2005 NL MVP.

Thanks to all my friends who participated in my polls, even the person who voted for Scott Rolen.


I'm all for fielding. I think fielding is good. Speed is also a good thing, I suppose.

Having said that, I'd like to point out that Jose Reyes had an on-base percentage of .300. He's Tony Womack at shortstop. In the entire universe of major league ballplayers, he's one of the handful of players you'd most want up with the game on the line ... if you're on the opposing team.

Somehow, he received a fourth-place vote in my poll and a tenth-place vote in the writers' poll.

Now, I realize he scored 99 runs and that's pretty good. It's among the top ten in the league, that's true.

However, that statistic does not prove that Jose Reyes adds a lot of value to a baseball team. It proves that just about anybody can score 99 runs if they bat leadoff on a professional baseball team.


I feel compelled to point out that I have no recollection of the existence of Scott Eyre, who received one tenth-place vote. Then, when I looked up Scott Eyre's stats, I found out that he was 2-2 with 0 saves.


Other than the top three, the NL MVP results were all over the map:

Them		Us
Albert Pujols	378	Albert Pujols	39
Andruw Jones	351	Andruw Jones	30
Derrek Lee	263	Derrek Lee	27
Morgan Ensberg	150	Carlos Lee	4
Miguel Cabrera	146	Scott Rolen	3
Carlos Delgado	84	Jimmy Rollins	3
Pat Burrell	65	Bobby Abreu	2
Chris Carpenter	52	Jason Bay	2
Brian Giles	48	Miguel Cabrera	2
Jimmy Rollins	45	Roger Clemens	2
Dontrelle Willis	42	Ken Griffey Jr.	2
Scott Podsednik	15	Carlos Delgado	1
Jason Bay	41	Morgan Ensberg	1
Chase Utley	22	Jose Reyes	1
Lance Berkman	21
Bobby Abreu	21
Chad Cordero	21
Trevor Hoffman	19
Carlos Lee	19
Jeff Kent	18
David Wright	18
David Eckstein	15
Roger Clemens	8
Roy Oswalt	6
Ken Griffey Jr.	5
Andy Pettitte	5
Jim Edmonds	3
Cliff Floyd	3
Marcus Giles	3
Adam Dunn	3
Scott Eyre	1
Brad Lidge	1
Jose Reyes	1