PTBNL Episode 63: Ronald Acuña Jr wins NL MVP, Free Agent rumors, non-tender deadline and more

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Kris and Stephen are back this week for the latest episode of PTBNL. This week, the guys discuss Ronald Acuña Jr winning his first ever NL MVP award and looking back on some of the insane numbers he put up in 2023. Also discussed was the Braves are willing to spend heavily on a starting pitcher according to reports and Friday marks the non-tender deadline for teams around baseball and the Braves have some interesting decisions to make. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hello, welcome to episode 63, the MVP edition of the podcast to be named later.
0:30.1	I am Chris Willis, and I am joined again tonight by Stephen Taubbert.
0:33.6	Stephen, how are you doing?
0:35.0	What's up, man?
0:36.0	Yeah, it's, what a night.
0:37.6	Right, what a night.
0:38.6	We, you know, we watched this guy all year long and, you know,
0:42.6	Mookie had that insane August and I wasn't sure if, if he was going to come and kind of
0:48.9	and steal it away.
0:49.8	Mookie had an incredible year.
0:51.0	But, you know, Ronald was the best player in the National League for pretty much since day one and it's it was it's really
0:58.4	rewarding you know the season didn't end the way any of us wanted to obviously
1:01.8	you know on the team level but you know seeing Ronald win the MVP and
1:07.9	finally get kind of credit for the year he had. That was nice.
1:12.2	It was obviously we would have taken the World Series over this,
1:16.1	but if you couldn't get the World Series,
1:18.0	then having Ronald win the MVP was pretty sweet.
1:21.6	Yeah, and if you weren't following along earlier tonight,
1:24.2	Ronald CUNY Jr. won the National League MVP award unanimously, all 30-place votes, first-place votes.
1:32.2	Mookie Betts received all 32nd place votes.
1:35.0	It was the first time that that's ever happened, I think, in BBWA voting history.
1:40.8	You know, as you said, I think we had a discussion in Slack pretty much for the last two
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