Ryan Braun - NL MVP

All I saw so far was Fielder finished 3rd and Braun had 20 1st place votes to Kemp's 10.

 

Voting breakdown is on the front page of the BBWAA website. And I'd sure like to know who gave Justin Upton a first-place vote.

 

http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=381048

 

Interesting to see who all gets MVP votes, even if they're lower-place votes. Miguel Montero got MVP votes, for goodness sakes.

 

What a fucking joke. The NL voters ought to be ashamed of themselves. Speaking as a BBWAA life member, there may be some microchip in the membership cards that's giving off harmful radiation.

 

Just Google "Arizona Republic Diamondbacks writer". I'll bet on that person.

Ryan Braun won the MVP because he has better teammates than Matt Kemp. They were equal in everything else.

 

Verlander should have won. He was 3-0 with 0.75 ERA, 25 Ks, 3 BBs, 15 H in 24 IPs against NL.

 

I wouldn't have done it, but I can understand the Upton vote. They won the division, and who was their 2nd best player?

 

Since Kemp was the league leader in several offensive categories, he could not by definition be "equal" to Braun or any other NL player in "everything else."

 

So is the upshot here that enough voters decided that there was no way that they could vote for Los Angeles Dodgers for the Cy Young AND MVP - both because they were a .500 team and because of all the off-the-field headaches - and went with Braun to split things up? I didn't know that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association handled MVP voting along with the Golden Globes.

 

Justin Upton was. Ian Kennedy was their best player.