The Best Active Players Yet to Win an MVP

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In this week’s Metro column , I boldly made the following claim: [Manny] Ramirez is arguably the best active player to have never received an MVP award. He’s certainly the best active player to be so consistently snubbed; of similar players, he has the fewest top-five finishes without ever finishing in the top two. visit site to read more ] [link]

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Published 5/18/2008 by Ian at SOX & Dawgs
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