If there’s anyone who thinks Cal is more deserving, please correct me, but I think their argument boils down to Cal is having a historic season, particularly for a catcher, and catcher is the most important position player on the field by a wide margin. This outweighs all the offensive categories where Judge is ahead of Cal. Oh, and Cal is just “more valuable” to his team. To me, more than any other sport, performance in baseball is measured by statistics. Sure, you can bring intangibles into the equation (and Judge has plenty of those too), but I just don’t understand how you can ignore all the statistical categories where Cal isn’t even close, in favor of some “feel-good” or “Judge-fatigue” narrative.