Rollins MVP? Is that so...WHAT?

Question

Lets break it down a bit.

Holliday : .340 Average.

Rollins .296 Average

Holliday : 36 HR's

Rollins : 30 HR's

Holliday : 137 RBI's in a Rockies lineup thats only basic star is Todd Helton.

Rollins : 94 RBI's in a lineup that includes Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Aaron Rowand.


Holliday : 216 Hits in 636 AB's

Rollins : 212 716 AB'S

Holliday : .405 OBP

Rollins : .344 OBP

Holliday : 50 Doubles

Rollins : 38 Doubles

Holliday : 63 BB's

Rollins : 49 BB's

Holliday : .607 SLG

Rollins : .531 SLG

Holliday : 386 TB

Rollins : 380 TB

Holliday : .990 FP

Rollins : .985

Answer 1

In my opinion, I believe that the only reason why Rollins got the MVP was because of the late surge of the Phillies to come all the way back and top the Mets at the top of their respective division. He stood up and became the leader of his club. Another role that plays into effect is defense. Rollins is a great SS. Holliday on the other hand is one of the worst LF's. His arm is close to a High School player's arm and when there's a play at the plate he never takes a good route or charges the ball to increase his chances at gettin the guy out at home. So as much as we'd love to take Holliday based on his offensive stats, we also have to take into account defense and leadership. In those 2 aspects, Rollins takes it for sure!
- Joba Chamberlain Jr.

Answer 2

When Utley and Howard were on the DL there was one player that kept that team going and that was Rollins. You are comparing a leadoff hitter who had 30 hr and 94 rbi to a 3 hole or even clean up hitter who had 36 and 137 who played at coors field. Rollins is the fourth player in mlb history to have 20 hr 20 sb 20 3b and 20 2b in a season. He set a national league record for most runs by a ss in a season with 139. He plays the most demanding position in the game, and won a gold glove mind you. So please before you go ranting on about how Holliday deserves it more then Rollins look a little deeper into the stats. I expected better from a top contributor.

Answer 3

These are two completely different players. Holliday bats cleanup, Rollins bats leadoff. Therefore, he won't have the amount of RBI's Holliday has.

Coor's field is also a factor. Have you seen the field? Any outfielder is lucky if they can make a catch. On top of that, air is so thin that the ball can easily go 400 feet on a line drive. So Holliday may have some advantages over Rollins.

Its very hard to tell, but this decision was obviously looked at closely. MLB obviously has some good reasons for this decision.

Answer 4

Wow. I can't believe that some of you are so blatantly stupid that you are claiming Holiday should have won because they went to the World Series. PLEASE LEARN THE RULES BEFORE YOU START WHINING IN THE FUTURE!!!! The MVP includes ONLY the regular season and is voted on BEFORE the playoffs even start! Please get a clue.

Now to the questioner................nice attempt to slant the stats in your favor and leave out any stat that would have favored Rollins (it's hysterical that you actually tried to compare Fielding % of a left fielder vs. that of a SS, tried to claim Rollins- a leadoff hitter- should have had more RBIs than Holliday who hit in the 3-hole, left out steals and triples and stuff like that). But the bottom line is this. Either one of them would have been a perfectly good choice. But the reason it ended up going to Rollins is he plays SS. The most difficult and important defensive poition on the field and he plays it so well he won a GOLD GLOVE there this year. Holliday plays LF, the LEAST difficult and important defensive position on the field and he's just average at it. Holiday would have been a great choice too, but that's why Rollins won and there's not a single valid argument that he shouldn't have.

Answer 5

I agree with you. I thought Holliday should have won it, but Rollins was relatively deserving. You can't really compare power numbers (SLG, HR, RBI) because of the difference in where they bat in the lineup. As a leadoff hitter, it should be expected that Rollins will have accumulated a lot fewer RBIs than a middle-of-the order hitter like Holliday. Rollins provided more than an offensive spark for his team. He was spectacular on defense, and deserved his Gold Glove. Holliday is a fine fielder, but he was in no way brilliant to the degree that Rollins was.

Answer 6

I definitely agree with you! How did the MLB pick Jimmy Rollins as NL MVP and Matt Holliday didn't?! I had Matt Holliday on my fantasy baseball team the whole season and realized that he did much better than Rollins and Matt Holliday even made it to the playoffs and still didn't win! It's crazy!

Answer 7

I think the voters totally contradicted themselves voting for Rollins as mvp but not Tulowitzski for rookie of the year. If they voted Braun for r.o.y. for his offensive numbers and not consider defense or who plays the harder position and the number of games played and all that hoopla, then Holliday should have been mvp. Now since Rollins is MVP Tulowitzski should have been r.o.y. Also, Citizens Bank Park is worse then Coors Field as far as being a hitters park. The humidor has taken out the thin air factor and Coors also has one of the deepest outfields in the league,and Citizens Bank Park is one of the shortest. I think the players even voted C.B. Park as the best hitters park in an issue of Sports Illustrated.

Answer 8

seriously, stop. with. the. stats. Holliday played in a VERY offensively designed ballpark. Rollins played in a neutral one. Rollins played a much tougher position - lets face it, left field is not as demanding as SS. Rollins carried his team through thick and thin with all of the injuries that the phils went through. The rockies are a much more solid team therefor lessening the actual value to that team of Holliday



and face it, Holliday did not stick out until September. It's unfortunate, but thats how it happened. Nice job with all of the stats. except for the fact that you left out every one rollins leads in.


SB -blows him out of the water!!!!!!!
games
at bats
triples


and how many fewer strikeouts rollins had.

Answer 9

couldn't agree more. matt got screwed. no other way about it. people kept saying that the NL voting would be close between rollins, holliday and fielder, but i never understood why. a .340 average with 36 homers and well over a 100 rbis? what else do you need to do? i guess finish lower in every offensive category, not take your team to world series and bat in a much stronger lineup than the guy who wins it.

Answer 10

The numbers do suggest Holliday should have won NL MVP. The lineup bit about howard, utley, and rowand tho, utley and howard were hurt for considerable amounts of time. Also, Rollins was carrying his team, Holliday wasn't. And the ballpark they play in allows for Holliday put up more hits.

I dont kno how many Philadelphia writers there are compared to Colorado, but I can imagine there are more, so you might wanna look into that.