Hard to believe I’m saying this about a sport in which virtually all player movement is tracked and measured by high-frame-rate cameras, but … we might need more baseball stats!

This year’s American League MVP race is proof -- to me, anyway -- that the typical stats voters value in these decisions have failed Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh .

Yankees slugger Aaron Judge fronted MLB.com’s final AL MVP poll , and I would consider that to be a pretty good reflection of how this vote will go.

If Judge, who leads the Majors in nearly every offensive metric that matters, wins the award for the second straight year and the third time in four years, he will be eminently deserving. And that will be just another fun fact to include on his eventual Hall of Fame plaque.

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