| G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BA | OBP | SLG |
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
| 162 | 605 | 124 | 194 | 29 | 1 | 48 | 130 | 21 | .321 | .421 | .610 |
David Ortiz, DH
| 159 | 600 | 118 | 179 | 40 | 1 | 47 | 147 | 1 | .298 | .395 | .603 |
Manny Ramirez, LF
| 152 | 553 | 111 | 161 | 30 | 1 | 44 | 141 | 1 | .291 | .386 | .588 |
Gary Sheffield, RF
| 153 | 581 | 104 | 169 | 27 | 0 | 34 | 123 | 10 | .291 | .379 | .513 |
What does it mean to be most valuable? Neither team could have gotten where they did without their top players. Joe Morgan is on TV saying that David Ortiz secured the nod with the Red Sox making the playoffs. I tend to think this is Yankee backlash. Morgan has never been a big fan of the DH. Would Boston have missed Ortiz anymore than the Yankees missed ARod?
And with all the talk of the Yankees buying their way into the playoffs every year, the Yankees almost bought themselves out of contention this year. The Yanks wasted so much money on the likes of Kevin Brown, Jaret Wright, and Carl Pavano that they had to rely on castaway Shawn Chacon, and the unproven Aaron Small and Chien-Ming Wang. It could have been a lot easier last year and this year had they just re-signed Andy Pettite and Roger Clemens. I doubt Boston would have won the series last year or been such competition this year had the Yankees retained the duo.
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Big Papi's numbers would look a whole lot more impressive without Manny's similar numbers sitting right next to them. Take Ortiz away and you get identical production out of the DH slot from Ramirez. I'm not certain Ortiz is the most valuable player of his own team, though he certainly had a great offensive season.
ARod not only played a position, but didn't miss a game, AND posted better offensive numbers than Ortiz and Ramirez. I don't see where there is even an argument who should be MVP. ARod will win his second and Pujols, thanks to Bonds' mortality, will win his long-overdue first.
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