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Who should win the NL MVP?

Rick Reuben wrote:I think you have to add Aramis Ramirez on there, even though he's a slug in many ways. If the Cubs don't have another historic collapse, he'll get votes- Soriano, too, after his last month.

David Wright should be considered, too.

I'll think about it and vote later.

AL is A-Rod, which is weird, because he's probably finished as a yankee after this season.

yeah, I just put the ones from this article:

http://sportsline.com/mlb/story/10374407

Either Matt Holiday or David Wright.

Aramis?

Not even Top 5.

-Jeremy

Four weeks ago I would have said the NL MVP and ROTY should come from the same team: Fielder and Braun. Now, I still think they should come from the same team, but it's Holliday and Tulowitski.

it's hard to base judgments off of numbers. take for instance SOs of which:

rollins: 84
holiday: 123
fielder: 118

Rollins obviously makes a lot of his outs by hitting the ball, but that also might mean he makes more RBIs that way. His batting position (1st) is not great for high RBI numbers though.

fielder and holliday both 4th and 3rd respectively, which are also easier positions to hit in.

However, it seems that the MVP is always based up offensive numbers, but baseball of course is a defensive game and the other two don't match up at all against rollins in that dept.

oh, by the way, rollins has 19 triples.

madlee wrote:However, it seems that the MVP is always based up offensive numbers, but baseball of course is a defensive game and the other two don't match up at all against rollins in that dept.

Exactamundo. That's why it should be Jake Peavy.

alandeus wrote:

madlee wrote:However, it seems that the MVP is always based up offensive numbers, but baseball of course is a defensive game and the other two don't match up at all against rollins in that dept.

Exactamundo. That's why it should be Jake Peavy.

Jake Peavy plays a whopping 33 games a year. So, using simple logic, if the Padres won every game he started, and only those games, they would win 33 games in a year. Definitely not enough to make the playoffs. He should be content to win the Cy Young.

-Jeremy

The best player in the National League in 2007 has not been mentioned.

Maybe I'll get him in the sixth round of my fantasy draft in 2008 like I did in 2007 since .332 /.387/.558 in over 600 ABs seems to fly under the radar these days.

oucheh wrote:Jake Peavy plays a whopping 33 games a year. So, using simple logic, if the Padres won every game he started, and only those games, they would win 33 games in a year. Definitely not enough to make the playoffs. He should be content to win the Cy Young.
-Jeremy

If the Mets got a hit from David Wright in every game he played, and only hits from David Wright, I don't think that they would win 15 games. So in essence, you're saying Peavy is twice as good. Thank you.

Rick Reuben wrote:

vockins wrote:The best player in the National League in 2007 has not been mentioned.

Hanley Ramirez has been mentioned in some of the MVP guessing around the web, but I can't give MVP to a player on a team out of the playoffs.

Yes, and it's most valuable player, not hitter. Rob Halford is spinning in his grave at Hanley's abuse of the leather.