I would love to sit here and give you 10 reasons why, beyond any reasonable doubt, Albert Pujols will not win the NL MVP this year. But the bottom line is, I am hard pressed to find even 1 good reason why he won’t.
Of the best reasons I can find why he shouldn’t win this year is a question about his actual birth year. A hypothetical question as to whether or not he was actually born in 1980 is the best reason we can come up with to put a dagger in his MVP hopes.
Hasn’t the man been disrespected enough already? He was drafted in the 13th round of the ’99 draft. As far as I’m concerned all of baseball owes him an overwhelming apology for our failures at evaluating talent.
Last year Pujols hit 42 home runs with a .312 BA and 118 RBI’s. If Pujols may have a 10% increase from last year, which is a conservative estimate considering is has been statistically proven that players have a heightened performance during contract years. If this proves true we can expect 46 homeruns with a .344 batting average and 130 RBI’s with numbers like that he could be chasing the Triple Crown.
I wouldn’t say Pujols is going to win the first Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski but after being snubbed last year and missing the playoffs, ‘The Machine’ will be playing with a vengeance. There is no question Pujols will do his part to win the NL MVP. Now the only question remaining is: will the voters do theirs?
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