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FOX记者与John Smoltz本周讨论的其中一项议题
Kavner: With Ohtani fast approaching a historic 50/50 campaign, do you think Fra
ncisco Lindor still has a chance to pass him for NL MVP with a big September?
Smoltz: That's where that conversation comes in: if Lindor helps the Mets get to
the postseason when nobody thought they had a chance, especially with their sta
rt. I felt like he was going to do this at some point, maybe in the last year an
d a half. It's been a tough transition for him, but I think now with the year he
's having, Mets fans are finally relieved to see he can be the guy that they tho
ught they got when they signed him to that megadeal.
So, he's definitely going to get a lot of votes, but it's going to be hard to pa
ss Ohtani based on what he's doing. I know he's a DH, and there's going to be a
lot of conversation around that, but he's doing things that no DH has ever done
before. So, I think this is going to be exciting down the stretch, but it would
take a historic September for Francisco Lindor, or anybody for that matter, to c
atch Ohtani.
讨论的前提还是Lindor带领大都会打进季后赛
Smoltz认为Lindor能办到的话肯定会拿到很多票，但基于大谷本季的表现，Lindor很难超越
他。
他知道大谷是DH，所以很多讨论/质疑都是由此开始，不过大谷办到过去从未有其他DH达成
的事。所以Smoltz的想法是竞争会变得激烈，但Lindor或其他挑战者需要在9月打出历史级
的表现才有可能追上大谷。
另外还有一题是问他觉得MVP投票该不该考量球队因素
How much do you think a player's value to his respective team — like in the cas
e of Lindor for the Mets and Witt for the Royals — should be a factor when peop
le are considering these MVP votes?
Smoltz: I think it's a tiebreaker. I've heard arguments on both sides, and I get
it. You take Ohtani off the Dodgers, they're still going to be really good, rig
ht? You take Lindor off the Mets, I don't know if they're going to be in the pla
yoffs. You can make that argument for certain teams, like with the Atlanta Brave
s and Marcell Ozuna. They're hanging on by a thread, but they wouldn't even be c
lose if it weren't for Ozuna. So, I think it's part of the conversation and the
narrative that can be for you, but could never really be against you because you
're being punished for playing on a really good team.
就Smoltz听过也明白这种争论：道奇少了大谷还是好球队，但大都会少了Lindor（或他举例
的勇士与Ozuna）不见得还能争季后赛。所以他觉得这可以在讨论中拿来当加分项，但不应
该用来扣分，不然很像在惩罚优秀球队的球员。
I think the MVP has been stretched in so many ways. The definition of the MVP aw
ard has been, you could probably get six different definitions of it, but it rea
lly should represent the best year a player has had in that league, regardless o
f the team they play on. I would navigate that toward a tiebreaker. If it's clos
e and the Braves or the Mets were to happen to get in because of those individua
ls, then I would say that you could vote for that as a tiebreaker.
他的想法大致上在说MVP有很多不同的定义，但这个奖项代表的应该是整个联盟最好的球员
，不管在哪一队。球队因素只有在很接近的情况下才能拿来当决胜点。
大概是这样