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    Bill Plaschke: Trout and Bellinger deserve MVPs, but fans deserve more in postseason

    by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Nov 15, 2019 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - The hometown sweep of baseball's Most Valuable Player awards Thursday officially anoints Los Angeles as the center of the baseball universe!

    No, actually, that would be Washington.

    The American League MVP victory by the Angels' Mike Trout and the National League MVP win by the Dodgers' Cody Bellinger validates Los Angeles as baseball's city of stars!

    Yeah, in a sky that goes black in October.

    Despite the overwhelming temptation to declare the Trout and Bellinger triumphs as a win for Los Angeles, the truth is that it actually feels like a loss.

    We have two MVPs during a season in which our teams combined to win two playoff games?

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