November 20, 2007
NL MVP
The NL Most Valuable Player award will be announced this afternoon, and ESPN experts are squarely in the the Jimmy Rollins corner. According to win shares, Rollins wasn't even the best shortstop in the league, nor the best player on his team. Win shares does give the award to David Wright, and I'm interested to see how the voting plays out. Most of the really deserving candidates, Wright, Pujols, Miguel Cabrera, and Hanley Ramirez didn't play for winners.
As a side note, how can you have two position players at the level of Ramirez and Cabrera and not post a winning record? What really irks me about the Marlins is that if they tried just a little, they could easily win the NL East.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Hanley and Cabrera's fielding really hurts their value. I've got them both between 11th and 15th, near Rollins.
My clear top four (in order) are Wright, Pujols, Utley, and Chipper. (I don't use any "team makes playoffs" or "team leader" voodoo in my decisions, for the record.
Semi-related question (via fielding). Any chance you could use the play-by-data from PMR to take a look at any effect Coors has on fielding? It's obvious that Coors allows more balls in play and lets good fielders show off their skills more, but does it possibly make batted balls easier to catch? Could you run some controls using CO players home and away compared to opponents home and away?
Holliday is going to win the award. The vote won't be close.
If I had a vote, I'd put Holliday too.
You really are a dumbass - when you have no pitching you lose
When you have no pitching, you lose. Except when you're the Phillies