Heyman 1st half awards: Trout MVP

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

http://cbsprt.co/1Jg3kut

Nice flip flop by Heyman, who a week earlier said it was Donaldon.

Way to go Mike! Not that Heyman means anything.

[WallyWorld]

Heyman is such a soggy bag of dicks. He also has a typo in there, saying Trout has 36 HRs to date this season.

 

He also tweeted this last night:

 

Jon Heyman â€@JonHeymanCBS  17h

17 hours ago

Heard on the stairwell exiting great American ballark from an 8-yr-old: "another good thing ... albert pujols didn't win!"

 

Why would a supposed professional sportswriter bother tweeting that? What was his point? Dude has gone out of his way to take shots at the Angels for years now and it's really gotten old.

Edited July 14, 2015 by WallyWorld

[ELEVEN]

Hey man

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Heyman is such a soggy bag of dicks. He also has a typo in there, saying Trout has 36 HRs to date this season.

He also tweeted this last night:

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 17h

17 hours ago

Heard on the stairwell exiting great American ballark from an 8-yr-old: "another good thing ... albert pujols didn't win!"

Why would a supposed professional sportswriter bother tweeting that? What was his point? Dude has gone out of his way to take shots at the Angels for years now and it's really gotten old.

Obviously that little SOB was racist.

[Lou]

how the hell did Heyman know he was 8 years old?

easy. it never happened

[ELEVEN]

Eight year olds, Dude...

[IEAngelsfan]

Troudidation!

[IEAngelsfan]

how the hell did Heyman know he was 8 years old?

easy. it never happened

Maybe he was stalking, er I mean following the little boy.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Heyman was in a stairwell with an 8yo? Was Jared Fogle there too?

[stevestevens]

Heyman is such a soggy bag of dicks. He also has a typo in there, saying Trout has 36 HRs to date this season.

 

He also tweeted this last night:

 

Jon Heyman â€@JonHeymanCBS  17h

17 hours ago

Heard on the stairwell exiting great American ballark from an 8-yr-old: "another good thing ... albert pujols didn't win!"

 

Why would a supposed professional sportswriter bother tweeting that? What was his point? Dude has gone out of his way to take shots at the Angels for years now and it's really gotten old.

 

I think it is more of a comment on how much the Reds fans hate Pujols and the Cards.  It has nothing to do with him being an Angel.  

[ELEVEN]

I think it is more of a comment on how much the Reds fans hate Pujols and the Cards. It has nothing to do with him being an Angel.

Narrative Destroyer!

[Docwaukee]

Albert tanked so Pederson's brother could watch him win.  

[wopphil]

This is kind of a no-brainer. Does someone else deserve the award? If the season ended today, Trout would win the award unanimously. Again.

Edited July 14, 2015 by wopphil

[stevestevens]

This is kind of a no-brainer. Does someone else deserve the award? If the season ended today, Trout would win the award unanimously. Again.

 

He would not win it unanimously.  People are going to start looking for anyone else that they could possibly vote for outside of Trout.  Not because they do not like him but because what he is doing is now just another Mike Trout being the best player season.  Trout is a machine.    

[Broad Street]

Trout is a machine, but he's not the MVP of the American League right now. Yeah, he leads the league in runs and is up there in OBP, SLG%, and OPS. Even though he's hurt, Miggy leads Trout in most categories minus home runs (shouldn't be the lead reason for MVP) and RBI's. It's also hard to ignore what Prince Fielder has done as well, though he gets points marked off for not playing defense. Also, a dark horse candidate to me, at least for the MVP at the end of the season, is Manny Machado. He's an absolute assassin with the glove, even more so than Josh Donaldson, and is only 1 point behind Trout for the AL WAR lead. Trout is great, but don't just pencil him in because he's Trout and he's awesome. He's not really running away with it.

[wopphil]

Trout is a machine, but he's not the MVP of the American League right now. Yeah, he leads the league in runs and is up there in OBP, SLG%, and OPS. Even though he's hurt, Miggy leads Trout in most categories minus home runs (shouldn't be the lead reason for MVP) and RBI's. It's also hard to ignore what Prince Fielder has done as well, though he gets points marked off for not playing defense. Also, a dark horse candidate to me, at least for the MVP at the end of the season, is Manny Machado. He's an absolute assassin with the glove, even more so than Josh Donaldson, and is only 1 point behind Trout for the AL WAR lead. Trout is great, but don't just pencil him in because he's Trout and he's awesome. He's not really running away with it.

You are not for real, right? Are you suggesting Cabrera is the MVP? If not Cabrera, then who?

[Hollyw00d]

Trout MVP

Weaver CY young

Salad best reliever in the world

[Make Angels Great Again]

Trout is a machine, but he's not the MVP of the American League right now. Yeah, he leads the league in runs and is up there in OBP, SLG%, and OPS. Even though he's hurt, Miggy leads Trout in most categories minus home runs (shouldn't be the lead reason for MVP) and RBI's. It's also hard to ignore what Prince Fielder has done as well, though he gets points marked off for not playing defense. Also, a dark horse candidate to me, at least for the MVP at the end of the season, is Manny Machado. He's an absolute assassin with the glove, even more so than Josh Donaldson, and is only 1 point behind Trout for the AL WAR lead. Trout is great, but don't just pencil him in because he's Trout and he's awesome. He's not really running away with it.

 

Trout and Cabrera have an identical wRC+ of 184.

 

The difference is that Trout has stayed on the field, and has better baserunning and defensive stats while playing a premium position. 

 

That is kind of why he has an advantage in WAR of 5.5 versus 3.4

[Pujols4MVP]

When Miggy & Fielder are on base they are liability with slow moving legs. Vladdy could probally out run them still.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

 

The difference is that Trout has stayed on the field, and has better baserunning and defensive stats while playing a premium position. 

 

Typically doesn't mean sh!t.

Sincerely,

BBWAA

[AngelsFanSince86]

Trout is a machine, but he's not the MVP of the American League right now. Yeah, he leads the league in runs and is up there in OBP, SLG%, and OPS. Even though he's hurt, Miggy leads Trout in most categories minus home runs (shouldn't be the lead reason for MVP) and RBI's. It's also hard to ignore what Prince Fielder has done as well, though he gets points marked off for not playing defense. Also, a dark horse candidate to me, at least for the MVP at the end of the season, is Manny Machado. He's an absolute assassin with the glove, even more so than Josh Donaldson, and is only 1 point behind Trout for the AL WAR lead. Trout is great, but don't just pencil him in because he's Trout and he's awesome. He's not really running away with it.

 

and runs scored, OPS+,stolen bases, slugging %, total bases, sacrifice hits, defense... 

Edited July 14, 2015 by AngelsFanSince86

[WallyWorld]

Based on the season thus far, voting for anyone but Trout would be the NBA effect of spreading it around and not wanting fans to get bored - otherwise Jordan would have won it most every year he was in the league.

[Lou]

Trout is a machine, but he's not the MVP of the American League right now. Yeah, he leads the league in runs and is up there in OBP, SLG%, and OPS. Even though he's hurt, Miggy leads Trout in most categories minus home runs (shouldn't be the lead reason for MVP) and RBI's. It's also hard to ignore what Prince Fielder has done as well, though he gets points marked off for not playing defense. Also, a dark horse candidate to me, at least for the MVP at the end of the season, is Manny Machado. He's an absolute assassin with the glove, even more so than Josh Donaldson, and is only 1 point behind Trout for the AL WAR lead. Trout is great, but don't just pencil him in because he's Trout and he's awesome. He's not really running away with it.

 

 

noticeably absent is any mention of defense

[tomsred]

74 more games to go, then the real MVP will surface.

[ELEVEN]

74 more games to go, then the real MVP will surface.

He apparently already has.