Dustin Pedroia is MVP? You gotta be kidding me!

Nothing against Dustin Pedroia, I think he is an excellent ball player.  I like his hard nosed approach to the game.  Is he an MVP?  No way.  This isn't my anti-Red Sox bias coming out here but rather a defense of Derek Jeter and other small, gritty, non-homer guys who have been passed over in years past.  Here are two stat lines.  I want you to tell me which one you think deserves the MVP vote:

158 games, 134 runs, 219 hits, 37 doubles, 9 triples, 24 homers, 102 RBI, 19 SB's, .438 OBP, .349 AVG

157 games, 118 runs, 213 hits, 54 doubles, 2 triples, 17 homers 83 RBI, 20 SB's, .376 OBP, .326 AVG

I'll let you guess which one is Derek Jeter's stats in 1998 and which is Pedroia's 2008.  Think that is unfair?  OK.  Here is another stat line to be compared with Pedroia's 2008 numbers:

154 games, 118 runs, 214 hits, 39 doubles, 3 triples, 14 homers, 97 RBI, 34 SB's, .343 AVG.  The man who owns those numbers lost the MVP race to Justin Morneau in 2006.  His name?  Derek Jeter.  Dustin Pedroia won the MVP beating out the very man who beat Derek Jeter in 2006.  Let us compare Mr. Morneau's numbers from 2006 and 2008 and see how big of a difference there was:

2006:  157 games, 97 runs, 190 hits, 37 doubles, 1 triple, 34 homers, 130 RBI, .375 OBP, 3 SB's, .321 AVG.

2008:  163 games, 97 runs, 187 hits, 47 doubles, 4 triples, 23 homers, 129 RBI, 0 SB's, .300 AVG.  

You mean to tell me that all of a sudden Justin Morneau's numbers are not good enough for MVP despite putting up eerily similar numbers?  Oh, and by the way, Morneau accounted for a higher percentage of his teams total offense in 2008 than in 2006 which means he was even more valuable to his team in 2008 than in 2006 when he actually won the award.  Don't get me wrong, Morneau deserves his MVP award.  However, Dustin Pedroia should never have beaten Morneau while posting numbers that are generally considered worse than Derek Jeter's in 2006 when Jeter lost to Morneau.  In my opinion, the Baseball Writers have let the baseball world down.  Pedroia should not have been MVP if you are giving him the award for all the same reasons you denied Derek Jeter.  Talk about hypocrisy!  

If the Red Sox didn't have Pedroi this season would they have still made the playoffs?  Probably.  If the Twins didn't have Morneau would they have taken the White Sox to a one game playoff?  Not even close.  

there is some shady stuff going on with the BBWAA.  The NL MVP race was just as skewed.  Ryan Howard almost single handedly got the Phillies into the playoffs.  Yet, he comes in second place.  Hanley Ramirez, one of the games best and most exciting players who actually gave the Marlins fans reason to hope finished 11th.  Yet Manny Ramirez and C.C. Sabathia, both of whom played less than a year in the Senior Circuit finish in 2nd and 6th respectively.  I am not taking anything away from any player here, they are all great and what Manny did for the Dodgers was amazing and beyond words.  However, the BBWAA overlook so many key facts and stats that it makes these postseason awards a joke.  No wonder the Hall of Fame is quickly becoming a joke as well.  Maybe one day, Major League Baseball will wake up.  Maybe one day the BBWAA will grow up.  In the meantime I am going to go look at a bridge in Brooklyn I heard was for sale.