When’s the last time a player locked up the league’s Most Valuable Player in the first two weeks of the season?

Well if you can’t remember, no worries, you are currently watching it happen.

Alex Rodriguez is off to the hottest start in league history. He set a new American League record yesterday hitting his 10th home run in 14 games and he is just four home runs away from tying Albert Pujols’ major league record for home runs in the month of April.

And yesterday, for the second time this season, A-Rod hit a home run to deep center field to complete a ninth inning Yankee comeback.

Whether you are a Yankee hater or a Yankee fan who hates Rodriguez, you have to respect what this guy is doing.

A-Rod is just simply dominating. Currently at .351 with 10 home runs and 26 RBIs, he could end up with numbers like .335, 51 and 142. If he keeps his average up, he could become the tenth player in the AL and the first since 1967 to win the Triple Crown.

The guy is just unreal. After yesterday’s home run, all you could think was, ‘Did he really just do that again?’

Now everybody is going to wait anxiously for him to fail and I hope he keeps proving everyone wrong. Yes, there will be a couple of times this year when No. 13 gets up to bat and doesn’t hit a game-winner over the fence, and yes, everyone will continue to look at his postseason numbers.

It’s hard not to look in the past and bring up his October shortcomings, and as a big-name Yankee, the postseason is an entirely new season. So to truly cap off an amazing season, he is going to have to lead the team and come up clutch when it really counts.

But this is a different A-Rod. He seems to be more relaxed and to be enjoying himself a lot more. In yesterday’s game, Cleveland closer Joe Borowski started off the at-bat throwing a wild pitch, moving the runners to second and third. And with a 1-0 count to A-Rod and a base open (logic would indicate you have to walk him) Borowski decided to go after A-Rod.

And A-Rod responded.

In the past, he might have taken a few pitches. Or he would have fouled off a couple of pitches before striking out on a high fastball. But not this year.

At lunch yesterday, before Rodriguez’s homer, I asked a ‘knowledgeable’ sports writer (whose name I won’t mention, but whose Cubs, I think, are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs already) who he thought could overtake A-Rod. After a long pause, a bunch of stuttering and more pausing, all I got was a shrug.

It’s the answer I expected and the same one everyone else will come up with. A-Rod is going to have the greatest April that any player has ever had and his dominance at the plate won’t stop when the summer starts. So let’s just give him his third MVP award now.

But more than an MVP award, he wants that World Series ring. There are still five more months before we look back at the amazing season and move on to postseason. So, until then, sit back, relax and enjoy the show, because it’s like no other you will ever see.