HubertTheFishi feel like cal raleigh should definitely not win AL mvp. hes batting around 250 which is significantly lower than league average. aaron judge is batating 80 points higher and only has 9 fewer hrs.
You have to look at it a positional standpoint, he's playing catcher, one if not the hardest position in baseball. Your squatting for almost 2 hours, have to catch and FRAME 90-100 mph pitches that can break in either direction, oh yeah, you have to potentially block them so they don't go as a wild pitches.
but lets look it more in depth defensively and offensively:
1. Defensively, he's been amazing still at blocking
and catching wild pitches, and while his framing isn't as elite as last year, its been pretty decent still in getting strikeouts called. Not as elite as Patrick Bailey though... that guys been on a tear, just not offensively...
2. Offensively, yeah he's averaging .248, hes not hitting Buster Posey or Yadier Molina avg numbers, but hes HIT 60 homers in a single season, more than any catchers has done before in mlb history. In addition, driven 125 RBIs, 14 more than judge at the moment -- and you know how important runs are in game. Moreover, hes on track on beating Aaron judge's single season home run record also (if he can get three more homers), unless judge gets on a hot streak in October.
But, again, I'm not familar with how mlb choses its candidates; from online, its apparently its often decided by players fWAR? If its in that case, its probably Judge. Still, you can't deny Raleigh has made history this season, hope to see some post-season records broken by him.