A month ago, with a few weeks left in the regular season, I started looking at the MVP and Cy Young races. The Cys were pretty much wrapped up by Verlander and Kershaw by the end of the season, and I'm thoroughly uninterested in the AL MVP race; some years, maybe they just shouldn't give out the award. Even the NL MVP race, which looked interested on September 13, really comes down to whether you like Braun because his team went to the NLCS or Kemp because he had a higher WAR and the amusement factor of having the Cy and MVP winners coming from the same team that missed the playoffs is too great.
Pujols side note: as mentioned before, Pujols had some long-running streaks on the line, and sadly missed 30 2B by 1, 100 RBI by 1, and .300 by .001. Continuing both his HR + RBI streaks would have been particularly historic; A-rod's own streaks ended this year, so if Pujols had managed to go for 30HR 100RBI for three more years, these all-time records would have been his. He still has a shot at HRs.
Dunn side note: well, he managed to live the statistical nightmare that is .159 BA / 177 SO. Here's wishing him a better 2012.
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