Fernando Tatis Jr. returns on Thursday, and oddsmakers are dealing him at the eighth-shortest odds to win NL MVP.
Two years ago, Fernando Tatis Jr. was a 22-year-old superstar with future MVP written all over him.
That came on the heels of a strong first two seasons, when he combined for 39 home runs and 27 stolen bases with a .301 average and .956 OPS in 143 games.In eight games in Triple-A El Paso, Tatis slashed .515/.590/1.212 with seven homers and two stolen bases in just 39 plate appearances. Projection models are a bit finicky with Tatis — whose expected games played in 2023 are all over the board — but they all agree on one thing: the San Diego star should be one of the two most productive players in the NL on a per-game basis, and he’ll be just three weeks behind the competition upon Thursday’s season debut.
If they do, and Tatis plays to expectation, he’d almost certainly get the lion’s share of credit for his team’s turnaround in a historic season — a strong narrative hook for an otherwise complicated MVP case.
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