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The 2019 regular season has reached its end and, before the playoffs begin, writers from across America will be sending in their votes for the Most Valuable Player in both leagues.
While Angels superstar Mike Trout wowed fans with his greatness for five months and Houston’s Alex Bregman made a late charge in the mind of many baseball beat writers — there’s another man that has quietly outperformed the field this year.
He doesn’t have a $400 million contract and he didn’t even slug 30 homers, but the most consistent, indispensable, and “valuable” player in the American League this season is the Yankees’ DJ LeMahieu — and it’s not even that close.