The 2020 MLB season is quickly coming to a close. Here are the current favorites to take home the game’s most prestigious awards.
Ready or not, there are now less than four weeks remaining in the 2020 MLB regular season and the sprint to claim one of the 16 available playoff spots is currently on and sure to feature numerous exciting races.
Every win means a little bit more, every loss stings that much more, and embracing the weird has become a necessity to get to this point in 2020. Best of all, while it has been tough at times, it appears that every team is going to get their full 60-game schedule in, something many believed would be impossible at different points early on in the season.
As of August 2nd, we’ve seen the Los Angeles Dodgers dominate their way through the first 37 games of the season with 27 wins, the San Diego Padres have quickly become, arguably, the league’s most exciting team and made major moves at the trade deadline without sacrificing their top prospects, the Chicago White Sox are serious contenders to take the AL Central ahead of schedule, and the Miami Marlins are currently a playoff team.
Individually, San Francisco Giants outfielder Mike Yastrzemski has remained at or near the top of the Wins Above Replacement leaderboard all season (currently second at 2.1), Nelson Cruz is 40 years old but still playing as if he’s in his prime, Shane Bieber has been virtually unhittable, and for much of the first half of the season Los Angeles Angels starter Dylan Bundy was an early Cy Young candidate.
The 2020 MLB season has provided no shortage of impressive performances and there’s no sign that the entertainment will subside as the regular season wraps up.
This task wasn’t easy, but let’s try and predict who takes home MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year honors this year to cap off an exciting 2020 MLB season.