Yankees' Aaron Judge, Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani Lead 2025 MLB MVP Straw Poll Voting

MLB's reigning MVPs are expected to take home their titles once again later this year.

Last year's American League MVP Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees and 2024 National League MVP Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers were the leading vote-getters in the latest MLB.com MVP poll, per Jason Foster.

A panel of 41 experts participated in the poll, and Judge received 40 first-place votes while Ohtani received 31.

Judge and Ohtani faced off this past weekend as the Dodgers won two of three games against the Yankees in a rematch of the 2024 World Series that L.A. won. New York managed to salvage some morale with a victory in Sunday's series finale.

Judge leads the majors with a .391 batting average and 86 hits while ranking third with 21 home runs and fourth with 50 RBI. He's helped lead the Yankees to the second-best record in the AL at 36-22.

Ohtani is tied for the MLB lead with 23 home runs following his solo blast in Monday's 4-3 loss to the New York Mets, which dropped the Dodgers' record to 36-24. He's also hitting .292 with 39 RBI and 11 stolen bases.

As two of baseball's biggest stars, Judge and Ohtani have shown no signs of slowing down as they try to lead their respective teams to second consecutive World Series appearances. If they keep this up, they will be filling their mantles with more hardware by season's end.