{"id":790333,"date":"2026-07-10T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790333\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T01:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T01:00:33","slug":"handing-out-the-midseason-hardware-to-mlbs-best-and-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790333\/","title":{"rendered":"Handing out the midseason hardware to MLB&#8217;s best \u2014 and worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to hand out some midseason awards.<\/p>\n<p>NL MVP<\/p>\n<p>Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers. Who else? In the human division, Pete Crow-Armstrong is doing it all (but not pitching).<\/p>\n<p>NL LVP (Least Valuable)<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Tucker. The Mets may have <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/16\/sports\/dodgers-kyle-tucker-in-search-of-consistency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dodged a $60M-a-year bullet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AL MVP<\/p>\n<p>Yordan Alvarez, Astros. His torrid hitting has kept the Astros in contention in a weak AL. Ben Rice and Nick Kurtz are prototype lefty sluggers having nice years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to hand out some midseason awards. NL MVP Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers. Who else? In the human&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,7305,179993,591,372553,5149,85,2136,735],"class_list":["post-790333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-kodai-senga","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-awards","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}