My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
I guess making the playoffs is a difference maker in MVP voting...
I know that, but it's a strange way to vote for a player.
Kemp became the seventh player in Major League history to finish the season ranked in the top three in homers, batting average, RBIs and stolen bases in their respective league, joining Hall of Famers Ty Cobb (1907, 1909-11), Honus Wagner ('08), George Sisler ('20), Chuck Klein ('32), Willie Mays ('55) and Hank Aaron ('63).
Should have been Kemp.
“I don’t care,” Votto said of passing his friend and former teammate. “He’s in the past. Bye-bye, Jay.”
The NL Central owns this award.
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...the 2-2 to Woodsen and here it comes...and it is swung on and missed! And Tom Browning has pitched a perfect game! Twenty-seven outs in a row, and he is being mobbed by his teammates, just to the thirdbase side of the mound.
Anyone notice that Votto got 6th? Not too shabby as a follow up to 2010, eh?
“Every level he goes to, he is going to compete. They will know who he is at every level he goes to.” -- ED on EDLC
Ironically, of the three other players you listed, whose seasons came after the present MVP award was established in 1931, only Chuck Klein won the MVP, and in 1932 Mel Ott arguably had the better season. In 1955 Roy Campanella ultimately was given the award in a confused vote where one writer named Campanella twice on his ballot; had the ballot been thrown out (as it should have been), then Duke Snider would have been the 1955 NL MVP. In 1963, Sandy Koufax was (properly in my view) named the NL MVP.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Braun should have won. Good job. American League, not so much.
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Kemp should have won.
Plaschke wrote a good article about that:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...ge=1&track=rss
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This is kinda unrelated but according to baseball reference Braun had a .994 ops and a 166 ops+ while Kemp had a .986 ops and 171 ops+. I'm just wondering how that works.
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