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11/14/2005: "One down"


In a surprise move Clutch God/Biggest of the Papis David Ortiz lost to Alex Rodriguez in the race for AL MVP. It's not like this should have been tough; A-Rod is a surefire Hall of Famer who had his best season with the bat in his career--.321/.421/.610--and played an above-average third base. Ortiz had pretty much the same season he had last year, in which he placed fourth in the balloting, gave up 20 points of OBP to Rodriguez despite playing in a hitter's park, and oh by the way played all of ten games in the field, during which he managed a fielding percentage of .976 and gracewise made Frank Thomas look like Thurman Thomas. He wasn't even the best DH in ESPN territory--that Jason Giambi was pretty good.

What does this mean for the NL MVP race, where the two best players in the league battle the second best center fielder on the NL Gold Glove team? Well, one can only hope that this wasn't some backroom deal worked out between the sabermetric believers and the Plaschke-ites; Annnndruw is an even less-deserving candidate than Ortiz. I hope it's Pujols, obviously, but Lee's got a fine case, too.

This also proves the maxim that one should never, ever, ever pay attention to the bottom of the results. Somebody honestly thought that Bob Wickman was the eighth most valuable player in the American League last year. Someone--someone who is supposed to be an EXPERT on sports, someone who's trusted enough to vote for the Hall of Fame, someone who's a member in good standing of the BBWAA--thought that, not only was Ortiz better than A-Rod, Vladimir Guerrero was better than both of them. Jhonny Peralta, who put together an .885 OPS as a shortstop, had zero votes. Not a one. Chone Figgins had five, Jorge Cantu and Jose Contreras had one, but a shortstop with a .520 slugging percentage got zip. Figgins, I think, wins the inexplicable multiple vote award for this year; despite being basically league average with the bat, he got as many votes as Giambi and Bartolo "Cy Young?" Colon combined. I'm not condemning all sportswriters--I might become one myself--but really, please don't vote unless your IQ is higher than Chris Carpenter's batting average.

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on Monday, November 14th, CalvinPitt said

An IQ higher than Carp's BA? Well, that pretty much rules out anyone who appears on an ESPN show.

My prediction? Andruw's defense is wildy overrated, Albert is robbed again, and says nothing. But at the start of the season, every at-bat Albert has, a foul ball finds the skull of one of the fools who voted for Jones. Albert then becomes first person to win the MVP award before Tax Day.



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