Two Guys SportsSpotlight Post: MLB Awards Time – Can an MVP play for a loser?
September 21st 2008 07:15
I wrote on BaseballSlate.com . . .
MLB Awards Time – Can an MVP play for a loser?
It is often said by sportscasters and many fans alike that the league’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) should not come from a losing team, or a team that doesn’t win enough to make the playoffs.
It is also said, and history has proven this one, that a pitcher – starter or reliever – shouldn’t win the MVP either. The MVP has been awarded for 77 years, one in each league for a total of 154 awards. Out of all of those MVP awards just nine National League, and eleven American League pitchers have been named MVP of their league. Just three of hose AL awards were to relief pitchers, with none for relievers in the NL.
This presents a bit of a conundrum this year. . .
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MLB Awards Time – Can an MVP play for a loser?
It is often said by sportscasters and many fans alike that the league’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) should not come from a losing team, or a team that doesn’t win enough to make the playoffs.
It is also said, and history has proven this one, that a pitcher – starter or reliever – shouldn’t win the MVP either. The MVP has been awarded for 77 years, one in each league for a total of 154 awards. Out of all of those MVP awards just nine National League, and eleven American League pitchers have been named MVP of their league. Just three of hose AL awards were to relief pitchers, with none for relievers in the NL.
This presents a bit of a conundrum this year. . .
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Comment by Mr Nice Guy
Pop Culturist
Pop Rock Factory
Sometimes there are genuinely sides that are champion teams - and then there are sides which ride on the back of a champion.
Cheers champion
Comment by Jarrah
Back to the Eighties
A whole crap team shouldnt be carried on the shoulders of one great player, its MVP not MVT (team) What a joke.