November 19, 2007
26 Out of 28
Alex Rodriguez took home his third MVP award today, with 26 of 28 writers listing him first on the ballot. Magglio Ordonez received the other two first place votes.
A-Rod picked up his third career MVP award, joining an exclusive list that includes just eight other players, including Yankees legends Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra. Barry Bonds leads the list with seven MVP awards, while Roy Campanella, Jimmie Foxx, Stan Musial and Mike Schmidt have won three each.
I'm somewhat surprised Vlad Guerrero finished ahead of David Ortiz. David had an incredible offensive year, but I guess the full time DH gig did him in. Congratulations to Alex on a well deserved MVP. He easily could have won five by now.
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The only reason that Roy Campenella has 3 MVPs is that one NL voter in 1955 meant to give his 1st and 2nd place votes to Campenella & Duke Snider, but he wrote in Campenella on both lines and Snider got aced out of winning MVP. Believe it. Not the only writer vote award fiasco to occur. In 1962 an NL writer gave his 4/5/6 NL MVP votes to career AL players Mantle, Kaline, & Runnels. Long time NYC writer Dick Young is the source of the above info.
Well Ortiz really felt the prejudice against DH last year when he was clearly the front runner for MVP. If he could not get it last year he probably never will with the mindset of the voters.
Where does it say no one outbid the Red Sox? There were reports that he had 4 other offers all for 4 years and for slightly more money annually.
sorry but wtf were those 2 guys thinking who voted for Ordonez?
Homer votes. Both 1st place votes for Ordonez came from Detroit writers.
Since when was Ortiz a front-runner in 2006? That's certainly a new one. Especially for a third-place team that faded badly?
