Justin Morneau is the AL MVP

Somebody please tell me how Mauer is more valuable than the guy who drove in all the big runs?
This team did not start winning until Morneau started hitting.
As I said yesterdy, Morneau 1, Jeter 2 was the right pick.

And if .321, 34 HR, 130 RBI, 190 hits, 97 runs scored are bad numbers for an MVP....what does a guy have to do?

 

Jeter didn't win it? Then it sounds like a great choice to me.

 

All of your comments are interesting. But I have only one thing to add. I believe at least one of us was correct when he wrote that Howard and Morneau would win the MVP votes. And the question was WOULD, not SHOULD win. If anyone wants to check on previous MVP threads, I think you'll find the answer, thank you very much.

That said -- and knowing the majority of you will disagree, but I hardly care -- I congratulate the voters on two difficult jobs well done.

And with that, I think I'll go to sleep. As you get older, that's what happens. (Some day, you'll know that, too).

 

spnited, what's wrong with you? actually posting some hard data instead of throwing out 'this is a bad choice'? geez.

 

Yes, and the team wasn't winning because Morneau sucked in the first couple months. Morneau's slumping helped to put his team in a big hole. If it weren't for Mauer hitting like mad while Gardenhire was handicapping his team further with Juan Castro and Tony Batista playing in front of Jason Bartlett and Nick Punto, the Twins would've been buried.

Mauer also finished with a higher OPS than Morneau. It ain't like Mauer was hitting singles.

 

Stephen Colbert stops by.

 

Geez, he should have started hitting before June then.

 

Hate to tell you Mungo, but Mauer was hitting mostly singles...128 of his 181 hits were singles.

 

HAHAHAHAHHA

Travis Hafner: 42 HR/117 RBI/100 runs scored, .308/.439/.659
Justin Morneau: 34 HR/130 RBI/97 runs scored, .321./.375/.559

If Hafner doesn't miss the last month of the season, does that make him MVP?

 

Probably.

 

I promised spnited that I'd sing "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and "Daydream Believer" to him.

 

Don't forget a grand total of 2 HRs in September. He was awful early, good late, and had a great June & July. A joke of a pick. Mauer, Santana, Jeter, Dye & Hafner were all defensable choices. I wouldn't even have Morneau next, and I happen to like him, and think he's a great player.