Nick Castellanos argues that Jose Iglesias deserves the AL MVP award due to his impact on the resurgent New York Mets.
Shohei Ohtani's dominance led him to clinch the American League MVP award for the second consecutive year. Ohtani became the first member of Major League Baseball 's 50-50 club, hitting 50 home runs and stealing 50 bases, setting the Los Angeles Dodgers up for a World Series run. Ohtani earned 423 points in the voting. New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor finished second with 263 points.
While Ohtani's victory was undisputed, Philadelphia Phillies star Nick Castellanos made a compelling case for one of Lindor's teammates on the resurgent Mets, Jose Iglesias. On a podcast with Chris Rose, Castellanos highlighted the impact Iglesias had on the Mets' postseason run. 'If you’re looking at the MVP as having the most weight on creating wins for your team, there’s no other player that has had that much weight as Jose Iglesias,' Castellanos said. 'With him being able to come in and bring that Latin spark, knocked the ice off of Lindor, finally got Vientos probably comfortable to be able to be an everyday third baseman. And now a bunch of guys that look like they had no direction running in all different directions in the beginning of the year, they made the playoffs. Got to where they did while the whole Mets organization had theIt’s a new way of thinking about what the award should entail. Iglesias played in only 85 games for the Mets but was extremely productive, posting a .337 batting average and putting the ball in play with a frequency not seen much in today’s game. He also played his traditionally excellent defense. And make no mistake, Rose pointed out that such an argument wouldn’t go over well with sabermetricians but Castellanos had a pretty good answer for that, saying: 'I'm not a sabermetrician, I'm a baseball player.' Iglesias did not garner even a 10th place vote in the actual balloting. Turns out few are as creative as Castellanos.
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