National League MVP Voting Results
Posted by Andy on October 3, 2007
Well folks, the votes are in.
First, I want to thank all 25 people who voted. This was a very interesting process for me, and the results are really amazing.
The player with the most first-place votes was Jimmy Rollins; however, Matt Holliday is your NL MVP.
Here are the full voting results:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Total 1. Matt Holliday 7 7 6 2 1 1 232 2. Jimmy Rollins 9 5 1 1 2 2 1 1 211 3. David Wright 5 5 3 5 2 3 1 204 4. Prince Fielder 1 4 3 2 5 2 2 3 1 146 5. Chase Utley 1 2 2 4 3 1 1 1 2 108 6. Chipper Jones 1 3 3 2 2 5 4 1 101 7. Hanley Ramirez 1 3 5 3 5 1 96 8. Jake Peavy 1 4 2 2 2 1 1 74 9. Albert Pujols 1 2 2 1 3 1 3 3 73 10. Ryan Howard 1 1 1 1 3 4 1 4 56 11. Miguel Cabrera 1 3 4 3 2 50 12. Jose Reyes 1 2 2 3 1 2 42 13. Ryan Braun 1 2 1 11 14. Eric Byrnes 1 1 8 15t Troy Tulowitzki 1 1 1 6 15t Aaron Rowand 3 6 17. Todd Helton 1 5 18. Barry Bonds 1 2 4 19t Takashi Saito 1 2 19t Russell Martin 1 2 19t Adam Dunn 1 2 19t Jose Valverde 1 2 19t Carlos Lee 2 2
Tidbits about the voting:
- Of the 24 ballots cast with at least the top 8 named, Holliday was on all 24 while Rollins appeared on only 22. Rollins would've needed a 1st and a 2nd on those 2 extra ballots to overtake Holliday for first place.
- Jave Peavy was named on only 13 ballots but finished 8th in the voting. However, many of those votes were cast before he got bombed by the Rockies in the tie-breaker game.
- One other player was named on all 24 of the ballots with the top 8 named: David Wright.
- The Phillies lead the way with 4 players getting votes, and with 3 players in the top 10. Interestingly, the only other top-10 player who is on a playoff team is Holliday.
This was a lot of fun - thanks. Now we all get to sit back and compare these results to the real voting when it comes out.
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:55 am
Not a single Cub got even a single vote. Does this give Piniella the edge over Bob Melvin for Manager of the Year?
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Yeah, shocking ot me that A Ramirez and A Soriano can be completely overlooked. Soriano may have missed a lot of time but he sure did have a lot of huge hits in September.
I don't see how Melvin can win Manager of the Year. Keep in mind that Arizona allowed more runs than it scored.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:21 am
Thanks for tabulating the votes. It will be very interesting to see how the writers voting compares to this.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 am
I liked the voting. It seems very reasonable.
Should there be a post for AL Cy Young award also? That is the only other award without a run away winner. It would be interesting to see how this group votes.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:23 am
I suppose ARod is a shoe-in for AL MVP, but personally I'd place Ortiz and Ordonez ever so slightly ahead of him. All three have had phenomenal years. ARod is NOT a team leader. Do players look to him for inspiration? Jeter's the guy for the Yankees. Ortiz is much more of a leader than ARod.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:37 am
Pish tosh. A-Rod had many bigger hits this year than Jeter. To me, that matters a lot more in MVP voting than inspiration.
Ortiz, who I agree had a phenomenal year, will be dramatically hurt in the voting because his HR numbers aren't where they have been over the last few years, even though his clutch hitting and run-production were just as good, even with Manny Ramirez having a poor season behind him.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Jeter is a terrible fielding shortstop and should have switched positions when the Yankees signed A-Rod, a better shortstop. People may like him, but how exactly does that make him a leader? I think the Yankees would have won 500 games in the past 4 years with A-Rod at SS.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:13 am
I think Ortiz had his best season so far in '07. He doesn't play the field, of course, but at least he doesn't play it badly. I'd still put him in the top five.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:17 am
After re-evaluating (negatively) Rollins's true offensive worth (and to a lesser extent, his defensive worth as well), I probably would have bumped him down to 4 or 5. Pujols and Wright are the best overall players in the NL by a good amount, Hanley Ramirez is the best offensive player at one of the toughest positions, and Holliday had a great year (at Coors field).
So, this ballot is tainted.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Utley is better than Rollins, too.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:27 am
vonhayes, you know I like you, right? I have to say that the idea that the Yankees would have won 500 games in 4 years with A-rod at shortstop is absolutely insane. Even if we assume you meant including postseason, and that the Yanks won the World Series each year, that still comes out to 114 regular-season victories, compared to what they actually averaged of about 97.
There is no way on this planet that A-rod defense at SS versus Jeter's defense at SS could possibly be worth an extra 17 wins per year.
That being said, I definitely agree that Jeter's defense is hugely overrated. He hustles as hard as anybody since Pete Rose, for sure, but he's not the same fielder he once was.
October 4th, 2007 at 11:21 am
It was a rough estimate.
October 4th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Are you going to make an AL MVP thread or what?
October 4th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Rough estimate? We need some of the experts from THT to chime in here, but I can't believe that A-rod's defense compared to Jeter's defense could be worth more than 2-3 games a year, not 17.
October 4th, 2007 at 11:42 am
It was really rough. I take it back. I tend to fly off the handle when talking Jeter vs A-Rod.
Hey, is there a way you could quickly determine if an MVP ever led the league in outs? Or what was the highest ranking in that category for by an MVP?
October 4th, 2007 at 11:46 am
There's no easy way to determine that. My first thought is that it would need to be a leadoff hitter, since they tend to make more outs by virtue of having more PAs. So then I thought of Rickey Henderson, knowing that he won an MVP. But in 1990, he didn't rank among the leaders in outs. In 1981, when he was 2nd in the voting, he did rank 9th in outs.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:01 am
I added the number of votes Holliday received and I realized that he only appeared on 24 of the 25 ballots you received. I'd like to hear the case for not putting him even in the Top 10 for the person who cast that ballot.
October 5th, 2007 at 7:08 am
Go back to the original NL MVP post and you can see that one voter placed only the top 3. He didn't include Holliday or Rollins.