The 2024 Major League Baseball regular season is just about over. Sunday's slate wrapped Game 162 for 28 of 30 teams, the culmination of a six-month-long slog that ends -- for a lucky few -- with the playoffs.

He has been even better than Shohei Ohtani has been having his own season for the ages on the other side of the country.

Throughout the season the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the future of baseball, all sorts of stuff. Last week we picked between baseball's many Jacksons. This week we're going to tackle the AL wild-card race.

Congratulations, you made it! The 162-game marathon is finally over (minus Monday’s Mets-Braves doubleheader), which means there are no more ageless veterans performing like they discovered the fountain of youth to add from the waiver wire.

Aaron Judge finished the 2024 season leading the league in a number of stats. The New York Yankees ended their season on Sunday with a 6-4 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The captain was out of the lineup for the final regular season game concluding his historic year.

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge are arguably the two most talked about MLB players this season.

This has been the case on an annual basis since 1924, though there have been MVPs as far back as 1911. For decades, the league split made perfect sense. The two leagues didn't play each other at all.