Quote Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Sano or whoever can want the award to be something other than what it is, but what it is is clear and I believe right.
There's nothing "clear" about someone's opinion on who's considered the most "valuable". If Trout wasn't batting ahead of Pujols, Pujols would have terrible numbers. If Altuve wasn't hitting out of his mind, Correa would get harder pitches to hit. So on an so forth. David Ortiz is valuable, he simply isn't the "most" valuable this year.

Mookie Betts, on the same successful team Ortiz plays for, has 4 less HRs and 7 less RBIs, but has 3.6 more offensive WAR and leads the AL in defesive WAR where Ortiz has -1.0.

But i guess lets just give it to Ortiz because he's retiring and old.