Pujols Wins NL MVP

by gondeee on Nov 17, 2008 3:42 PM EST in News Comment 18 comments

I thought Albert Pujols would win it by a greater margin than he did, with Ryan Howard finishing a strong second after coming on late in the season. The only Braves player receiving votes was Chipper Jones, who finished 12th, but did receive one second-place vote. I thought Chipper would have finished higher, but I suppose the combination of a 90-loss team and Chipper's power outage in the second half contributed to the poor showing.

Heck, after the shameful rookie of the year voting, I'm just glad that no NL writer voted for a player who was retired last season.

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Good job getting this one right, voters

too bad he doesn’t already have half a dozen of these.

by BraveBronco0121 on Nov 17, 2008 4:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I was thinking that exact same thought. MLB awards have become a joke!

by scstrato on Nov 17, 2008 4:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Way off topic......

I don’t really want to post this as a fanpost. Just an update from Arizona.
Today (Monday), Tyler Flowers hit HR #12 and Hanson’s line was:
5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 10 SO, ERA: 0.63

by secondbass on Nov 17, 2008 5:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

good lord. those two, especially hanson with his k rate, are just absurd.

by brndn on Nov 17, 2008 5:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

The Hard Ons aren’t going anywhere…

I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.

by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 17, 2008 5:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You better not stand up really suddenly then.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Nov 17, 2008 5:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

So the MVP goes to the best player

Not the most valuable? Because imo no MVP award should go to a player who’s team didn’t even reach the postseason. I know Howard won it two years ago and his team didn’t make the playoffs, but I think value to a team should indicate that his team was good enough to atleast make the playoffs.

by ChipperTeixeira89 on Nov 17, 2008 7:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I completely disagree

How good a players supporting cast is has absolutely no impact on how valuable that player is to the team, but the performance of the supporting cast DOES correlate to whether or not your team makes the playoffs.

It’s Most Valuable Player, not Most Valuable Player whose team makes the playoffs.

by scstrato on Nov 17, 2008 7:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If that is the case

Then NO WAY should Pedroia win the AL MVP. Justin Morneau is more deserving, is he not?

by ChipperTeixeira89 on Nov 17, 2008 10:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

AL is wide open. theres something like 5 players that can win, and it wouldn’t be a bad decision.

carlos quentin was the odds on winner until he got hurt.

Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.

by bigjoe on Nov 17, 2008 11:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Quentin was a show.

I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.

by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 18, 2008 9:25 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

howard wasn’t the best player on his team.

Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.

by bigjoe on Nov 17, 2008 7:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I’ll let my good friends over at FJM answer this one:

Albert Pujols Was Not A Good Enough Pitcher To Win The NL MVP.

I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.

by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 17, 2008 8:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

If Albert Pujols hit behind Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley, he would have had 493 RBI.

Pujols damn.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Nov 18, 2008 8:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Ha, my favorite line is the following:

Pujols should have lobbied to have St. Louis the city moved to Oregon, where his Cardinals would have won the NL West by two games and he would be lauded as a clutch MVP baseball superhero with quality intangibles and a leader with the uncanny ability to come through when it counts. But unfortunately, Pujols has never been good at getting entire cities to spontaneously change their geographical locations.

I guess I should be one to talk.
There's nights that I can't even walk.
There's days I couldn't give a fuck.
And in between is where I'm stuck.

by Smoltz's Beard on Nov 18, 2008 9:25 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Your argument = epic fail

by BraveBronco0121 on Nov 17, 2008 9:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

chipper finished something like 12th, and mccann didn’t get one solitary point. but hey, soto got points! so i guess he WAS better than mccann this year. BBWAA is a fucking joke, but at least they gave the award to the correct choice.

Following the Braves...one long hard drink at a time.

by bigjoe on Nov 17, 2008 7:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs