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Shohei Ohtani is doing it again. With more than a third of the season in the rearview, the 30-year-old (soon to be 31) is repeating last season’s MVP performance, out-muscling his peers in both home runs and OPS. Thirty percent of his hits have been round-trippers, and he’s currently on pace to tie last season’s total of 54.
Think of him as Big Blue Origin, offering trips to low Earth orbit exclusively to the baseball community en route to being the runaway favorite (-650) for his fourth MVP award.
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Sunday they will deploy Ohtani as a pitcher beginning Monday night against the San Diego Padres, which will only widen the gap between the Los Angeles superstar and everyone else in the NL. His odds to win MVP moved from -300 to -650 since it was announced he would start on the mound.
“If he looks decent in even only a few starts, you’re going to see his odds become even more expensive to win the award,” Thomas Gable, sportsbook director for the Borgata, told The Athletic.
