Why Aaron Decide continues to be MVP
The precise reply is Aaron Decide.
However earlier than Yankees followers get aggravated that I used to be critically contemplating Cal Raleigh for first-half AL MVP — and the primary half of the schedule did full this week with each crew reaching 81 video games — then right here is my query:
How would you’re feeling if Raleigh had been doing this for the Yankees and Decide for the Mariners? In different phrases, what if the Yankees had a switch-hitting catcher — emphasis on catcher — who was main the league in homers, and by some means Yankee Stadium was reworked from one of many best locations to clear a fence to the hardest (howdy T-Cellular Park), and the participant was an elite defender at an important place on the sphere — did I point out he’s a catcher? My suspicion is that if Raleigh was doing all of that in pinstripes quite than off-the-beaten baseball path in Seattle, you, Yankees followers, can be screaming he, and never Decide, ought to be the first-half AL MVP.
And perhaps he’s. I simply suppose that no stat or metric fully honors what it means to have the ability to present high-end offense with the drudgery of catcher — simply take into account the bat was speculated to be the carrying device for each Francisco Alvarez and Austin Wells, and look how they’ve struggled beneath the load of all {that a} catcher is requested to do.