Don’t let anyone ever try to claim that Shohei Ohtani isn’t at least the best baseball player of his generation. Maybe several others, too.

He has now won four Most Valuable Player awards in five seasons, two in the American League with the Angels and the last two in the National League with the Dodgers. And all four times, with an electorate made up of two Baseball Writers’ Association of America members from each league city but a panel that changes from year to year, the vote was unanimous.

If that’s not a consensus, I’m not sure what is.

There were only seven holdover voters on the National League voting panel from 2024 to ’25: David O’Brien of The Athletic, Bob Nightengale of USA Today, Thomas Harding and Alex Stumpf of MLB.com, Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post, Kevin Acee of th

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