re: LeMahieu contending for AL MVP

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by Mike JohrendtAugust 16, 2019

Mike Trout pretty much has the American League MVP award wrapped up already. Seriously.
Continuing his torrid play in the MLB, Trout has been an unstoppable force for the Angels, and 2019 is another season to cement that.
The Houston Astros look to be the only team that has multiple players in the conversation that will fill out the rest of the MVP order.
The month of August usually brings out the real contenders for the MLB playoffs, while also cutting off pretenders who hung around too long. With that, the case for winning league MVP awards is also getting closer to being decided, and the American League is well on its way to finishing up that race.

Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout looks to be the runaway candidate at this point, and his complete domination and ownership of the AL looks to have reached yet another level for him. For a player that looks to be an Angel for life, Trout has been putting up crazy statistics, which is normal, but his 2019 season has been on another level.


For the remainder of the league, they will have a very, very tough time trying to conjure up some sort of competition to even sniff Trout. Considering other positional players, the likes of Rafael Devers, DJ LeMahieu, Carlos Santana and even Alex Bregman have all had solid seasons on their respective teams, but none even come close to the type of player and season that Trout has provided in 2019.

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