Mike Trout is very, very good at baseball. He’s about as perfect as you can get if you wanted to build a man to dominate the game in a lab. Each year he gets a little bit better, glossing over and ultimately eliminating some flaw or less than perfect aspect to his game, and like LeBron James is the default for MVP unless someone else does something spectacular.
But no man is without flaw, not completely. The Indians’ own MVP frontrunner, Jose Ramirez, is no Mike Trout, though he’s as close as it gets right now in the game.