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Season awards are great, and like All-Star Game selections, provide opportunity to complain about worthiness and unworthiness on a yearly basis. We all know the BWAA are going to screw something up, it’s almost a requirement, but there is some method to the madness; so in making these selections...
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Baseball Mastermind: M-V-P! M-V-P! M-V-P!
BBTF's Baseball Primer NewsblogBaseball Mastermind: M-V-P! M-V-P! M-V-P! Season awards are great, and like All-Star Game selections, provide opportunity to complain about worthiness and unworthiness on a yearly basis. We all know the BWAA are going to screw something up, it’s almost a requirement, but there is some method to the madness; so in making these selections, I’m not going to be strictly looking at–I don’t know–who the most valuable player is. No, there are more important things to consider. To wit:

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