Mookie Betts’ hot month has caused some to believe that he can challenge Ronald Acuña Jr. for the NL MVP award this season. Betts has even surpassed Acuña Jr. in some recent MVP odds. However, Atlanta Braves insider & reporter, Grant McAuley, joined The Morning Shift earlier today to explain why that’s not going to happen.
“If Ronald does get to those historic peaks and scores 145 or 150 runs with 200 hits and 40 doubles and maybe 100 runs batted in and does all that while cutting his strikeout rate 50% and putting together a season that nobody has ever seen before, I have a hard time making a strong case for someone else just because they hit some homers and got hot for a month and happen to play on a great team as well.” McAuley said
Grant also mentioned the fact that former Brave and now teammate of Mookie , Freddie Freeman, could take votes away from Betts and vice versa, but there’s nobody on the Braves who will take votes away from the all-star right fielder.
The main point is that nobody has been talking about what Mookie has been doing all season, only what he and Freeman have been doing in recent games, and up until this point Ronald Acuña Jr. has been the runaway MVP all season long because he’s been performing at an MVP level all year, not just a month.
