Somehow, it's already time for midseason MLB awards. We should really break the MVP into two awards – the Most Valuable Ohtani and the MVP for Normal Humans. jaysonst weighs in on the best players as the break approaches.
In a lot of ways, I feel sorry for Willson Contreras. It still feels odd that the Cardinals chose him as the catching savant who would ease the pain of life after Yadi Molina. If they’d just traded for, say, Sean Murphy, I doubt Contreras ever would have ascended the LVP medal stand.
Just to review: LVP deliberations come down to that magic formula – what was expected versus what actually happened. And what actually happened can’t always be someone else’s fault.The contract was five years, $87.5 million. As with Abreu, it was the heftiest free-agent contract the Cardinals have ever handed out to a player who hadn’t previously worn their uniform. It’s also more money than the deals they agreed to with Yadi over the last five years, for whatever that’s worth.
It wasn’t fair to think he’d orchestrate a game like the catching legend he succeeded. But it was fair to think he’d at least hit — after firing up the second-most extra-base hits and third-best OPS of any catcher in baseball over the previous four years. Instead, here is …we get to the numbers, we can’t ignore the context. This team always knew that no one could remotely approach the connection that its pitching staff had with Yadi.
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