FOR THE NEXT three days, baseball's two finest players this year will share the field at Yankee Stadium. It's a cause for celebration and mutual appreciation -- because as much as Aaron Judge and Bobby Witt Jr. are spurring a debate over who deserves the American League MVP award, they're on the verge of reaching the hallowed sort of level that will tie them together in history, not pit them against one another.
In the hundreds of thousands of individual baseball seasons played since MLB's modern era began in 1920, only 46 times has a player finished a year with at least 10 wins above replacement, as calculated by FanGraphs.