Top 10 Award Snubs of the past 10 years

[rcs15]

Zito (bless his precious soul) shouldn't have won the Cy Young award over Pedro Martinez in 2002. No one mentioned that one yet really?

That one is in the OP. One of the few that actually qualify as a snub on his list

[Jeffy25]

....Pedro had about double the WAR of Zito even though he pitched 30 less innings in 2002.

Take a look at rWAR

[flea]

Zito deserved it over Pedro. It may have been close but it certainly wasn't a robbery.

[RTL]

Morneau over Santana in '06 was not a snub, that or I have a different definition of the word snub.

[spliff(TONE)]

That one is in the OP. One of the few that actually qualify as a snub on his list

Ha. My bad. Reading comprehension fail.

[Jeffy25]

Morneau over Santana in '06 was not a snub, that or I have a different definition of the word snub.

Santana was better than his peers, then Morneau was better than his peers

Santana - 7.3 rWAR, 7.3 fWAR
Morneau - 4.0 rWAR, 4.0 fWAR


Morneau was a .390 wOBA, 138 wRC+ first basemen
Santana was an elite pitcher. Santana was the best player in the AL in 06


Hell Sizemore hit almost as well as Morneau, and was a good defensive centerfielder, over an average to weak fielding first basemen.

Morneau didn't deserve the award

[koldjerky]

Utley not winning any GG at 2B.

[Jeffy25]

It's actually really laughable how Morneau won that award, 12th in the AL offensively, and he played first base, and not that well.

[popo85]

Nice stuff, i'll add one although it was 17 yrs back. Though it wasn't a huge snub i thought Belle deserved it that year.

95'-
Vaughn .300avg 39hr 126rbi .575 slug
Belle .326avg 50hr 52 doubles 126 rbi .690 slug 6.6 WAR

[RTL]

Santana was better than his peers, then Morneau was better than his peers

Santana - 7.3 rWAR, 7.3 fWAR
Morneau - 4.0 rWAR, 4.0 fWAR


Morneau was a .390 wOBA, 138 wRC+ first basemen
Santana was an elite pitcher. Santana was the best player in the AL in 06


Hell Sizemore hit almost as well as Morneau, and was a good defensive centerfielder, over an average to weak fielding first basemen.

Morneau didn't deserve the award

Morneau was one of the top players in all of baseball from June on that year and when he took off, the Twins took off. Plus all the Twins were basically campaigning for Morneau that season.

[Skippy15]

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


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.

In 2007 Matt Holliday hit .371 at home and .301 on the road.

.435 OBP at home
.371 OBP on road

25 home runs at home
11 on the road

28 doubles at home
22 on road

-.07 defensive war.

Argument that his OBP dropped majorly on road invalid. He's still posting a great one at .371

Wish I could be that crappy a left fielder and hitter away from home

[Jeffy25]

Morneau was one of the top players in all of baseball from June on that year and when he took off, the Twins took off. Plus all the Twins were basically campaigning for Morneau that season.

So because the Twins players felt he deserved it (and who knows if they even thought Santana was a possibility) that means he did?

Santana was the best player in the AL that year, Morneau, was maybe the 15th of 20th.

Hell Frank Thomas, Travis Hafner, and Jim Thome all deserved it over him and they all played the same position.

[Jeffy25]

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.

No he didn't and wasn't

[RTL]

So because the Twins players felt he deserved it (and who knows if they even thought Santana was a possibility) that means he did?

Santana was the best player in the AL that year, Morneau, was maybe the 15th of 20th.

Hell Frank Thomas, Travis Hafner, and Jim Thome all deserved it over him and they all played the same position.

Nooooo, I stated why he was deserving of the award. The rest was an explanation of why he did win the award.

And no, Thomas, Hafner and Thome were all DHs with Hafner appearing in 40 less games than Morneau.

[ATL#22]

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