Top 10 Award Snubs of the past 10 years

[#1 Romo fan]

I have compiled a list of award snubs of the past 10 years. Since it's award week, I thought that it would be nice to see you guys opinions on this.

10. 2009 NL CY Young, Tim Lincecum over Adam Wainwright.

Adam Wainwright, 19-8 2.63 212
Tim Lincecum, 15-7 2.48 261

9. 2003 AL Rookie of the Year, Angel Berroa over Hideki Matsui

Hideki Matsui .287 16 106
Angel Berroa .287 17 73

8. 2011 AL MVP, Justin Verlander over Jacoby Ellsbury

Jacoby Ellsbury .321 32 105 39 Steals
Justin Verlander 24-5 2.40 250

7. 2002 AL MVP, Miguel Tejada over Alex Rodriguez

Alex Rodriguez .300 57 142
Miguel Tejada .308 34 131

6. 2006 AL MVP, Justin Morneau over Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter .343 14 97
Justin Morneau .321 34 130

5. 2002 AL Cy Young, Barry Zito over Pedro Martinez

Pedro Martinez 20-4 2.26 239
Barry Zito 23-5 2.75 182

4. 2004 NL Cy Young, Roger Clemens over Randy Johnson

Randy Johnson 16-14 2.60 290
Roger Clemens 18-4 2.98 218

3. 2011 NL MVP, Ryan Braun over Matt Kemp

Matt Kemp .324 39 126
Ryan Braun .332 33 111

2. 2003 NL MVP, Barry Bonds over Albert Pujols

Albert Pujols .359 43 124
Barry Bonds .340 45 90

1. 2007 NL MVP, Jimmy Rollins over Matt Holliday

Matt Holliday .340 36 137
Jimmy Rollins .296 30 94

Do you agree, disagree, discuss

[SenorGato]

2. 2003 NL MVP, Barry Bonds over Albert Pujols

Albert Pujols .359 43 124
Barry Bonds .340 45 90

Nope, that was Bonds all the way. If anything, Bonds has been robbed of MVPs and earned the hell out of the MVPs he did get. You can make a pretty strong case that he should have two or three more of those things...

[Pinstripe power]

verlander should have won over ellsbury. thats not a snub

[gotcabrera10]

Good post. It still pisses me off to this day that Morneau beat Jeter for the MVP in 06. That season was Jete at his absolute finest.

People are mesmerized by the homerun I guess.

[gotcabrera10]

And holy crap look at that...

1. 2007 NL MVP, Jimmy Rollins over Matt Holliday

Matt Holliday .340 36 137
Jimmy Rollins .296 30 94

What a joke!

[#1 Romo fan]

verlander should have won over ellsbury. thats not a snub

It was hard finding 10 snubs in the past 10 years so I had to find snubs that I didn't necessarily agree with.

[Miltstar]

Very hard to debate anything using the stats you've listed. You have W/L ERA Strikeouts for pitchers and Avg. HR's RBI's for hitters.

[Max Power]

Trout not getting a Gold Glove this season is pretty absurd.

[#1 Romo fan]

Very hard to debate anything using the stats you've listed. You have W/L ERA Strikeouts for pitchers and Avg. HR's RBI's for hitters.

Your probably right but I was too lazy to write anymore stats and I figured other people could look it up as well or remember.

[Krush]

Agree with all of them except for the Verlander snub.

[ATL#22]

Heyward for ROY

[beldugo]

I don't agree on number 10 , 9 , 8 , 2. Those weren't snubs.

[flea]

Bonds was disgusting in 2003 - there is no way anyone deserved MVP over him during any of that 4 years. I'd argue Bonds probably got robbed in 2000 but Jeff Kent did have a remarkable year himself that year.

Lincecum deserved every bit of that 2009 award - better ERA+, nearly the same number of innings, etc.

It was Chase Utley who got robbed in 2007 by Jimmy Rollins, not Matt Holliday.

The rest of them I either agree wholeheartedly or feel that reasonable people can disagree but it's close.

[ciaban]

Good post. It still pisses me off to this day that Morneau beat Jeter for the MVP in 06. That season was Jete at his absolute finest.

People are mesmerized by the homerun I guess.

actually i felt that Joe Mauer deserved the MVP over both,

And holy crap look at that...
Jeter .343/.417/.483 14hr(hitters park)
Maruer .347/.429/.507(13hr pitchers park)

both played premium postions, but only one of them was good enough to actually play it.
1. 2007 NL MVP, Jimmy Rollins over Matt Holliday

Matt Holliday .340 36 137
Jimmy Rollins .296 30 94

What a joke!

in fairness you need to look at positional value, Rollins was a great defensive SS and Holliday was a crappy Left Fielder who hit poorly out side of Coors.

[ztilzer31]

It's easy to look at stats and decide who had the better season. MVP's are all about circumstance, not stats. Who was the most valuable person on the team. If you want to throw WAR up there than maybe we could have this discussion.