Ohtani's MVP odds offer 'perfect opportunity'
With Pete Crow-Armstrong now the NL MVP favorite, Drew Dinsick and Trysta Krick unpack why bettors are still better off going "all-in" on the Dodgers' superstar at plus money.
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Drew, I thought it was assumed that Shohei Ohtani, until the end of his career, would be the MVP.
He has been the favorite to win the award every day since March 21, 2024, until now.
That has been taken up by Cubs centerfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong, who has 26 bombs on the year and 69 RBIs.
What do you make of this shift, and is it time to go back to the well of betting Shohei Ohtani at plus money?
Yeah.
This falls into one of the kind of clear and obvious gambling fallacies of recency bias.
Congratulations to the Cubs for sweeping the Dodgers.
The Dodgers are still gonna be the one seed.
Congratulations to PCA for having a, a hot week.
This is a marathon, not a sprint.
I think this is the perfect opportunity right now to push your chips in the table, all in on Shohei ultimately coming through, and being the decisive winner in this category.
I, I get it right now.
If you held the vote today, it would be very close, maybe lean PCA.
But once Octo- you know, once we get th- you know, through this, August and September and the chips have, you know, the dust has settled, I think, and the chips are counted, I think Ohtani is gonna be a decisive winner here, and we are gonna tell stories, about getting the best player in baseball at plus 100 to win the MVP.
