“Doesn’t Elevate Him” - MLB Insider Takes A Shot At Cal Raleigh’s “MVP” Race With Aaron Judge

“Doesn’t Elevate Him” - MLB Insider Takes A Shot At Cal Raleigh’s “MVP” Race With Aaron Judge

Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh (Image Credit: Imagn) After an incredible first half of the 2025 MLB season, New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is once again dominating MVP conversations. But as Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh quietly builds a historic campaign of his own, few MLB analysts are putting the brakes on any talk of an upset in the American League MVP race. MLB insider Jayson Stark, in a recent column for The Athletic, made his sta…

Is There a Case for an AL MVP Not Named Aaron Judge?

In most MLB seasons, we spend the summer dissecting three, maybe four tightly packed award races. This year in the American League, Aaron Judge has put the MVP conversation in a chokehold, and it might already be lights out. Still, we’d be doing a disservice to a handful of AL stars who are having legitimately awesome seasons if we completely overlooked their candidacy. This piece is not here to diminish Judge’s brilliance. It’s here to spotligh…