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Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington react to Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani being announced as the unanimous 2024 MLB MVPs. Both players had historic seasons, but Rob and Kelvin debate the all-important question: Whose was better?
Kelvin Washington: "The MVP would be Shohei Ohtani! What he was able to do this season... He hits the 50-50 club, and he did it in his first season for the Dodgers. Comes right in off of a surgery, gets right in and gets busy. He gives you 50 home runs and he's stealing bases in an era where guys don't really do that anymore... It just looked different. It was power. It was consistency. It was 'I'll bat second, I'll lead off, I'll do whatever you need of me.'"
Rob Parker: "[Aaron Judge] led the major leagues in home runs and [a ton of other categories]. But here's the incredible part about his season: he had a terrible April!... What I'm trying to say is the start he had is like nothing we've ever seen... And here's the only reason I'm going to discount Shohei Ohtani's 50-50: [he's] sliding into pizza boxes! I get it, he has speed and he's doing stuff that other people haven't done, but the base is [bigger and therefore] closer!... The way Judge played from May through September was sights unseen, so he would be my MVP."