AL - MVP

[Frayed Knot]

To no one's surprise it's ARod - although to mine it was NOT unanimous.

Magglio Ordonez gets 2 1st place votes (1 from a Detroit writer) while finishing 2nd overall
Ortiz was 3rd


That's his 3rd MVP award, the 9th guy to win more than 2.

[Centerfield]

Jetes was robbed.

[Valadius]

Actually, both 1st place votes for Magglio came from Detroit writers - one from The Detroit News and one from The Oakland Press (from Pontiac, MI).

[metirish]

Well now his deal for $275M+ looks a real bargain.

[nymr83]

Valadius wrote: Actually, both 1st place votes for Magglio came from Detroit writers - one from The Detroit News and one from The Oakland Press (from Pontiac, MI).

while i don't doubt that thats true do you have a source for the vote breakdowns for all the awards (i never see one) or is this just an assumption?

[Valadius]

From this article:

]The only two first-place votes that didn't go to Rodriguez were from Tom Gage of The Detroit News and Jim Hawkins of The Oakland Press in Pontiac, Mich.

[Frayed Knot]

My bad.
I read it quickly, saw Oakland and assumed California.

Not defendable votes IMO.






* Hey, I Gotta Believe I just became Tug!

[nymr83]

Ordonez had a higher OBP (lower SLG% though) and he hit in a lineup with less help than Arod had. Arod deserved to win the award but you can defend Ordonez's votes

[metirish]

I thought the voting was secret , probably harder to keep things secret now days though.