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Todd Frazier for MVP
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I agree right now, but if he dips to .330 and Braun continues and maybe gets to .315 it will be a tough call. He has more SB's, HR and RBI's and SLG%
+1Todd Frazier for MVP
I tried my man, I tried, cut and pasting is tough. You wanna try itIf you are going to subject us to this punishment, at least line up the columns so the stats are accurate.
By stats alone it seems to be a dead heat. Braun has 10 more homers which is pretty significant while McCutchen has 30 points in OBP which is pretty significant. Some of the advanced metrics that take ballpark into effect have McCutchen ahead, but Braun is more efficient on the base paths (20/26 in SB while McCutchen is a poor 15/24). Defensively you need to give the CF the edge.
If I had to bet, I'd put my money on Braun since he has been great pretty much his entire career, while this is the first time McCutchen has performed at this level and he's cooled off the last 4 weeks (.281/.375/.398 with 2 HR and 1 for 3 in SB).
Then again Kemp had better stats than Braun last year and lost because of the Brewers playoff run, so the Pirates superstar that leads them to the playoffs for the first time in decades(?) will get a lot of weight put on it.
The Brewers are actually on a 11 for 14 run, and not that far out of the wild card, st. louis did it last year, you never know and Braun is carrying them.I'll sidestep the PED debate and make my vote for McCutchen based on the one point that everyone had to trot out against my boy Matt Kemp last year. The Pirates are in the playoff hunt, the Brewers are going nowhere. Thus with both having relatively similar stats, the award goes to the guy playing for the contending team. I don't like it since that philosophy is what cost Kemp last year but you're absolutely right I'm going to trot it out this year when it will cost Braun this time around.
They are 7.5 out of the wild card, that is pretty far out.The Brewers are actually on a 11 for 14 run, and not that far out of the wild card, st. louis did it last year, you never know and Braun is carrying them.