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2007 NL MVP: Wright or Pujols (flag)
skyking162.com — Unlike in the AL, where ARod was the obvious choice , nobody seems to agree on who the NL MVP is. In fact, none of the front-runners (Rollins, Holliday, Fielder) are top-five material. I’d be ok if any of the top four guys listed below end up winning it. Here are the details of the rankings: Only position players are included, because I don’t yet have a good system for pitchers. ...

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The Over-Statisticalization of Baseball (if that’s a word)
Home Run Derby — ... , which has a great tag line, “baseball with a hint of lime.”  His latest post, and the basis for his comment , uses the statistical measure, total runs above replacement value (TVAR) to determine who was most deserving of the MVP award (David Wright in this case) in the National League. For those of you in the baseball world, unfamiliar with the concept of replacement value, it tries to measure the production of a certain player, both offensively and defensively, when compared against the strawman “replacement player”, or average player.  It comes from the sabermetric world, ...

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www.baseballprospectus.com 11/20/2007 — Whoever the electorate chooses, Joe`s given this thought, and has his answer for who should win.
Whoever the electorate chooses, Joe`s given this thought, and has his answer for who should win.
Rollins Takes NL MVP
vegaswatch.blogspot.com 11/21/2007 — I've been going over this for the last ten minutes, and I'm still convinced I'm missing something. There are 32 voters. 1+4+12+7+1+1+2= 28 . 32-28=4. Four of the voters didn't have Wright on their ballot. Four people, whose job it is to write about ...
I've been going over this for the last ten minutes, and I'm still convinced I'm missing something. There are 32 voters. 1+4+12+7+1+1+2= 28 . 32-28=4. Four of the voters didn't have Wright on their ballot. Four people, whose job it is to write about ...
Barry Bonds vs. Bill Conlin…
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com 11/23/2007 — What struck me about it was the sheer hypocrisy. How often have we read rip jobs by writers about Barry Bonds as well as other media-unfriendly players? The biggest complaint about such ballplayers is their arrogance and how they treat the media as unworthy of their time or like the end of a canine’s digestive process on their shoes.
What struck me about it was the sheer hypocrisy. How often have we read rip jobs by writers about Barry Bonds as well as other media-unfriendly players? The biggest complaint about such ballplayers is their arrogance and how they treat the media as unworthy of their time or like the end of a canine’s digestive process on their shoes.
This and that…
tonycastillocausedmyfacialtic.blogspot.com 11/23/2007 — The MVP will always be an award based on both objective and subjective criteria; it will never lose the human element. WARP1 will tell you who had the best season statistically, however the award has never been based on that. For every Dick Allen there will be a Willie Stargell and for every Albert Belle there will be a Kirby Puckett. All will have nice numbers but not all of them were ...
The MVP will always be an award based on both objective and subjective criteria; it will never lose the human element. WARP1 will tell you who had the best season statistically, however the award has never been based on that. For every Dick Allen there will be a Willie Stargell and for every Albert Belle there will be a Kirby Puckett. All will have nice numbers but not all of them were ...