effectively wild. Effect Wild.

Hello and welcome to episode 2087 of Effectively Wild, a baseball

podcast from Van Grafts presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben

Lindbergh of the Ringer, joined by Meg rally of fan graphs hello Meg.

Hello.

We started yesterday's episode by talking about a unanimous vote,

owners unanimously approving the A's move to Las Vegas.

So maybe we can start this time by talking about a less depressing unanimous vote,

AL MVP voters unanimously approving of Shohei O'Hohy-utani.

I guess we could say the same about NL MVP voters unanimously approving of Ronald

Acuna Jr. Yes, we could indeed. Lots of unanimity this week. We speculated on our first episode this week about whether all of the

major player award votes would be unanimous the winners that is and they

almost all were except for two Blake Snell dissenters on the N.

Sae Young ballot.

That was it.

Otherwise, Cole unanimous and Rookie of the Years, unanimous and Acunya and Otani unanimous and this is the

first player Otani to win an MVP unanimously more than once and it's also the first year that both

MVP winners have been unanimous so this must mean something right There must be some significance to this. Maybe this is

stat blastable, but there's got to be more homogeneity in voting these days for various reasons. I don't know if that's good or bad.

It certainly made me even less interested than usual in the reveals this week

just because there was such a lack of suspense but I would imagine

that there's something to that. Do you think that you would have enjoyed it more if

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