Nov
24
Pujols named NL MVP, again
ByAlbert Pujols was unanimously named NL MVP today, beating out Hanley Ramirez and Ryan Howard by considerable margins, as you can imagine. The 29-year-old Pujols has been in the league for nine years, earning three MVP’s and seven top three finishes in the voting. He’s a machine.
Here’s the voting. Who voted for Jeremy Affeldt? I mean come on.
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Yunel Escobar got a 5th place vote? Really?
Who voted for Jeremy Affeldt? I mean come on.
Ohhhh the holds!!!
Jon Heyman
The same people that voted for Michael Cuddyer?
Matt Holliday got a 4th place vote.
didnt manny come in like 6th last year?
Todd Helton got a 3rd place vote. Top that.
When it’s all said and done he’ll go down as the greatest hitter off all-time.
After Dusty Pedroia.
/Gambraham’d
IETC.
How about of this era?
Find it very hard to say hes the best ever when thinking about Ted Williams.
Pujols is up there certainly…
But for pure contact hitter…my vote would go to Tony Gynn
Find it very hard to say hes the best ever when thinking about
Ted WilliamsBabe Ruth.Fixed.
Pretty Amazing Stat:
Joe DiMaggio
Career Home Runs: 361
Career Strike Outs: 369
He struck out on average…34 times a season LOL
that’s incredible
Dont forget the little fact about Williams missing prime yrs of his prime to fly fighter jets in Korea. Safe to say he probably left a thousand hits and 200 homers on the table.
http://riveraveblues.com/2009/.....ent-695367
But look at DiMaggio’s BABIP…..
Safe to say he probably left a thousand hits and 200 homers on the table.
With that bullpen porch they created specifically for him in RF that still stands today…you’re probably right.
Remember, Joe DiMaggio was a righty hitting at Yankee Stadium…where straight away LF was 402ft/415ft and left-center was 457ft.
Reply Fail. Sorry.
DiMaggio’s BABIP was .304. Right about average. What about it?
It was a joke(?) about how stupid of a stat BABIP is for hitters, because it penalizes low K rates and rewards high K rates.
Not my best, but no where near my worst joke.
I think, right now, Pujols is very close to that second tier of all-around offensive greatness with Mantle, DiMaggio, Musial, Mays, Aaron.
He’ll need at least another 5 years to crack the first tier of hitters: Ruth, Williams, Gherig, Bonds.
The first tier guys not only dominated, offensively, but did so for a lot of years.
I don’t know why it wasn’t letting me submit what I wrote…twice. Oh well.
Competition is probably better now, etc, and I’m not sure the best ever label is even meaningful. But Ruth’s career numbers are still astonishing. 342/474/690 for his career over 22 seasons. A 207 OPS+ compared to Pujols 172 OPS+ over 9 seasons (Ted William: 191).
The best is when Barry Bonds past the Babe and one reporter asked him if he felt he was better than Babe Ruth now that he’s passed him on the HR list…and he goes “I think the numbers speak for themselves.” and another reporter goes “Yeah? Well you better go out and get 100 wins too then” lol
All 4 major awards were correct this year. I’m impressed.
14 voters left Utley off. Buzz is getting the right guys to win, but after that it is all 1Bmen again. We haven’t learned anything.
Baby steps
and your expectations were…..
Why doesnt driving in runs and creating runs mean anything??? I guess Pujols shouldnt have won??
Next time we can give it to a middle infielder because he plays the tougher position
nobody said they don’t mean anything. just that other things mean more, like getting on-base. oh, and mr. pujols does that quite well too
No, Pujols should have won. Can you ever make a comment without putting words in someone’s mouth? And you hit on the key point- driving in runs AND creating runs. Utley was actually better than Howard at the combination of those two things. Throw in the fact that he does play a position where it would be harder to replace him, and you have a guy who should have finished 3rd at worst.
3rd at worst? Whaaaa? Jeremy Affeldt and Brad Hawpe easily outplayed Utley. Victorino too.
There’s something more wrong with Utley being left off that many ballots than just a 1B fetish. For whatever reason, people just don’t view him as the best Phillies player. It’s insane, considering his bat alone is worth more than Howard’s, but it’s true.
Maybe Jeter can hook him up with an Edge.
By the way, the guy who voted #1 for Miguel Cabrera wasn’t even from Detroit…he was from Seattle. Some guy wrote an article about it…mad that Mauer didn’t become the first catcher in history to win by unanimous vote.
NO WAY!!!!
POWERBARS!!!!
I don’t get it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M (SAFE)
You’re about 24 hrs late.
Zimmerman got hosed.
