In recent weeks, Shohei Ohtani has begun to look so human – batting .263 in July, allowing multiple runs in his past four pitching starts and skipping the All-Star Game for knee maintenance – that his National League MVP odds have been cut in half.Yup, what was once an outlandish -4000 bet on Fanatics Sportsbook is now … a still-absurd -1800. In simple terms, Ohtani’s implied odds of winning the NL MVP currently sit at around 95 percent.“The MVP award used to be a really cool honor,” The Athletic’s Jayson Stark jokingly bemoaned in his midseason awards column. “But as long as the incredible Ohtani roams the Earth, how is anyone else in his league supposed to win it?”The Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-way superstar has made this a boring race year after year. He is on pace to win his fourth straight MVP and fifth in six years (the first two in the American League with the Angels).Which begs the question: How do you create a betting line for this guy?Pitching dominates MLB's All-Star GameJohnny Flores Jr. and Jayne OrensteinTyler Gour, a sports trader for Fanatics, explained the thought process dating back to December, when the company listed its preliminary awards odds.“The conversation we have with ourselves is not so much ‘What are the odds that he’ll have an MVP-caliber season?’ because we know he probably will,” Gour said. “Instead, it turns into ‘What are the odds that either someone is so spectacular to knock him off the perch or what are the chances that he gets injured and misses a significant amount of time?’”