AL MVP Watch: Josh Hamilton
Baseball Time in Arlington —
... Evan Grant, by the way, was the only voter to leave Pedroia off his ballot entirely, though he has since admitted that the exclusion of the Red Sox second baseman was "probably a mistake [...] in retrospect."] ...
Meet the sportswriter who snubbed Pedroia
Red Sox Monster —
... , and he's a beat writer covering the Texas Rangers. I was going to get all snarky on Grant, but then he did a novel thing this afternoon. He apologized and said he was wrong. From Texas Rangers Blog : I'm sorry it's taken me so long to actually post this, but I've been trying to answer e-mails and respond to phone calls about why I left Dustin Pedroia off the AL ballot. Let me first say this to the Red Sox nation: In retrospect, it was a mistake. Here's what I've been sending out as a semi-form note to lots of emails about why I voted the way I did. Here is my full ballot: ...
Dallas News: Grant: My MVP vote
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Dallas News: Grant: My MVP vote Evan Grant & The F Bombs! I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to actually post this, but I’ve been trying to answer e-mails and respond to phone calls about why I left Dustin Pedroia off the AL ballot. Let me first say this to the Red Sox nation: In retrospect, it was a mistake. Here’s what I’ve been sending out as a semi-form note to lots of emails about why I voted the way I did. ...Did I perhaps get too “cute” at the bottom of the ballot? Yeah, probably. Was that a mistake? Yeah, probably. Was it a mistake to leave him out of the top five; in ...
Evan Grant Is A Genius And I Love Him
Bugs & Cranks —
... Grant “your yearly MVP voting moron.”
Apparently it’s super suspicious to think it’s debatable if Dustin Pedroia was the 4th most valuable player in the AL or the 11th. And maybe with the ugly Terry Pluto affair we are right to be suspicious if some writers are casting crazy votes just to get their names out there.
And yet. Evan Grant defends his vote with solid logic and some HIGH-larious bon mots.
I liked him when he said this:
I just thought that [Grady] Sizemore and [El Gato Del ...
Evan Grant weighs in with Sox Monster on his Pedroia snub
Red Sox Monster —
... this year as a plus towards him winning MVP. I agree; it is a plus. Many of those people suggested that writers should not vote on the awards, that it instead should be managers and coaches. But just last week, I was inundated with emails from fans suggesting that Michael Young winning the Gold Glove was a joke and that whoever voted on the Gold Glove should be stripped of that. Many of them suggested it was writers who voted on the Gold Glove; it is, in fact, managers and coaches. Here is the link to my blog explanation from today on my voting. I know it won't be ...
The Dutch Oven: Filling Your Kitchen With Wafting Rumors
Walkoff Walk —
... Evan Grant Defends His Omission of Dustin Pedroia: Grant, the only AL voter to leave eventual winner Pedroia off his MVP ballot entirely, apologizes and says that he was trying to be too "cute" with his 10th place selection of Carlos Pena instead of Dustin. Then he throws Dustin under the bus by saying the kid finished just 18th in OPS and that the second baseman preferred Wendy's burgers over Animal Style at In-N-Out. Quelle horreur! ...
Remember: Check your work
It's About The Money - A New York Yankees Blog —
... Evan Grant of The Dallas Morning News clearly didn't check his work and completely left AL MVP Dustin Pedroia off his ballot. To his credit, he fessed up, but it still doesn't make it OK: ...
Wednesday Wangdoodles
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... may be a selection bias -- I suspect that Kepner's average respondent is younger than the average Hall of Fame voter. But those results still strike me as both significant and encouraging. • I think my friend Jonah Keri is wrong about Cliff Lee . But you have to admit he has his own take on the thing . • Rich Lederer frisks the NL MVP balloting . • If you just can't get enough of this stuff, we've got actual MVP ballots (with "explanations") here , here (without Dustin Pedroia , but with apologies), here (and then there's ...
Evan Grant Pleads Guilty To Cuteness
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... , the Dallas Morning News’ Evan Grant didn’t consider Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedroia to be within the top ten candidates for the award. Presumably after his email inbox blew up yesterday afternoon, Grant attempted to explain his stance : ...
Have we flogged Evan Grant enough yet? OK, get off him already
Big League Stew —
... Look, I'm not condoning Grant's omission of Pedroia from the top 10 — in retrospect, neither is he — but I seriously question the intensity of the witchhunt that has transpired here. Not only did Grant place another Red Sock ( ...
