Sometimes the correct answer is the most boring of all the options. This was true within The Athletic’s annual MLB Player Poll, where Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was a popular man.
He was voted as the best player in the game today by his peers, even if it was somewhat of a given. Ohtani even had players trying to pick against him to not make things predictable.
“Forty-six percent of our voting pool named the two-time MVP as their pick for the best player in the sport. Several more players even acknowledged that Ohtani was the real answer, but they elected to provide a different response for fear of being too predictable.