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    Bill Plaschke: The race is over, the Dodgers' Mookie Betts should be National League MVP

    While the Dodgers appear destined to finish behind the Atlanta Braves for the National League's best record, another race between the two teams is still very much in doubt. But it shouldn't be. As the ballots are filed around the country, a Dodger and a Brave are sprinting neck-and-neck toward the National League Most Valuable Player award. But the duel is already over. The clear MVP is the ...
    by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Sep 14, 2023 4 minutes
    Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates toward his bullpen after his RBI single against the Boston Red Sox during the eighth inning at Fenway Park on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Boston.

    While the Dodgers appear destined to finish behind the Atlanta Braves for the National League's best record, another race between the two teams is still very much in doubt.

    But it shouldn't be.

    As the ballots are filed around the country, a Dodger and a Brave are sprinting neck-and-neck toward the National League Most Valuable Player award.

    But the duel is already over.

    The clear MVP is the Dodgers' Mookie Betts, not the Braves' Ronald Acuña Jr., period, election over, I'm calling it, and anything different would make one wonder what the voters are watching.

    If they're watching value, it's

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