Carlos Gonzalez, How many MVPs?
by DodgersBacktoBrooklyn2011 on Oct 1, 2010 3:35 PM EDT
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Man did this trade work out for me (I thank the many posters that helped me to pull the trigger,,, while many others thought it was a terrible trade, even taunting me... such is the world of opinions):
http://www.minorleagueball.com/2010/2/3/1290916/which-deal-carlos-gonzalez-or
I do believe he has a couple MVPs in his future as he develops into a RF, perenially finishing in the Top 3
(probably #2 to Votto this year)...
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Gonna be tough for the haters to not discount the stats based on the home and away splits.
The wait for 10/7 begins. This man is focused. Are you?
Yep, zero.
He won’t run a .384 BABIP every year, and with his walk-rate he’s likely to settle in as a very good but not MVP-level player.
he's a great player
but this always bugs me when there seems to be 10 players in the league at any time that people say have multiple mvp’s in their future, there are only 10 mvp’s a decade! and when a player like Pujols(an all-time great) gobbles up 5 in a decade that leaves 5 mvps for other top 10 players to fight for in a decade in the a.l or n.l. A top 5 player for a decade could easily not win any in a great career.
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If he doesn't win it this year, he should probably not get his hopes up.
He won’t be hitting for a .386 BABIP every year.
Of the last 20 NL MVP’s, only 3 were outfielders. Bonds, Sosa, Larry Walker. So CarGo better learn how to slug over .700 or start “hitting the gym”
I sort of agree with this only if his team won the division, they may be more likely to vote for him. Not that Votto doesn’t deserve it but I think that will be a big advantage over Gonzalez and Pujols. If he could duplicate the season he just had but help his team win his division, I think the voters would be more inclined to give him a shot.
That is horrible reasoning but that is the way it goes with baseball awards unfortunately.
If John's Crystal Ball is accurate
Assuming all things stay as is (ie. no injuries), I’d say once Pujols and Votto peak, he’s gonna have to deal with Jason Heyward.
Ryan Zimmerman, MVP stealth candidate for 2013
Man should finally have some talent around him and he will be in a contract year if things hold to form.
The wait for 10/7 begins. This man is focused. Are you?
Zimmerman would be candidate year-in, year-out at this point if his team didn't suck
That combination of offense and defense makes him one of my favorite players in the game.
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by Satchel Price on Oct 1, 2010 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
He's a candidate to those who know baseball well.
Unfortunately those kinds of people aren’t the ones voting.
by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 1, 2010 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions
He doesnt walk enough to be an MVP
I love him. He could win it. Im just not going to bet on him hitting .340 again with his K/BB ratio.
it did improve as the year went on
1H 325 AB…… 16 BB 76 K
2H 258 AB…… 24 BB 58 K
OBP, not BBs
So long as he keeps his OBP up (whether by high BA or adding walks), it doesn’t matter in the near term how he does it. Developing plate discipline serves a player better as they age, when they can no longer sustain a .330-.340 BA (or when BABIP drops precipitously). Ichiro is a great example of this, his OBP would be well above .400 each year if he drew 70-80 BB per year. When he gets 220-230 hits in a year, it doesn’t matter – when he ‘merely’ gets 200, it does.
Not exactly
I would rather have a guy with a 70/100 BB/K ratio than a 20/100 guy, even if they both end up with the same OBP. The 70/100 guy is going to make pitchers work a lot harder and wear them down for the rest of the team compared to the 20/100 guy. For instance, even in a tremendous season this year, CarGo saw roughly 3.5 pitches per plate appearance. Joey Votto saw 3.9 and Albert Pujols saw 4.0. Splitting hairs, right? Over the course of 4 plate appearances, that breaks down to 14 pitches for CarGo per game, 15.6 for Votto and 16 for Pujols. Not a significant difference still. However, take that over a simple week of 6 games, and you start to see separation with 84 pitches for CarGo, 93.6 for Votto, and 96 for Pujols. Over the course of 150 games, the difference is huge: 2100 pitches for CarGo, 2340 for Votto, 2400 for Pujols. Those are typically the most intense pitches of a game for a pitcher as they usually key up for the big guy in the lineup, so 250-300 extra high-stress pitches per season will lead to a lot quicker breakdown in stuff by the opposing pitcher and more mistakes made with the best guy in the lineup at the plate. That is a huge issue, even if the OBP numbers have miniscule differences among them.
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