2012 MLB Regular Season Running Thread

Jeter isn't even the top MVP candidate on his own team, don'tcha know.

What keeps Jetes in mere discussion is the runaway leaders are coming back to the pack. Trout (despite his ridiculous WAR) is on a team that was double-digit games back for an hour or two yesterday. Hamilton has the power numbers but a two-month slump killed what would've been a Hack Wilson-type year. Cabrera has offensive value but that's it. My vote is Trout-Cano-Cabrera.

 

Not quite 109 years. Frank Farrell and Bill Devery pretty much went broke owning the Highlanders. It wasn't until Jacob Ruppert and Col. Huston owned the team that they started spending money.

 

Manky isn't talking about using career accomplishments as a tiebreaker if all things are equal. He's saying that even if a player is clearly superior to his hero, as Joe Mauer was in 2009, that should be trumped by Jeter's career accomplishments. The MVP is a single-season award. I'd say Manky doesn't get but he does. He just spouts ridiculous crap even he doesn't believe to try to start arguments.

 

Close enough for government work.

 

I think Trout is going to have a great career but you don't win MVPs batting .290.

 

He's not batting .290. He's batting .337, 14 points higher than Captain Jetes.

 

When a player repeatedly has great seasons but doesn't get an MVP award, they build up credit. There was an article I read that found Jeter is the greatest player in MLB history to never win an MVP. In fact, many lesser players have won it. Pedroia, Mauer, Rollins, etc. The MVP award loses some of it's meaning when the best players can't win it.

 

The classic example of this is Willie Stargell in 1979. He only played about half the season, and he had 10 seasons that were better but he had been snubbed so many times they had to give it to him that year.

 

Codifying what we already knew, announcers use racially-tinged buzzwords to describe baseball players:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/how-baseball-announcers-subtly-favor-american-players-over-foreign-ones/261265/

 

Joe Mauer is going to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

 

Trout isn't batting .290. He's batting .337. Try harder, troll.