Find them. And make sure they are never allowed to vote on anything again.
No beauty pageants.
No pie contests.
No American Idol/Dancing With the Stars/America's Got Talent/Last Comic Standing/Star Search.
If their children have disputes, make sure their spouses settle them.
Braun had a terrific season. I just don't think it was better than Kemp's.
(Sorry. That's the extent of my rant. I'm just too disappointed -- and admittedly shocked -- right now).
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cant wait to get home and pour a tequila over this one.
I also wonder in the voter's mind if they thought that it would be bad to have Kershaw win CY and Kemp win MVP. It shouldn't matter, but I wonder if it did. Wonder if any non-playoff team has ever had the CY and MVP?
If that's the case, why did Barry Bonds win the award in 2004 when his Giants' DIDN'T make the playoffs and Adrian Beltre didn't win the award when his Dodgers DID make the playoffs. If you compare the statistics that year, there wasn't a huge difference between the two.
Oh, right. What were we talking about? Matt Kemp? Never heard of him.
PS - Cam - 2004 Beltre and Bonds numbers were essentially the same?
One of them had a .609 OBP, with an .812 SLG and was on base 376 times. The other had a .388 OBP and a .629 SLG while reaching base 253 times. Extremely close? Only when you compare the first guy's slugging to the 2nd guy's OBP.
PS - the 376 times on base are 3 more than his 373 at bats for the year. I'm confident this is the only time that's ever happened in baseball history - and I bet no other season is even close.
Talk about cracked: In 1941 Ted Williams hit .406 and lost the MVP race to Joe DiMaggio. So the next year Williams upped the ante and won the triple crown and lost to another Yankee, Joe Gordon.
I know that doesn't fix this situation. But it wasn't the first time we've seen injustice with the MVP voting and unfortunately it won't be the last.
There's no way though that you can convince me that because opposing managers chose to intentionally walk Barry 120 times in 2004 that he was the deserving MVP. The free passes gave Barry a huge bump in OBP, SLG and OPS that skewed his stats in those three categories compared to Adrian Beltre (not to mention the ability to fairly compare his season with other great season's of the past).
That said, since all of those intentional walks didn't help the Giants make the playoffs in 2004 and all the other non-walk related statistics were relatively close. The MVP should have gone to the player on the playoff team (Beltre) if voters used the same rational every year when picking the MVP.