MVP

Congratulation to the Phillies on winning the World Series. It was a very ugly victory that will probably be tainted by horrible officiating, Bud Selig's idiocy, and the outright retardedness of MLB's television deal with Fox. Kudos to Brad Lidge, though, on his perfect season.

Anyhow, what this post is going to deal with is the Most Valuable Player award. To determine the winner, I used a formula that allotted a certain amount of points for home runs, RBIs, batting average, on-base plus slugging percentage, walks, strikeouts, doubles, triples, stolen bases, intentional walks, position played, and games played. There are other categories, but I completely forget as I lost my program after printing out the results. I disregarded pitchers because I did not feel there were any pitchers that deserved to win the award, so I really did not care where they would place. Plus that would make the formula a lot harder to develop. Sue me, C.C.

In the National League, it was kind of a waste of time even computing the results. Anyone with half a brain knows who should win the award this year. According to my formula, Albert Pujols amassed almost four hundred more points than the second place finisher, David Wright. While he did not overwhelm with his home run and RBI totals, his overall production made this one of the best seasons of his career. He set career highs in walks, batting average, on-base percentage, OPS+, and intentional walks. In general, he was a monster this year and deserves the MVP.

1 Albert Pujols, STL
2 David Wright, NYM
3 Carlos Beltran, NYM
4 Lance Berkman, HOU
5 Chase Utley, PHI
6 Hanley Ramirez, FLA
7 Jose Reyes, NYM
8 Nate McLouth, PIT
9 Ryan Howard, PHI
10 Matt Holliday, COL
11 Aramis Ramirez, CHC
12 Ryan Ludwick, STL
13 Carlos Delgado, NYM
14 Adrian Gonzalez, SDP
15 Ryan Braun, MIL

The situation in the American League is a lot more muddied. There wasn't really one clear player who stepped up and outperformed the field. Similar to the National League, the teams that won divisions won because of teamwork and not really on the heels of a dominant player. According to my formula, Grady Sizemore is the statistical MVP, but I think there is no way he even breaks into the real life top five due to playing for a small market team that was a huge disappointment this year. It is hard to call between Dustin Pedroia, Justin Morneau, Joe Mauer, and Josh Hamilton, but I will go with my gut and say that Morneau wins his second MVP.

1 Grady Sizemore, CLE
2 Josh Hamilton, TX
3 Justin Morneau, MIN
4 Dustin Pedroia, BOS
5 Alex Rodriguez, NYY
6 Aubrey Huff, BAL
7 Carlos Quentin, CWS
8 Kevin Youkilis, BOS
9 Bobby Abreu, NYY
10 Nick Markakis, BAL
11 Miguel Cabrera, DET
12 Ian Kinsler, TX
13 Jermaine Dye, CWS
14 Raul Ibanez, SEA
15 Joe Mauer, MIN