Congratulations to Albert Pujols for winning his second NL Most Outstanding Player award, as voted by his peers in the NL. Albert won the award in 2003 as well.
There were rumors during the All-Star game that the NL players didn't vote Albert onto the team, and that he was a manager's add to the roster. Some made some hay about Hanley Ramirez being the best player in the NL at that time, having supplanted Pujols. Guess not.
Derrick Gould posted a story on the award at the Post Dispatch site, and there's a video report on it over at Yahoo! sports.
As Derrick mentioned, there's no correlation between winning this award and winning the league MVP. Does AP deserve both? Based on his numbers, yeah. But there are a lot of other worthy candidates out there, as I've detailed here previously.
Today we start the last series of the baseball season. Game 1 of the World Series. Kazmir vs Hamels. Two good left handed pitchers. Should be good. Hope people besides the baseball niche audience (and large audiences in Philly and Tampa) tune in.
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Question for the baseball guru. Since the league expanded in the 1960s, has there been a World Series in which at least one of the original 16 franchises (incl. Minnesota and Baltimore) has not played? Or in other words, has there been a World Series of two expansion teams? I cannot remember, but I don't think so.
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