NO! You said the Pujols team won the World Series so that should be taken into account in the MVP voting.
Ummm, no. What I said was Howard wasn't more valuable to his team than Pujols in the grand scheme of things. The way I see it is he led the league in homers and he's on an East Coast team so he got more votes. Also, when the voting took place there were a lot of people who thought the Cardinals weren't going to do anything so I'm sure that didn't help Albert's cause. So, in actuality, you are rewarding a guy on a losing team. Much like Arizona's pitcher winning the Cy Young award. In a perfect world they would vote after the playoffs to factor in who actually contributed the most for his team's cause.
How are the Phillies a losing team?
They won 2 more games then the Cardinals did, but didn't make the playoffs because thay were in the Met's division. If the Phillies were in the Central Division, then the Cardinals would have been playing golf the first week of October.
And even still, they were in contention for the wild card right up through the last weekend of the season. While the Cardinals were trying not to become one of the biggest chokers in history, and piss away the division to the Astros. I could maybe see your point if Philadelphia was out of the race by Sept. , but they were in it till the end.
Plus, like already pointed out in this thread, Albert missed time, and the Phillies had given up on the year, and still made a run.
I think the voters got it right!
