Last year's American League MVP Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees and 2024 National League MVP Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers were the leading vote-getters in the latest MLB.com MVP poll, per Jason Foster.

Judge would know about living large. With a .391 average, he’s got a shot to be the first player in 84 years to finish at .400. There’s nothing in Judge’s history that suggests he’ll run the table – his career average is 100 points lower – but with a third of the season already in the books, his odds are improving.

Baseball has been dying for a superstar to carry it for some time and after years of searching, it has two. And what this weekend’s three-game series showed exactly why.