Because it should mean something. If it's most valuable player to me that means you've helped your team win and if you help your team win enough to get to the post season that should mean something. this is gonna ramble so forgive me. In football if your team is always down you stop running the ball so your qb gets a ton of passing yards and touchdowns. But it really doesn't matter cause you were down by 20 or 30 pts anyway. Eventually you have to put up those numbers to win actual games not just a stat guy. Would you rather have Peyton or Brady. Peyton's stats were better but Brady is the qb everyone wants. I know it's not apples to apples but that's just my thinking. Trout is amazing and it shouldn't matter how bad his team is but to me it does. You gotta at least be in the discussion of the playoffs not 20 plus games out of first.