The 2010 Atlanta Braves Team Defensive MVP And LVP

conrad did make an error in each of the last 3 games against the phillies to close out the regular season.

also, melky is terrible.

I don’t see why the playoffs wouldn’t be factored in. This is a team specific award and the team made the playoffs. Other than that I agree with the choices.

Heyward is the clear choice for MVP considering the amount he played and how well he did it.

I give Glaus a pass for playing out of position and having the bad knees. Melky had no such excuses and Bobby for some reason thought he was good enough to start in CF many games. The Braves ran Melky out there a large number of games this season but they’ll use Adam Dunn’s lack of defense as part of their reason for not pursuing him this offseason.

I think he’s awesome. For some reason my favorite Braves have been journeyman players. Jeff Blauser and Greg Olson come to mind.

Sorry, but I’m voting Melky for LVP.

His routes were probably the worst I’ve ever seen. Ever.

Can’t we add a fudge factor to a few of his stats and make him the Defensive LVP? That infamous “throw” sideways that I’ve seen immortalized on YouTube kind of makes me wish there was a way to give it to him.

Only eight teams made it into the post season. The fans of the other 23 teams not only didn’t get even the taste of fall excitement that Braves fans enjoyed, but most of them had to resign themselves to a disappointing season by July.

The Braves made it into the post season by a one game margin, virtually every player on the team made contributions: our season would have been over two weeks ago were it not for Nate’s walk-off, or Brooks’, or Troy’s May, or Derek’s September —even the much maligned Melky had at least a couple of game-winners. This was a true team-effort and, from the standpoint of leading an overachieving group of players into the play offs, was perhaps as good a way to send Bobby out as one could hope for.

Even when they weren’t contributing they tried to do what they could for the team: Nate agreed to a prolonged stint in the minors and threw himself into rehabilitating his swing, then returned to make good contact with the ball and score at least one or two game winners (not even counting the grandslam he was robbed of in Florida).

Troy Glaus, a man whose legs barely got him around the basepaths for most of the summer, had the courage to volunteer to go down to triple-A and work out at third base, putting his body and prestige on the line (risking the kind of embarrassment and abuse that Brooks suffered these last two weeks) so that he would be in a position to turn a play that would have curtailed our post season if he had failed.

Then there’s Lowe, who struggled much of the year, but redoubled his already considerable efforts to fix himself and became the best pitcher in baseball in September.

Even though the owners put the team on a comparative subsistence budget, forcing Bobby and Frank to bet the farm on role players, rehab projects, and rookies, the team still managed to capture our imagination, buoy our spirits, and succeed beyond any reasonable expectation.

That this team made it as far as they did, even after losing a hall of famer, a 6 and 2 pitcher, and one of the season’s most dangerous hitters is something to be appreciative of and grateful for.

It’s a free country, you’re welcome to nitpick if you want, but to me it seems childish and ungrateful. It also cheats you out of some of the wonder that is baseball and that was this season.

Feel free to ban this ID and my other one, Joe C from Austin.