While many baseball analysts have argued over the past several weeks whether or not Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw should win the National League MVP, I'll decide for them - yes, he should. The main argument against a pitcher winning the Most Valuable Player award is the fact he plays in roughly 25% of the team's games. The Los Angeles Dodgers are 82-62 on the season, which places them 3.5 games up on San Francisco in the NL West and one game up on Washington for home-field advantage in the playoffs. Clayton Kershaw is 18-3 this season (.857). The Dodgers are 20-4 in games he's started (.833), and 17-1 since June 2nd (.944). Los Angeles is just 62-58 (.517) in games Kershaw doesn't start. The .517 winning percentage would place the team 5th in the National League (behind Washington, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh), and force them to play Pittsburgh in a 1-game playoff, the winner heading to Washington to take on the Nationals. So much...
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