I thought Albert Pujols would win it by a greater margin than he did, with Ryan Howard finishing a strong second after coming on late in the season. The only Braves player receiving votes was Chipper Jones, who finished 12th, but did receive one second-place vote. I thought Chipper would have finished higher, but I suppose the combination of a 90-loss team and Chipper's power outage in the second half contributed to the poor showing.
Heck, after the shameful rookie of the year voting, I'm just glad that no NL writer voted for a player who was retired last season.
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Good job getting this one right, voters
too bad he doesn’t already have half a dozen of these.
BraveBronco0121 - November 17, 2008
I was thinking that exact same thought. MLB awards have become a joke!
scstrato - November 17, 2008
Way off topic......
I don’t really want to post this as a fanpost. Just an update from Arizona.
Today (Monday), Tyler Flowers hit HR #12 and Hanson’s line was:
5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 10 SO, ERA: 0.63
secondbass - November 17, 2008
good lord. those two, especially hanson with his k rate, are just absurd.
brndn - November 17, 2008
The Hard Ons aren’t going anywhere…
Smoltz's Beard - November 17, 2008
You better not stand up really suddenly then.
royhobbs - November 17, 2008
So the MVP goes to the best player
Not the most valuable? Because imo no MVP award should go to a player who’s team didn’t even reach the postseason. I know Howard won it two years ago and his team didn’t make the playoffs, but I think value to a team should indicate that his team was good enough to atleast make the playoffs.
ChipperTeixeira89 - November 17, 2008
I completely disagree
How good a players supporting cast is has absolutely no impact on how valuable that player is to the team, but the performance of the supporting cast DOES correlate to whether or not your team makes the playoffs.
It’s Most Valuable Player, not Most Valuable Player whose team makes the playoffs.
scstrato - November 17, 2008
If that is the case
Then NO WAY should Pedroia win the AL MVP. Justin Morneau is more deserving, is he not?
ChipperTeixeira89 - November 17, 2008
AL is wide open. theres something like 5 players that can win, and it wouldn’t be a bad decision.
carlos quentin was the odds on winner until he got hurt.
bigjoe - November 17, 2008
Quentin was a show.
Smoltz's Beard - November 18, 2008
howard wasn’t the best player on his team.
bigjoe - November 17, 2008
I’ll let my good friends over at FJM answer this one:
Albert Pujols Was Not A Good Enough Pitcher To Win The NL MVP.
Smoltz's Beard - November 17, 2008
Pujols damn.
royhobbs - November 18, 2008
Ha, my favorite line is the following:
Smoltz's Beard - November 18, 2008
Your argument = epic fail
BraveBronco0121 - November 17, 2008
chipper finished something like 12th, and mccann didn’t get one solitary point. but hey, soto got points! so i guess he WAS better than mccann this year. BBWAA is a fucking joke, but at least they gave the award to the correct choice.
bigjoe - November 17, 2008
Eckstein should've won
Pujols clogged the bases too much.
TradeAndruw - November 17, 2008
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