{"id":876887,"date":"2026-08-30T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876887\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T09:55:48","slug":"updated-2026-mlb-nl-mvp-odds-for-pete-crow-armstrong-shohei-ohtani-after-cubs-stars-3-hr-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876887\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated 2026 MLB NL MVP Odds for Pete Crow-Armstrong, Shohei Ohtani After Cubs Star’s 3 HR Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong is an overwhelming -1100 favorite (per FanDuel Sportsbook<\/a>) to win the National League’s MVP award after his three-homer, six-RBI performance amid a 17-5 home win over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong is now hitting .282 (.944 OPS) with 36 home runs, 89 RBI and a .944 OPS. He also has 32 stolen bases, putting a 40-40 season in play. PCA is also third in defensive runs saved (14) among all MLB center fielders, per The Fielding Bible<\/a>. He’s second in OAA (outs above average) with 23 among all fielders, per Baseball Savant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Crow-Armstrong is having an amazing season for the 77-59 Cubs, who are second in the NL Central and first in the NL Wild Card race. They look destined for the playoffs thanks in part to PCA’s work.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is second on the MVP odds list at +600. He’s a four-time MVP (and reigning back-to-back NL MVP after winning two AL MVP’s with the Los Angeles Angels in 2021 and 2023). <\/p>\n

For the season, he’s hitting .283 (.921 OPS) with 30 home runs and 80 RBI. The star pitcher has also gone 8-2 with a 1.79 ERA (0.95 WHIP) and 95 strikeouts over 85.2 innings. Unfortunately, he’s currently off the mound<\/a> due to left knee and right biceps issues.<\/p>\n

Ohtani is still at designated hitter and making a huge impact for the NL West-leading Dodgers (81-55). Naturally, he’s getting MVP consideration given his tremendous success this year.<\/p>\n

However, the MVP race is Crow-Armstrong’s to lose at this point, especially after his fantastic Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong is an overwhelming -1100 favorite (per FanDuel Sportsbook) to win the National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-876887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}