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00:00You know, I don't know how you give an MVP to anybody else outside of Shohei Ohtani
00:04if he pitches this season.
00:05Like, to me, I'll never get that one.
00:07He's still currently the favorite at plus 240,
00:09but look at the start that Pete Alonzo has gotten off to at the Mets.
00:13I think you've got to strongly consider that.
00:14Kyle Tucker, what a difference he has made for the Cubs.
00:16They've been fantastic.
00:18Corbin Carroll is the guy that we saw two years ago.
00:21So, you know, sort of a wide-open field, I think, Matt, if Ohtani doesn't pitch.
00:26But, I mean, as long as I've been watching baseball,
00:28I mean, if the guy pitches and hits, you have to give him this award.
00:31No one else should win.
00:33They slowed, I think, his progress down here.
00:35They were supposed to start starting games in May.
00:37I don't see that happening at the moment.
00:40Yeah, I think it's definitely going to be later in the year if he does, in fact, pitch.
00:44From what I heard earlier, and I'm sure you heard it too,
00:47there was just talk of, hey, we just want to make sure he's good for the postseason,
00:51you know, kind of ramp him up for that so he can be really going.
00:54So, yeah, I mean, I'm with you on the whole idea of if a guy's pitching and pitching well
00:59and he's hitting at the level Shohei Ohtani hits, he's got to be MVP.
01:03But we don't know if that's going to happen for sure.
01:06And if he's just a hitter, and I'll put that sort of in air quotes,
01:09then, yeah, it opens the door for some other people to get in there.
01:13And I think there are a lot of worthy candidates in the NL.
01:16And, you know, what Alonzo's done so far, just you look at it every day and think,
01:20all right, well, he's going to slow down here soon, right?
01:22It's really going to start slowing down.
01:24Well, we're over a month in, it's not really slowing down.
01:28But, you know, I don't know if he offers a ton of value right now,
01:31given how hot he started, certainly some, but not as much maybe as people would like.
01:36You know, I'm a fan of Kyle Tucker.
01:38I just think he's got that overall well-rounded game.
01:41The numbers are going to be there.
01:42He's playing on a really good offensive team.
01:44There's going to be the opportunity for some wild moments, you know,
01:47playing where he's playing.
01:48And so I think he's in a good position, too,
01:51to really challenge Ohtani when it's all said and done.
01:53And so I think he's going to be there.