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Old April 2nd, 2007, 09:25 AM   #16
 
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Himself, his team (would have been worse?), fantasy teams everywhere? Its nearly impossible to answer that logically in reality.
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Old April 2nd, 2007, 11:09 AM   #17
 
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Again, just a question that I always ask and can never get a good answer to.... When Arod won the MVP while on the last place Rangers... who was he valuable to?
A good question. He was in fact valuable to every team in the league because without him attendance for all Rangers games would have been less.

His stats were such that the voters just felt that he had to get the award.

The beauty of the MVP is the fact that are no established statistical criteria. if there were there would be no discussion about it and no one would care.

The best MVP debate I remember was 1978/Jim Rice-Ron Guidry. They both put up historical numbers for winning teams. The Yanks won the series and Guidry went 25-3 with a sub 2.00 ERA. Rice was an offensive monster. The argument was that pitcher shouldn't qualify as MVP. Rice won the MVP, Guidry and the Yanks won the playoff, pennant and world series.
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Old April 2nd, 2007, 11:30 AM   #18
 
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Another good debate. Pitchers have the Cy Young.Get the Batters an equal
best player award ,and then clearly define the MVP.
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That's what I don't know. What if Rocco Baldelli hits 70 home runs 150 RBI
.381 BA and the Devil Rays win 59 games.I say he's the MVP.
The great Rocco pulled up lame in his first at bat running to first, those 70 HR may need to wait.
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Old April 2nd, 2007, 03:11 PM   #20
 
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Rocco injured.Shocker!
Poor D Rays. Time to re-re-re-re-re build.
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The great Rocco pulled up lame in his first at bat running to first, those 70 HR may need to wait.
He did get to bat 4 times today however.
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Old April 2nd, 2007, 03:26 PM   #22
 
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That's already more than in 2005
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That's already more than in 2005
Rocco=MVP.
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Don't you think that the writers are biased in some instances. How can you see them as a "fair" vote?
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Don't you think that the writers are biased in some instances. How can you see them as a "fair" vote?
Well of course they are, but so is everyone else. Its the only "fair" way to do it. Fans would be even more biased... and players would be basing their vote on what little they have seen. And mostly what they have heard from the writers.
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Don't you think that the writers are biased in some instances. How can you see them as a "fair" vote?
Fair has nothing to do with it. In 1978 NY fans thought the vote was unfair, Boston fans didn't.

If you make the MVP subject to specifiic criteria(i.e. particular stats) you remove any real debate. We never argue over who really deserved the batting title, you either led the league or didn't.

The MVP system allows subjective anaylsis and voting and that is why it is a great award. Old Red Sox fans still seeth over Ted Williams not winning the 1941 MVP despite winning the Triple Crown. Albert Belle beat Mo Vaughn in ever statistical category in 96(?) and still didn't win.

I like the MVP system just as it is, fair or not.
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