Bobby Witt Jr. Sits as AL MVP Favorite Over Aaron Judge

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00:00Most would think, well, who was the MVP last year?

00:02Well, it's Aaron Judge.

00:03Who's the favorite this year?

00:04It's not Aaron Judge.

00:05How about that?

00:06It's Bobby Wood Jr. at a plus 280 price.

00:09A lot of people on this network were saying,

00:11like, oh, Aaron Judge is always gonna be

00:13that MVP favorite here at the Fans of the Sportsbook.

00:15Not the case here.

00:16Do you agree Bobby Wood Jr. should be the favorite

00:18for the AL MVP, or should it be Aaron Judge?

00:23Well, Aaron Judge will always have to be

00:26in a conversation, provided he plays enough games, right?

00:29I mean, that's gonna be it.

00:30Now, are we gonna see a huge drop-off

00:33with Soto not batting behind him?

00:36Ah, that we'll find out here

00:39if guys are not willing to pitch to him.

00:41But listen, as long as he plays enough games

00:45and he's got the possibility of hitting, you know,

00:4850-plus home runs in a year, driving in 120-plus RBI,

00:52yes, he's gonna hit 300.

00:54I mean, the problem is, is he gonna play enough games?

00:57Is he gonna run into a wall

00:59and stub his toe again?

01:00Lot of question marks there for him.

01:02But the one thing we know about Bobby Wood

01:05is that he is, from a WRC-plus,

01:08from a stolen base perspective,

01:10singles, doubles, even the home runs,

01:12different kind of player, but smaller market.

01:15I think it's judges to lose,

01:17but it wouldn't shock me at all

01:19if Bobby Wood Jr. is your MVP.

01:23Not gonna be doing a double-take here in the AL MVP race.

01:26Maybe Joe Friese can do some work here behind the scenes,

01:28but I'm just like scanning the board quickly.

01:30And I'd have to go far to find Mike Trout at 16-1.

01:34There's no way he was hovering around 16-1

01:36at the beginning of spring training.

01:38Like, I know he's having a decent spring training

01:39and we're anticipating him being healthy

01:41and maybe there's a shot, but Trout now at 16-1

01:43because he's one of those players I was trying to look down,

01:45like, oh, I wonder where he can get him.

01:4750-1, 60-1, 70-1, he's 16-1.

01:49And I don't think he opened up at, let's just say,

01:52when the odds came out for the Fanville betting here.

01:54He did, so I'm getting, that's crazy.

01:57I like Trout, 16-1, no shot.

01:5960-1, give me it, because you know as well as I do,

02:02he's gonna slide in the second base

02:04after hitting seven home runs

02:05in the first two weeks of the season

02:07and be out for six more weeks at this point.

02:08I can't bet that.

02:09But if we are looking down the board,

02:11and down the board, I mean,

02:12after Bobby Woods Jr. and Aaron Judge,

02:14who has your attention, Joe, in this odds market

02:17here at the Fanville Sportsbook?

02:20Well, I think Vlad Guerrero is real interesting, isn't he,

02:22since it is a contract year in the American League East

02:27and he's a guy that's certainly gonna have

02:29some motivation here.

02:31He's a guy that can certainly be an RBI leader.

02:34He can be even a hits leader.

02:37I mean, there is, he has got all the talent in the world,

02:40provided that he can stay in that lineup.

02:43But I love guys that have motivation here.

02:46And this organization, he'd love nothing more

02:48to stick it to them and make their life miserable.

02:50Because if you didn't sign him to this point,

02:53if he has an MVP caliber year here,

02:56well, he's gonna love that.

02:58I think he's worth a shot at that price here.

03:01Why not?

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