Nah. Baseball has always rewarded best player regardless of record. A-rod won it with the Rangers. Trout won it last year with the awful Angels. It technically is easier to just give it to the best player... should probably just do that in all sports (now that the NBA has broken their previous precedence).
Baseball established that model well before. That being said, if the Astros continue this trend of winning, it will be close enough to Judge to make it a good race.
We clearly have 3 of the top 4 MVP candidates right now. If Judge gets hurt, or falls off in the 2nd half, it is extremely likely the MVP is an Astro.
Antics by Stroman on the mound ( punching his chest, yelling etc) and Donaldson staring and admiring his HR longer then she should have. Stroman was ****ing annoying though... truly would have ticked you off.
I like experimenting with Martes in the pen. Worth seeing how he would handle it if we kept him on the roster for the playoffs.
This works well for baseball but would be a terrible idea for the NBA where an individual superstar has far more impact on the success of a season. The NBA/ESPN had a narrative they wanted to see through this year but it would be foolish to start discounting record in that sport.
So far it's just an outlier in the NBA. Hopefully it stays that way unless ESPN chooses a similar type of candidate next year.
Why not? OKC wasn't terrible but record meant absolutely nothing to voters this season. Though on the other hand Westbrook was not even statistically the clear winner.
Just said to my friend, "wonder how many times they've scored ten or more runs this yr"? Sure enough they bring it up as people on twitter were asking as well. ELEVEN times!!
