In 1978 Ron Guidry should have won the MVP and didn't. Albert Belle in 1995 had no real competition and wasn't voted MVP by the writers. Who do YOU think was shafted in any given year?
2007-08-12 06:45:18 · 8 answers · asked by Sarrafzedehkhoee 7 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Ah ah ah, Chipmaker. If you're going to be a little girl and block people, you shouldn't answer questions that they post. Tsk tsk tsk. The book you should write about baseball is "How little kids see the world of baseball." I'm going to have to block you. Sorry, dude.
2007-08-12 07:03:01 · update #1
Thomas M -- Yeah, I didn't realize that about the 2 Red Sox. Rice was robbed at LEAST once, not even to mention the Hall of Fame.
2007-08-12 10:15:48 · update #2
Chipmaker -- BUY A DICTIONARY before you write your book!! Reasoning? Reasoning?
Oh, and I never block people. Sissies block people.
2007-08-12 10:17:06 · update #3
Hmm. You picked two times a Red Sox player won it to complain about (although I do agree in both cases and I am a Red Sox fan).
There have been a bunch of cases in recent history.
Pedro Martinez should have won it in 1999.
Bonds and Mantle were both robbed many times, because it would have been boring to vote for them every single year. But they both should have won it almost every year of their respective primes.
ARod in 1996 and 2002.
Any number of guys would have been better than Juan Gonzalez in 1998 - it's a close call between Nomar and Belle, but they aren't the only ones who had better year than Gonzalez.
Giambi or ARod over Ichiro in 2000.
Mauer should have beaten Morneau last year.
Basically, they overrate RBIs, and don't like to vote for the same guy every year.
And this is just recent memory.
2007-08-12 06:58:34 · answer #1 · answered by Thomas M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Skipping past the quibbling decisions (e.g., Gibson over Strawberry, 1988 NL), there have been some indefensibly bad choices -- not that the winner had a poor season, they were quite good, but someone else had a distinctly better one.
Mark McGwire, 1998 NL.
Alex Rodriguez, 1996 AL.
Albert Belle or Edgar Martinez, 1995 AL (I'd have voted for Edgar).
Pedro Martinez, 1999 AL.
The first three are mainly due to the idiotic "MVP must come from a playoff team" meme (although, yeah, Belle's chances ran afoul of his colorful personality), and the last is a heinous example of the bias against pitchers, as Pedro's season was utterly historic, probably the best starting pitcher's season in a century (and he got one more first-place vote than winner IRod did).
2007-08-12 06:57:50 · answer #2 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought Pujols deserved it over Bonds a few years back.
Magglio is fading and won't get cheated. The most outstanding player in the AL win it and we all know who that is.
2007-08-12 06:59:42 · answer #3 · answered by Numba 1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
David Ortiz,no doubt
2007-08-12 06:57:11 · answer #4 · answered by Tribe of benjamin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think Magglio Ordonez is going to get shafted this year, thats for sure.
2007-08-12 06:50:19 · answer #5 · answered by J-Far 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
derek jeter last year.
2nd in average
and he was shafted cus he didnt have enough homeruns
and justin morneau was benched in june last year and he still wont the mvp
2007-08-12 07:04:02 · answer #6 · answered by abhi b 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
pujols last year, howard won it and they didnt even make the playoffs, what was he valuble to
2007-08-12 07:06:05 · answer #7 · answered by Simon K 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pujols last year (playoffs!)
2007-08-12 07:06:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