The Baseball Barista with Hunter Pence & Grant Brisbee are back and ready to breakdown the winners of the MLB Awards and Hunter talks about his time down in the Winter Leagues. The guys break down the NL MVP and who they think should have won. They talk about if the MVP award should come from a player on a winning team or not. They talk about the amazing season that Ohtani had and if they think he can keep this going. They discuss if WAR is a good stat to use in giving out awards. They debate the NL Cy Young and if number of innings pitched should be a bigger part of the voting. Hunter talks about the time he was in the Winter leagues and how exciting it was and how much they loved baseball down there. And they talk about what things in Winter Leagues that could be brought to MLB to make things more exciting.

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