November 12, 2002
Tejada MVP:
The AP article is on ESPN.com here.
I'm not surprised Tejada won the MVP, but I am surprised he won it by such a wide margin. I thought it would be fairly close between Tejada and A-Rod. Tejada is a very deserving candidate, and I'm not going to criticize the votes for him.
What I am going to criticize is that Rodriguez was almost beaten by Soriano. If you look at the complete voting, only twelve voters had A-Rod first or second; five had him worse than third. I can understand the argument for not voting A-Rod first (even though I don't agree with it), but I can't fathom any argument that he's not in the top two or three. And congrats to whoever voted for Soriano 10th. Anyone who had him above Giambi needs a good lesson in Sabremetrics.
Posted by David Pinto at
03:15 PM
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