I think it would be great for Judge to have a better Sophomore year, history speaks hard against that. I'd love for Altuve to be MVP again, I don't think he'll ever be a team MVP again let alone a league one (speaks to how good the Astros are). The MVP barring injury or a complete rebuild is...
People do because on this board most people were not born.
For those of us that lived it, there were no outstanding candidates from playoff type teams.
I agree with those first two quotes, the last is dumb. No one remembers Votto. No one watched the Reds.
Discounting how a team performs is dumb unless there are no clear performers for guys that helped a team.
Sorry, you folks picking best player for the award is wrong. As it is for he...
They did matter. Management bailed as you stated and the players left under Molitor played their hearts out and got into the playoffs. That fits the definition of a manager of the year perfectly.
New to baseball are ya? Sorry, I take that back.
No one dismisses Player in these awards, but to not understand what valuable means and most valuable is just not getting it.
I looked a bit deeper and Stanton fell off in Sept/Oct and had three months of sub 900 ops. Goldy one, but man was...