Adrian Gonzalez AL MVP
Adrian Gonzalez has spent the last 5 seasons at Petco Park in San Diego. Hitting homeruns at Petco is like bowling a 300 game, it’s not impossible but it’s worth your name on a plaque. Petco Park is the most difficult homerun park in all of baseball. If that didn’t hurt his numbers enough, his supporting cast didn’t help much either. With Eckstein, Headley and Hairston as his supporting cast Pitchers didn’t even have to pitch to him.
Now Gonzalez has moved to Fenway Park where pitchers will be pressured to pitch to him. He will have Ortiz, Crawford and Perdroia next to him in the lineup. Plus Fenway Park is one of the best hitter’s parks in the game, it is built for guys like Gonzalez to thrive. It is such a hitters field Victor Martinez was able to post .335/.389/.562 rates at Fenway last year and just .271/.315/.426 on the road. Fenway is a hitters dream.
What does this mean for Gonzalez? Better pitches and closer fences means his 31 homeruns, .298 avg. and 101 RBI’s will now be more like 42 Homeruns, .330 avg. and 130 RBI’s. Plus the Red Sox have made all the right moves to win the World Series this year. The equation looks something like this; a (great supporting cast) plus a (homerun field) plus (an early favorite to win the World Series) equals an easy pick for AL MVP.
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