MLB to Small Town America: Drop Dead

Law was right about the MVP.

 

No he wasn't.

 

Because the triple crown? Do you really still believe those are the 3 most important offensive stats?

I also don’t think it’s some egregious error. It was damn close, but if the only argument is the triple crown I think that’s lazy.

 

A minor league base ball team may mean more to a small town that a major league franchise to a large community. But decisions are generally made based upon gross revenues, not per capita revenues.

 

Mookie was the 2016 AL MVP.

 

Will MLB offer any financial support to the wooden bat collegiate leagues?

 

And would not be traded for Trout by the Sox.

 

This is the ancient argument that runs up against the historic truth that Most Valuable Player means whatever the voters decide it means and throughout history, the voters have had a slight but discernible bias in favor of one excellent player having his historically best year (in Cabrera's case, an historic year by any standards) over the guy who is generally considered the league's best player AND the obvious and large bias towards rewarding team success as part of the definition of valuable. For the record, I am generally in favor of bias 1 and against 2. But it's a useless argument because it's settled by the votes of now 30 individual and highly opinionated baseball writers. There will never be a universally agreed standard for MVP. JC was right in his second post. It was a close case. In close cases, there are going to be controversies.

 

My argument was never that Trout wasn’t deserving
Of course he was
But Cabrera had a historic year on a championship team
And a lot of Law’s argument was belittling Cabrera

 

Do you think George Bell was the 1987 MVP over Alan Trammell?

 

No

 

And that’s partly why the voters vote the way they do. Where else do you get to rehash a 33 year old argument? How else does the everlasting Schmuck who didn’t vote for Tom Seaver to get into the HOF get immortality? Some voters are just attention whores that want the light on them for the achievements of others.