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Albert Pujols Approved By You As 2008 NL MVP

Voting is now closed on the 2008 National League MVP, and you all voted Albert Pujols the winner by a huge margin.  242 readers approved of Pujols winning the award, with Lance Berkman second at 93 votes, and Chase Utley third at 70 votes.  Unfortunately, PollDaddy doesn't count the number of ballots submitted, only the total number of votes cast, so I can't tell you what percentage of voters listed Pujols on their ballots.  But given the the number of responses to other polls, I'm estimating his approval rate at about 80%, given 300 ballots submitted.

Here are the total votes for everyone listed on the ballot and their estimated approval percentage.  You all are a pretty smart crowd.  (Note that I accidentally left Ryan Howard off the ballot and there was just a bit Ryan Braun rick-rolling from BrewCrewBall.)

Player Votes Approval
Albert Pujols 242 81%
Lance Berkman 93 31%
Chase Utley 70 23%
Ryan Braun 64 21%
Hanley Ramirez 57 19%
David Wright 52 17%
Chipper Jones 50 17%
Carlos Beltran 49 16%
Manny Ramirez 26 9%
Geovany Soto 26 9%
Matt Holliday 25 8%
Carlos Delgado 17 6%
Aramis Ramirez 16 5%
Pat Burrell 13 4%
Jose Reyes 10 3%
Brian McCann 10 3%
Russell Martin 8 3%
Ryan Ludwick 7 2%
Brian Giles 7 2%
Carlos Lee 5 2%
Dan Uggla 4 1%

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I just found this site tonight. It’s nice to see there’s bright fans out there that realize HR and RBI aren’t the be all and end all. So, Howard was left out accidentally? LOL! That is funny. How much support do you think he’d have garnered? I think it’s quite amusing that the national sports media seems to feel he’s right up there with Pujols in contention for this award. He’s not even the MVP of his own team if you ask me. And to me he’s the modern day Dave Kingman and I don’t recall Kingman getting much positive recognition back in the day.

Peace, love, and hair grease,
Smitty

by smittyredbirdsfan on Oct 3, 2008 1:15 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

He certainly would have finished ahead of Delgado and Manny (not that I think they should have been that high)

And fallen somewhere in the Beltran to Hanley range. Not ahead of Braun, I don’t think.

Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.

by Sky Kalkman on Oct 3, 2008 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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