After winning the 2025 National League MVP award this week, Los Angeles Dodgers megastar Shohei Ohtani has four MVP awards total in his career, the second-most ever. Only Barry Bonds has more (seven), but based on new comments from Ohtani’s star teammate in LA, Mookie Betts, Bonds’s MVP record is far from safe.

Appearing as a guest on MLB Network, Betts declared that Ohtani is pretty much a lock for MVP on a year-by-year basis, as long as he’s still pitching.

“If he’s still pitching, man, we can just keep giving it to him (every year),” Betts said.

Betts knows a thing or two about winning an MVP trophy. He bagged the 2018 American League MVP award as a member of the Boston Red Sox, the same year he won a World Series with the club.

In response to Betts’s take on Ohtani, at least

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