and pitch.
00:20
He's 50-50 and he pitches.
00:22
I mean, what are we supposed to do with that?
00:26
I want to put the glasses on of the old man Joe again for a second and just talk about
00:30
when I was a young kid, when I saw Babe Ruth playing, he didn't steal 50 bases, but this
00:36
Ohtani kid, he could steal all them bases and hit the home runs and pitch too.
00:42
That's impressive.
00:43
Why is Matlock a lady?
00:45
When I used to watch Matlock, it wasn't a lady.
00:48
It was a man, and now it's a lady, and times are changing.
00:53
Is Shohei Ohtani or bust here?
00:54
I mean, just put all the units on Ohtani.
00:57
Here's the thing.
00:58
You're trying to look for a narrative.
00:59
Could anybody else pop here?
01:02
And Soto and Endor and all those guys being on the same team makes it tricky for me.
01:06
Bryce Harper could certainly be a guy, but Kyle Tucker plus 1,400 contract year.
01:10
If the Cubs win this division and Kyle Tucker carries this Cubs offense, that is the dark
01:15
horse candidate, but right now it's still the same horse, and it's Ohtani.
01:19
Matt, who's MVP candidates for you?
01:22
No, I don't want to watch Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
01:24
I want to watch Matlock.
01:26
All right, real quick.
01:28
It's Bryce Harper as my favorite.
01:29
This coincides with my belief that Trey Turner is on a rebound and Max Kepler makes this
01:34
lineup longer, and I just think that the Phillies are finally there, and if they emerge, Bryce
01:39
Harper's going to be that guy.
01:40
If you don't like that, you can go to Mookie Betts, because if it's not Ohtani and it's
01:43
not Friedman, then Mookie Betts still has a place in greatness in this Dodgers pantheon.
01:49
Strong shots are the two Cruzes.
01:51
Elie Delacruz is plus 2,000.
01:53
He has all the ability to do that.
01:55
He's cut down his strikeout rate.
01:57
He has the impressive ability to do it.
01:59
He can hit the ball hard.
02:01
He can steal bases.
02:02
And the last guy here is Aniel Cruz at 10,000 to one, because when healthy, imagine Pittsburgh.
02:09
Cruz, Reynolds, Paul Skeens, the eyes of the world, and I said this two seasons ago.
02:14
Pittsburgh is just a stone's throw away from East Palestine, Ohio, and don't think that
02:18
we've forgotten about those people and what's happened there.
02:21
Things like baseball can lift everyone up.
02:23
So there's my NL there, Joe.
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