Yeah. Without him, they easily lose 100 games.
“Yeah. Without him, they easily lose
100110 games.”Don’t underestimate the importance of the 109-loss threshold.
If I were voting I would definitely put some scrubs at the end of the ballot. Who wouldn’t want to see Ross Gload on the MVP results?
+1
8th place – Royce Clayton
Why did Coghlan get a vote? I know he was ROY, but by no means was he even considered to be in the top 10 most valuable players of the NL.
Both Carpenter and Wainwright got more votes than Lincecum.
cards won, giants did not
Who had more RBI’s?
IETC
According to the MVP ballot, Chris Carpenter was the NL Cy.
And Mariano won the AL Cy young.
“The 29-year-old Pujols has been in the league for nine years, earning three MVP’s and seven top three finishes in the voting.”
And 8 top four finishes. He’s unreal.
Steroids.
I don’t think so. Pujols would definitely be in that group of players with Jeter and Mo that, if it ever came out they did steroids, I would stop watching baseball. Forever.
Why? What makes Pujols different than some of these other guys that got caught? Derek Jeter represents the face of baseball and everything every player should be. Albert Pujols just smashes the ball and quietly plays the game in St. Louis with everybody else down there (not named LaRussa – DUI)
Every single player that has put up superhuman numbers has gotten caught for the most part. The odds are against Pujols. Bonds, Arod, Manny, Ortiz, McGuire, Giambi, Sheffield, etc.
Agreed, but it goes much further back, steroids have been in the game for a long time.
I agree. If bodybuilders were using them in the 60′s and 70′s…I don’t see how baseball players wouldn’t be able to get their hands on them.
I think you would only be harming yourself, Colombo. Why does it make a difference to you who cheated? The fact of the matter is, many people cheated. Many people cheated in other ways well before steroids were invented. You apparently still enjoy the game with the knowledge that some of its stars have cheated. Given this history of cheating that you have tolerated to this point, why does the become so unwatchably impure just because it was one of the “sainted ones” that cheated?
Nothing about the game of baseball would change for me if it turned out that Jeter, Rivera, or Pujols took steroids. They would just be another in a long line of stars who besmirched their legacy by taking a PED.
A nicely turned double play would still look sweet; a diving catch in the outfield would still cause me to leap of my couch (in joy or disappointment); and the game would remain just as beautiful, if imperfect, as it has always been.
It’s a subjective thing. There is no set standard on how and who to vote for. Now I’m sure the guy who voted for Jeremy Affeldt really thought he was valuable.
He also gets every blogger to know his name and now search his stories and see what else hes done. Better for him.
I would really want to see how he can justify Jeremy Affeldt being the 10th most valuable player in the NL.
David Wright should garner more love in 2010, if he ever manages to hit more than a half dozen homers at Citi.
Are you implying he didn’t receive the consideration he deserved in 2009?
Adam Rubin could’ve thrown the Mets organization a bone and voted David Wright at #10. (j/k … Rubin would’ve caught some hell).
Not one Met player named. Wow. That caps off the kind of season the org endured. Anyways, i think Wright finishes top 5 next year.
I don’t know who would have been named, though I’m sure they have better candidates than Affeldt.
there are some wacky votes on that list.
and yes, Pujols is a machine.
derrick lee with a 2nd while being left completely off half the ballots qualifies as wacky to me
Say what you want, but Affelt like this reliever was a very important part of his team.
Why in the fuck is Chase Utley not higher up on this list? It’s fucking ridiculous that he consistently gets less consideration than Ryan Howard.
because chicks love the long ball
Dustin Pedroia is just better than Chase Utley and his numbers were wayyy better in 2008 than Chase Utley’s in any given year.
/BostonDirtDog’d
I hope the guy who voted for Affeldt comes out and says he did it to prove that the voting system is a mockery. Otherwise, he should have his vote stripped. It’s insane.
TWO different people voted for Affeldt…
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/e.....the-greek/
Back to Affeldt for a second, though.
I’ve got an MVP vote this year, and while I’m not going to reveal my selections until after the results are announced, I’m fairly certain I’ll reserve the 10th spot on my ballot for Affeldt.
He has a 1.84 ERA in a team-high 72 games and he’s been the most statistically dominant and impressive non-save earning relief pitcher in the NL. In terms of value, that ranks him pretty high in my book.
In terms of value, that ranks him pretty high in my book.
Just above the 3rd base coach? lol
Just above the 1st base coach, slightly below the 3rd base coach.
Albert Pujols…29…
To Quote Arsenio Hall: “Things that make you go Hmmmmmm………”