A.L. MVP 2013

[Dick Whitman]

Cabrera again?

 

[Songbird]

Probably. That he nearly repeated the Triple Crown is impressive.

 

[Starman]

Yeah, but he DIDN'T win the TC, he fell off dramatically the final month of the season, and the Tigers, who were supposed to bulldoze the division by 20 games, had to straggle to the finish line to win it by a single game.

 

[SoCalDude]

1. Cabrera
2. Davis
3. Trout
No big debate needed this year.

 

[93Devil]

Yeah, but he DIDN'T win the TC, he fell off dramatically the final month of the season, and the Tigers, who were supposed to bulldoze the division by 20 games, had to straggle to the finish line to win it by a single game.

Then who?

Davis? Trout? Beltre?

 

[buckweaver]

1. Trout
2. Cabrera
3. Davis

Agreed, no big debate needed this year. Trout is again the best player in the league.

 

[Starman]

Yeah, but he DIDN'T win the TC, he fell off dramatically the final month of the season, and the Tigers, who were supposed to bulldoze the division by 20 games, had to straggle to the finish line to win it by a single game.

Then who?

Davis? Trout? Beltre?

Trout.

 

[dreunc1542]

1. Trout
2. Cabrera
3. Davis

Agreed, no big debate needed this year. Trout is again the best player in the league.

Yup.

 

[outofplace]

Yeah, but he DIDN'T win the TC, he fell off dramatically the final month of the season, and the Tigers, who were supposed to bulldoze the division by 20 games, had to straggle to the finish line to win it by a single game.

Then who?

Davis? Trout? Beltre?

Trout.

Even hobbled by injuries most of the final month of the season, Cabrera was the far superior hitter again and he did it on a playoff team. Cabrera should win it again.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Xan goes with Jim Johnson, the O's would have lost 51 more games without him.

 

[nmmetsfan]

Yeah, but he DIDN'T win the TC, he fell off dramatically the final month of the season, and the Tigers, who were supposed to bulldoze the division by 20 games, had to straggle to the finish line to win it by a single game.

Then who?

Davis? Trout? Beltre?

Trout.

Even hobbled by injuries most of the final month of the season, Cabrera was the far superior hitter again and he did it on a playoff team. Cabrera should win it again.

Except Trout was the better player. Just as he was last year.

 

[outofplace]

Also, Starman brought up the Tigers winning the division by a narrow margin as if it was a negative for Cabrera. If anything, that works in his favor. They needed every bit of his production to win the AL Central.

Remember, they had some key hitters underachieve, including Prince Fielder. Peralta got suspended for 50 games. Victor Martinez did very little the first half of the season as he returned from a blown out knee. If the Tigers disappointed at all, it certainly wasn't because of Cabrera. He was the main reason they got through it all and won the AL Central anyway.

 

[outofplace]

Yeah, but he DIDN'T win the TC, he fell off dramatically the final month of the season, and the Tigers, who were supposed to bulldoze the division by 20 games, had to straggle to the finish line to win it by a single game.

Then who?

Davis? Trout? Beltre?

Trout.

Even hobbled by injuries most of the final month of the season, Cabrera was the far superior hitter again and he did it on a playoff team. Cabrera should win it again.

Except Trout was the better player. Just as he was last year.

If you accept the premise that his defense makes up for being an inferior hitter on a non-playoff team, which I don't. Neither did the voters last year and I'm guessing they won't agree with you this time, either.

 

[nmmetsfan]

Voters also elected George W. Bush twice. Just sayin'.

 

[amraeder]

Yeah, but he DIDN'T win the TC, he fell off dramatically the final month of the season, and the Tigers, who were supposed to bulldoze the division by 20 games, had to straggle to the finish line to win it by a single game.

Then who?

Davis? Trout? Beltre?

Trout.

Even hobbled by injuries most of the final month of the season, Cabrera was the far superior hitter again and he did it on a playoff team. Cabrera should win it again.

Except Trout was the better player. Just as he was last year.

If you accept the premise that his defense makes up for being an inferior hitter on a non-playoff team, which I don't. Neither did the voters last year and I'm guessing they won't agree with you this time, either.

He's also a significantly better base runner.

 

[nmmetsfan]

He's also in the same ballpark as a hitter. Far superior isn't really accurate.

 

[JC]

A vote for Cabrera is fine. The reasoning that he is on a playoff team is a ridiculous justification of ones vote.

 

[cranberry]

Trout is the better all-around player. No question.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

People can disagree with it, but the fact is that the voters for this award have always used "played for a winning team, and preferably a team that won a pennant/division/made playoffs" as one of their criteria for determining the meaning of that purposefully vague word "valuable." It isn't necessarily a deciding factor, but it is always in play.

 

[Songbird]

Xan goes with Jim Johnson, the O's would have lost 51 more games without him.

I blame the 7th-inning ****wads.