September 29, 200817 yr awards AL MVP-Justin Morneau (by far the hardest award to pick) Cy Young-Cliff Lee ROY-Evan Longoria MOY-Joe Maddon NL MVP-Albert Pujols Cy Young-Tim Lincecum ROY-Joey Votto MOY-Lou Piniella
September 29, 200817 yr AL MVP-Pedroia Cy Young-Halladay ROY-Cuban Missle MOY-Maddon NL MVP-Pujols Cy Young-Sabathia ROY-? MOY-?
September 29, 200817 yr Worst hitter of the year: Tony Pena Jr. Worst starting pitcher of the year: Carlos Silva. Honorable mention to Livan Hernandez Worst defensive player of the year: Mark Reynolds. Worst relief pitcher of the year: Ehren Wassermann
September 29, 200817 yr AL MVP-Dustin Pedroia (As much as I hate it) Cy Young-Cliff Lee ROY-Evan Longoria MOY-Joe Maddon NL MVP-Manny Ramirez Cy Young-CC Sabathia ROY-Geovony Soto MOY-Lou Piniella
September 30, 200817 yr AL MVP - Pedroia (#2 Quentin #3 Sizemore #4 Morneau) CY - Lee (#2 Halladay #3 Lester) ROY - Longoria (#2 Ramirez/Aviles #4 Span) MOY - Madden NL MVP - Pujols (and it's not particularly close) CY - Santana (#2 Lincecum #3 Sabathia) ROY - Soto (#2 Votto) MOY - Torre
September 30, 200817 yr AL: CY: Cliff Lee MVP: Justin Morneau, better f***ing not be Pedroia I just hate him ROY: Longoria MOY: Maddon NL: CY: Lincecum MVP: Pujols ROY: Soto MOY: Torre, I just don't feel you can give Pinella the award since his team was favored to win the division. Edited September 30, 200817 yr by ChWRoCk2
September 30, 200817 yr what on earth has Justin Morneau done to deserve MVP consideration? you know, other than hit behind 3 guys that get on at a .386, .336, and .415 clip respectively. Pedroia should be the MVP of the league. His OPS+ is lower than Morneau's, but, without even looking, I imagine his VORP is a ridiculous amount higher. Honestly I'd prefer Hamilton winning the MVP over Morneau.
September 30, 200817 yr QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 30, 2008 -> 12:32 AM) what on earth has Justin Morneau done to deserve MVP consideration? you know, other than hit behind 3 guys that get on at a .386, .336, and .415 clip respectively. Pedroia should be the MVP of the league. His OPS+ is lower than Morneau's, but, without even looking, I imagine his VORP is a ridiculous amount higher. Honestly I'd prefer Hamilton winning the MVP over Morneau. I looked up their numbers earlier and it wasn't even close. Pedroia finished with an identical number to Utley, 62.3 I believe. Amongst probable AL MVP candidates (not counting Sizemore who actually finished with a higher VORP than Dustin) Mauer was the closest, being a catcher and all, at 56.4. Quentin, who only played 5 months this year actually finished at 52 something. Morneau? 27th in baseball at 46.4. Hamilton was 57 something. Oh and Albert Pujols finished with a VORP of 96.7 which is by far the highest in the game. If anyone else wins the NL MVP I'll be pissed. The Twins offense has a reputation for being pretty weak but the top 3 guys tend to get on base. Justin Morneau gets an absurd amount of RBI opportunities.
September 30, 200817 yr AL MVP - Pedroia CY - Lee ROY - Ramirez should but it will go to Longoria MOY - Madden no one else deserves a vote in comparison NL MVP - Braun Or Manny (I think he drove in 1/3 of the dodgers runs since arriving, sick) CY - Lincecum ROY - gotta be Sotto MOY - Torre, apparently not any manager can win with the NYY payroll, it takes a great one.
September 30, 200817 yr As much as I hate Pujols (and yes, Mr. Rolen will be smiling in __ years when it's all said and done when people find out about the "real" Pujols) he definitely is the MVP. Really only Manny (and the oogly 1.232 ops) is around Pujols but Manny doesn't have enough ab's in the NL unfortunitely. The Dodgers wouldn't be in the playoffs though without him. BTW, I don't care what anyone thinks of him, I luv me sum Manny.
September 30, 200817 yr I think half of the awards are pretty much guarantees: AL CY - Lee (halladay wins it any other year) AL ROY - Longoria (alexei's become my favorite player, but longoria has just been better) AL Manager - Maddon (still cant believe the rays won the east) NL ROY - Soto (so much for the Fukudome hype) The other four leave more room for debate: AL MVP - Morneau (he leads the league in RBIs on a team that no one thought had a chance to compete, let alone tie for the division, CQ missing sept. costs him, although the Sox struggles show how valuable he was, Pedroia has been good, but if you look at the numbers, he might not even be the best on his team, Youkilis's number are similar, if not better and I hate the guy) NL MVP - Pujols (his numbers were just unbelievable for a team that had no right even sniffing .500, let alone staying in the race til August, CC & Manny did carry their teams into the playoffs, but I just have a tough time giving the award to players who only spent 2 months in the league) forgot about Ryan Howard, he definitely needs to be in the discussion as well, but he has some other good players on that team that helped him NL CY - Lincecum (the numbers he put up are staggering, especially the Ks, and the fact that he got 17 wins on a bad team with no offense says a lot, all apologies to Webb, Johan, and CC, who are all deserving as well) NL Manager - Torre (last year the Dodgers struggled cause of clubhouse problems, and he got them together all on the same page, Pinella has done a great job with the Scrubbies, but they easily have way more talent than any other team in the NL, so he was expected to do well) Edited September 30, 200817 yr by LittleHurt05
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