Well, first of all, who gives a crap?
Both teams are battling for their playoff lives and all everyone seems to care about is who will get some award voted on by a bunch of bitter sports writers in November.
Second of all, why bother debating it, since the winner of the award will likely be decided next weekend when the two teams play at Fenway in what will likely be a win-or-go-home scenario.
Third of all, how come Cleveland's Travis Hafner is not being included in this debate?
The award is called the MVP, but it's really a player of the year award. But if we were judging who is the most valuable player to have, it's gotta be Hafner in my book.
First of all, A-Rod and Papi are surrounded by great hitters up and down their lineups. I mean, A-Rod has the Balco Twins hitting behind him and Jeter hitting in front of him. He's never gonna get pitched around. Papi has Manny (Mr. Met 2006) Ramirez hitting behind him. He's never gonna get walked intentionally.
Hafner? This dude has pretty much carried Cleveland to the greatest second-half surge I have seen in a long time.
He's hit 5 of his 31 HRs against the White Sox - the team the Tribe is battling for the AL Central crown. By the way, those 5 HRs have come in 55 at-bats. Pretty good stuff. He's hit 9 HRs with runners in scoring position and 4 HRs with RISP and two outs. He's also hit 8 HRs with two outs and a runner on first.
He's batting .333 with RISP and two outs, and 29 RBIs.
He has 9 HRs in the month of September and has 6 HRs in the last 7 days.
He also doesn't have an All-Star in front of him and behind him in the order. Sure, like Papi, he's a DH, but ask yourself this - Would the Yanks and Red Sox still be in the hunt without A-Rod and Papi. And would the Indians - who have a better record than both the Yanks and Sox - be where they are without Hafner?
Just something to think about.
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