Well, it looks like all roads lead to Shohei Ohtani repeating as NL MVP this season and he's going to have a decent enough sample of innings on the mound to be considered a two-way player. That would be his third MVP as a two-way player along with the MVP from last season when he was only a DH.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/phillies as Phillies Star Kyle Schwarber Making Legitimate Case For MVP in Career Campaign. The Philadelphia Phillies are very much in the conversation in what is an extremely competitive National League with a number of teams that can make a real case as the favorite come October.

The Philadelphia Phillies' sturdy left-handed slugger definitely has prodigious power. And now, he has joined Ruth on one of the most impressive record clubs in MLB history, a group with five other players who are all legends. Schwarber has now hit 170 home runs from his ages 29 through 32 seasons.