There’s this notion right now that if Kyle Schwarber keeps hitting like this, he just might make a run at Shohei Ohtani for the National League’s MVP Award. But the notion might actually be upside down, even if Ohtani is having himself another time. I believe that the way The Schwarb is going, Ohtani and everybody else might be chasing him the rest of the way .

Schwarber now has one more home run than Ohtani with 40, and leads baseball with 94 RBIs. He might get to 100 RBIs before the weekend is over. No one has been more important to his team than Schwarber has been to the first-place Phillies in this season when he’s moving up on free agency.

He has now hit 40 or more homers in three of his four seasons in Philadelphia. And if he wasn’t a rock star before this season, he has offi

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