Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout. The AL MVP race is pretty much a two-horse race at this point. It’s the explosive rookie phenom vs. the man chasing the elusive Triple Crown. Those who decry baseball as “boring” would be hard pressed to explain the tension present in this sudden rivalry. Almost overnight, it seems every sports media outlet in existence has their cameras trained on this sprint to the finish.
The Most Valuable Player award is an honor held by less than 1% of all MLB players, past and present. To receive the award is to have been recognized as the the absolute cream of the baseball crop. In being named the MVP, you are raised as the pinnacle of the game, a sort of concept model for the dream player everyone wishes they had on their team that season.
Basically, it’s kind of a big deal.
To break such an honor down to raw statistics seems a bit coarse, and yet that is what must be done to take an objective look at these two players. Cabrera, fighting for the ...
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September 29, 2012
