Robin Buckson/Detroit News
Miguel Cabrera is the right choice. The rest is just sound and fury.
The award is not Player of the Year. It is not Most Awesome Overall Skills. And it most certainly is not a Math Bowl.
It is the Most Valuable Player award, and the term Valuable is where the water gets muddy and the math gets murky.
Mike Trout is a sensational player, the Second Coming of Mickey Mantle. If he is graced with good health and good fortune, he is going to win multiple MVP awards by the time he's finished.
But his time is not now. Not for this year's MVP award.
In handing Miguel Cabrera the American League MVP award, the voters weren’t making a statement that Cabrera’s four additional points of batting average, his 14 homers or even his 56 RBI made him a better player... more »
On Thursday, the American League will announce the recipient of its Most Valuable Player award. The winner is likely to be Miguel Cabrera, the Detroit Tigers star who won the league’s triple crown by leading in batting... more »
The instructions at the top of the National League Most Valuable Player ballot begin with the words: "There is no clear-cut definition for what Most Valuable means." In 2012, Buster Posey did his best to change that. Posey ... more »
Thursday afternoon, Buster Posey was named the Most Valuable Player in the National League. This came as a stunning surprise to almost nobody. Probably not even to Posey. He claimed to be grasping for his thoughts upon ... more »
Only two previous catchers have led the National League in batting average in a season and one of them, Cincinnati’s Ernie Lombardi, was named the league’s Most Valuable Player in 1938 after hitting .342. Lombardi ... more »
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