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Reply to "Poll - Trout, Cabrera or other for AL MVP"

Because of the outdated way many people think about this, in general and on this board is why we have MVPs like Jeff Borroughs, Andre Dawson with his .315 OBP, and Morneau when he isn't even the most valuable player on his team when he won the award. It's always some slug of a first baseman, third baseman or broken down knees outfielder who leads the league in RBI's. Of course most of these guys do this by hitting a lot of HRs too. They can't do anything else that helps a team win but "sure are clutch hitters". Of course when you bat third or fourth on a team and have a guy or two hitting .300 in front of you, you seem to be more "clutch" that year also.

Most people would vote for Cabrera whether his lines were .329/.393/602 or .329/.339/.602 with the same 44-137-.329 that he has now because they don't dig deep enough to see that those numbers describe a very different player in overall value. They ignore that half the time he is on the field, he actually hurts his team. Actually anytime he is out of the batters box, he is nothing special. I will agree that he has assumed Pujols' mantel as the best hitter in the game but it isn't his RBI total that proves this. You need to go deeper than than a freak combination of two outdated stats and HRs.
Last edited by Three Bagger
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