This year at the end of baseball season a discussion popped up for the umpteenth time concerning the appropriateness of a pitcher winning the Most Valuable Player Award. Most position players would argue a pitcher should not win because pitchers already have their own award in the Cy Young and are not deserving anyway because they only pitching one fifth of a teams’ total innings at most.
So maybe my solution is overly simplistic or I just probably missed something.
Why not have:
the Cy Young go to the best pitcher,
the Player of the Year go to the best player, (the word player implying not a pitcher)
and the MVP go to the person who was the most valuable to a competitive teams’ success, whether it be pitcher or hitter.
That’s it.
Piece of cake.
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Cy Young – Player of the Year – MVP problem solved.
This year at the end of baseball season a discussion popped up for the umpteenth time concerning the appropriateness of a pitcher winning the Most Valuable Player Award. Most position players would argue a pitcher should not win because pitchers already have their own award in the Cy Young and are not deserving anyway because they only pitching one fifth of a teams’ total innings at most.
So maybe my solution is overly simplistic or I just probably missed something.
Why not have:
the Cy Young go to the best pitcher,
the Player of the Year go to the best player, (the word player implying not a pitcher)
and the MVP go to the person who was the most valuable to a competitive teams’ success, whether it be pitcher or hitter.
That’s it.
Piece of cake.