MVP vs MOP

[gtcam]

Wanted to place this on the basketball thread but some of the righteous whiners there would complain it has no business posted there but love all the crazy food and TV show, etc arguments.
Anyway - I fully agree that Mike Trout is an outstanding player - a baseball freak - and is arguable the best all around player.
I just don't see him as the most valuable player. Who was he valuable to? Himself? His Team? Would the Angels still not qualify for the playoffs without him this past season?
I know many will say that for years they give it to the best overall player but is that player always the most Valuable to his team?
I would love to see the nomenclature of the award be changed to Most Outstanding Player or give out 2 awards - the real MVP to their team and the MOP
Am I in the minority thinking this way?

 

[gtcam]

Thanks for moving it here
Should have posted here but to be honest, I forgot about this area!!!
Thanks again

 

[the Q]

I think Bregman should’ve won simply because he had a higher WAR thanks to Trout being injured for an entire month.

interesting that trout less hurt By the voters than yelich.

 

[Scoe]

What a joke that DJ wasnt even an MVP candidate, yes Trout is the best player in the game and its not his fault that the Angels suck, health should also be a factor. DJ was the one healthy Yankee all year (Gleyber too) played GG caliber D at multiple positions batted I believe over 400 with men on base, batted 330 with over 100 RBI, of course playoffs dont factor into these awards but for what its worth he batted .381 in the playoffs and was clutch with no production around him in the ALCS, just a joke Seaman from the As was a finalist over him shouldn't have been a finalist over Gleyber let alone DJ.

 

[storrsroars]

What a joke that DJ wasnt even an MVP candidate, yes Trout is the best player in the game and its not his fault that the Angels suck, health should also be a factor. DJ was the one healthy Yankee all year (Gleyber too) played GG caliber D at multiple positions batted I believe over 400 with men on base, batted 330 with over 100 RBI, of course playoffs dont factor into these awards but for what its worth he batted .381 in the playoffs and was clutch with no production around him in the ALCS, just a joke Seaman from the As was a finalist over him shouldn't have been a finalist over Gleyber let alone DJ.

That's about as homerish an opinion as you'll ever see.

 

[cohenzone]

That's about as homerish an opinion as you'll ever see.

Actually, I can’t imagine one player fitting the MVP definition more than LeMahieu this year. That team has no chance of being what it was with that many key injuries (most NFL teams have fewer players shelved for such long stretches) without LeMahieu. In the field at several positions and obviously at the bat. He might not have been the best player - he wasn’t far off - but nobody was more valuable.

 

[Scoe]

That's about as homerish an opinion as you'll ever see.

That list means absolutely nothing to me.

 

[storrsroars]

That list means absolutely nothing to me.

Of course not. You're a Yankee fan, ergo you know zip about the rest of baseball and are incapable of objectivity.

 

[boba]

Of course not. You're a Yankee fan, ergo you know zip about the rest of baseball and are incapable of objectivity.

And you are, well, an arschloch, and as such deserve disdain and contempt heaped upon you.

 

[Scoe]

That's about as homerish an opinion as you'll ever see.

So me saying DJ should have been an MVP finalist makes me a homer ok.