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'He Wants To Dominate': Will This Be Astros Slugger Yordan Alvarez’s MVP Year?

ANAHEIM, Calif. — With Aaron Judge on the injured list and Shohei Ohtani thriving in the other league, the door is open for a new contender to win the American League MVP award for the first time since the shortened 2020 season. Is this finally Yordan Alvarez’s year to take home the honor? "It’s something I think every player wants, but right now I’m not thinking about that," Alvarez told me through his interpreter earlier this week in Anaheim. "I’m not that type of player, to have that kind of pressure that I have to win that award." It’s not that the Houston Astros slugger can’t handle it, t...