BBTF's Dialed In Discussion :: The 2007 National League MVP

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I read lots of articles about who should be the MVP. Albert Pujols, David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Ryan Howard, Matt Holliday – and Jimmy Rollins won. What I don’t see is an itemized offense plus defense (OPD) analysis to say “this guy should have won the MVP”. Naturally, if the OPD is terrifically close between some players, we’ll tweak it toward something like better Win Probability Added ... [link]

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2007 NL MVP
Published 3/21/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
... I don’t particularly care about who won, just the process in trying to determine it.  So, looking at Chris’ article on BTF and some of the responses, this is what I think: ...

Corey Hart is the NL Rightfield MVP for 2007?
Published 3/22/2008 by rluzinski at Another Baseball Blog
That's what they tell me: BBTF: The 2007 National League MVP The bar might not have been set high but it's still not bad for an 11th rounder.

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