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It’s Time to Have a Discussion About Kyle Schwarber Being the National League MVP
By Kyle Pagan
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Every single Kyle Schwarber at-bat is becoming must-watch television. It hasn’t been like that in Philly since Ryan Howard’s 2006 season. Monday night, he hit a two-run bomb to the third deck to tie the ball game and then a grand slam to open the floodgates with his NL leading 40th home run. Absolute scenes. This looks like his MVP moment:
A couple weeks ago, Shohei Ohtani was running away with the NL MVP at -1000, but now those odds have shrunk a little to -800 at PA sports betting apps and New Jersey sports betting apps. This might be the closest MVP race Ohtani has been a part of since Aaron Judge beat him in 2022. They’re neck and neck. We’re talking a fraction of a decimal point in some major categories separating both of them at the moment.
This side-by-side is nuts:
I gotta imagine it’s going to take something like 55 home runs and some amazing work from the Phillies social team for the voters to even look Schwarber’s way, but if he keeps putting on a show and coming up clutch like he has all season he can really put a dent in Ohtani’s campaign. It wouldn’t hurt to have a little baseball writer voter fatigue play into our hands. If Schwarber isn’t on this team they’d be duking it out with the Marlins and the Mets would be running away with the division. And if we’re being honest with ourselves, Ohtani is also being propped up by a super team:
It’s going to take a team effort around Philadelphia to push Schwarber propaganda so heavy that it might become toxic. We’re going to need everyone in the media from local to national and beyond to start yelling the name “Kyle Schwarber” to the heavens. We need rumors spread that Ohtani recently hedged his NL MVP ticket with a Schwarber one just in case. We’ll need to release the Phillies burners and bots to discount everything Ohtani does while pushing an online agenda that would make a dictatorship blush. Honestly, Philadelphia urbanist Twitter would be perfect for this if they could take a day off from bike lanes for once. Those people attack like nobody’s business. We need coordinated efforts from the Phillies social team and Frankie Two Scoops to target every MVP voter with an extra scoop of ice cream that passes through the press box from now until the end of the season. Kyle Schwarber is the most valuable player in baseball.
Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com