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

bball123100+ posts

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bball123,

The WTA (woman) and ATP (men) have a calculation on wins and tournaments entered to rank players. It is purely a math exercise. Baseball is much more subjective. In baseball, we have the pleasure of baseball writers (typically old guys) voting for these awards. Not the best system IMHO..

I have heard that there are some cases where a 2nd ranked player beat the top rank in a grand slam and still stay 2nd behind the top rank. And there are cases where a player never win a major tournament all year and is still ranked within to top ten.

10/8/124:08 PM

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