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Who Should Win the American League MVP Award?

When you put them next to each other, it doesn't look they should be playing the same sport.

Aaron Judge is 6'7". Jose Altuve is 5'6". There's a one-plus-foot, 117-pound difference between the two stars, yet both are finalists for the American League MVP Award, along with Jose Ramirez of the Cleveland Indians.

Not only do these two men play the same sport, they both played it better than anyone else in 2017.

It's fascinating that two players of such different physical stature are the top contenders for the American League's top individual prize, but the seasons both of them had were extraordinary, perhaps the best seasons in MLB history for players as tall as Judge and as short as Altuve.