Judge, a giant who’s unreasonably agile for his size, checks the first box, but the context in which he hit 62 wasn’t especially inflationary compared to past legendary dinger years, even putting PEDs aside. (It’s not and never should be the overall record, but if you want to call it the highest homer total attained by someone not associated with steroids, sure, that’s true too.) Most record-setting seasons come from a confluence of extraordinary talent and conditions conducive to outlier years. (Relax-I’m going in alphabetical order.) Judge, who turned 30 in April, hit 62 homers, an American League record. For the following reasons, these seasons are too singular, sensational, and historically significant for only one party to “win.” Everyone who watched them won already.
#Great dragon spring grove free
(Cue the Eric Andre GIF.) Free your mind from the tyranny of first and second, the binary of best and second-best, the banality of victor and also-ran. That’s right: I’m taking a strong, divisive stance that both players are praiseworthy.
Whatever WAR says, though, a nonvoter isn’t bound to pit the two against each other. Single-season WAR doesn’t measure true talent, and it doesn’t necessarily reflect spectacle, excitement, or degree of difficulty-none of which must be admissible in the court of MVP opinion. You can sort by WAR without my help-Judge finished ahead, by one to two wins depending on the flavor, and there isn’t much to support the contention that the framework for the metric undervalues Ohtani by nearly enough to make up the shortfall. It’s not about which one was better or more valuable, whatever “valuable” means. This, then, is a Judge and Ohtani appreciation post. In this race, neither the winner’s nor the runner-up’s feats will be forgotten. If anything, the MVP outcome means less this season, from a legacy perspective, than it normally would. Either would run away with the award if not for the other. Who wouldn’t want to suit up with either Team Ohtani or Team Judge, or preferably both? The two titans of 2022 performed sports miracles that no one else came close to approximating. The fact that they happened to play in the same league, and that their remarkable campaigns coincided, doesn’t force us to throw in with Team Ohtani or Team Judge any more than it obligates us to wring our hands, lose sleep, or send impassioned tweets about whether, say, Daulton Varsho was more valuable than Willy Adames. They don’t play the same positions, they aren’t division rivals, and they aren’t reaching free agency at the same time. Judge and Ohtani aren’t going head-to-head in the playoffs, and they aren’t competing for the same roster spot. There’s no harm in having the debate for fun, of course, or as an intellectual inquiry into how we determine value in baseball, but often the topic turns contentious and territorial, a reason to tear down instead of celebrate. (Or, if they were, the hot-take tablets and scrolls were lost to history too.) Other ancient structures may have been-in MVP parlance-“in the conversation,” but when you’re a Wonder of the World, you’re above such squabbles. Colossus of Rhodes, or Statue of Zeus at Olympia? Two impressive sculptures. Great Pyramid of Giza, or Mausoleum at Halicarnassus? Both great tombs. Nor need we burnish one superstar at the other’s expense. Their decision, which won’t be revealed until November, doesn’t change the astounding sights and stats that we’ve already seen for ourselves, and the rest of us needn’t abide by it. The only people who have to choose sides and elevate one awe-inspiring season over the other are the 30 voters who’ll submit their ballots before the first pitch of the postseason this Friday. Initially, the Spring Dragon was available at level 11, but the level availability was changed on October 9, 2013, to level 16.Here’s a secret about the AL MVP debate surrounding Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani: You and I don’t have to have it.The Spring Dragon is the first limited epic dragon with the Seasonal element.Backflip Studios indicated in a Facebook post and the in-game notification that the Spring Dragon will be available for the entire Spring season ("mid-June").
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