Today’s Lineups

When we last checked in with the NL MVP race on September 6, it was too close to tell, with a four-way battle between Pete Crow-Armstrong, Shohei Ohtani, Geraldo Perdomo and Trea Turner and only 0.2 WAR separating them (in bWAR/fWAR average). Two weeks have passed since that point: how do things now stand? As before, I’ve taken the players who appear in the top ten either by bWAR or fWAR, and averaged out their production between the two metrics. That gives us 12 players as before, though we have lost Ketel Marte, whose recent slump has dropped him out of the top ten by fWAR (he currently ranks 13th there). He has been replaced by Kyle Schwarber, who is tenth by fWAR.

With eight games left to play, it now appears to be a two-horse race with Turner having dropped back into

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