There will not be a lot drama concerning Thursday’s American League MVP award announcement with Aaron Choose ready to take the prize for the second time in three years.
In his age-32 season, Choose set a career best for video games performed (158), hits (180), doubles (36), RBI (144), walks (133), batting common (.322), on-base share (.458), slugging share (.701), OPS (1.159), OPS-plus (223) and Baseball Reference WAR (10.8).
Considerably alarmingly, Choose additionally set a profession excessive by being deliberately walked 20 occasions because the Yankees struggled to search out him safety from the cleanup spot.
Nonetheless, Choose had much more assist in 2024 than he did in 2022, when Gleyber Torres was second within the lineup in bWAR at simply 4.0.
