{"id":55616,"date":"2025-11-16T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55616\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T10:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T10:38:43","slug":"la-times-sends-depressing-message-on-angels-after-dodgers-shohei-ohtani-wins-second-straight-nl-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/55616\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Times sends depressing message on Angels after Dodgers\u2019 Shohei Ohtani wins second straight NL MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA Times sends depressing message on Angels after Dodgers\u2019 Shohei Ohtani wins second straight NL MVP<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> SP\/DH Shohei Ohtani<\/a>won his second straight NL MVP<\/a> on Thursday, earning a unanimous vote that was never in question<\/a>. Not coincidentally, the MVP win coincided with the Dodgers\u2019 second consecutive World Series victory.<\/p>\n

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Of course, these aren\u2019t Ohtani\u2019s first MVP awards. As a member of the Los Angeles Angels<\/a>, Ohtani was a two-time AL MVP. That included a unanimous AL MVP win during his final year in Anaheim in 2023.<\/p>\n

As The Los Angeles Times\u2019 Dylan Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> writes, though, those AL MVPS were the equivalent of training wheels, since not a single one came during a year where the Angels made the postseason.<\/p>\n

Hern\u00e1ndez claimed that Ohtani being on the Dodgers, not the Angels, is good for the MLB, since the ratings were up for the seven-game 2025 World Series<\/a> between LAD and the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOhtani had comparable seasons with the Angels, with whom he won his first two MVP awards. In retrospect, however, the six years he played in Anaheim almost feel as if they were an apprenticeship to prepare him for what he\u2019s doing now. The Dodgers have provided him with a stage worthy of his singular act,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is what\u2019s best for any league in any sport, for its signature athlete to be playing games that matter for one of its signature franchises. Baseball is now a regional sport, meaning teams and players are well known in the markets in which they play but not outside of them. Ohtani provides baseball with a national presence, especially now that he\u2019s playing in October.\u201d<\/p>\n

History will not look kindly at the era of MLB baseball where A., the Angels were called the \u201cLos Angeles Angels of Anaheim,\u201d and B., Ohtani, Mike Trout, and Albert Pujols were all on the same team and didn\u2019t make the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Three of the greatest hitters ever in one lineup, even if Pujols was on the decline by the time Ohtani arrived. Baseball malpractice.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers have solidified the Angels as \u201clittle brother,\u201d with the LA Times likening the latter to the minor leagues and the former to the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA Times sends depressing message on Angels after Dodgers\u2019 Shohei Ohtani wins second straight NL MVP originally appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2736,163,165,164,17935,47,2866,53,5128,7573,422,57,15896],"class_list":["post-55616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-albert-pujols","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-dylan-hernandez","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mike-trout","tag-mvp","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-unanimous-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}