Ryan Howard for 2008 NL MVP?

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The Phillies' Ryan Howard has been doing gangbusters for the team offensively and if the Phils make it to the 2008 postseason, his chances for an MVP nod only increase.

Howard, the 2006 NL MVP, is hitting only .249 on the season, but is batting .396 (21-for-53) in 14 September games with eight homers and 22 RBI. He hit only .213 with seven homers and 19 RBI in 29 games last month.

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[givemefreakinusename]

It's the stats. Anybody could be super amazing and have a team that sucks. No one by them self can make a team go to the play offs. Batting average is extremely important. You get allot of rbi's if you have a good team. It's generally not an important stat.

[barrackisowronga]

The guy with the lisp is correct, The award is to be given to the best player in the national or american league and no one in their right mind could say that howard was the better player, put a pujols in the phill's lineup last year and they have no reason to need a late season push the dance into the playoffs. Howard is strictly a power hitter. Pujols is the all around better player and the best player in prof. Baseball.

[macreek1]

Batting Average: Pujols .357 - Howard .251

Strikeouts: Pujols 54 - Howard 199

OPS: Pujols 1.115, Howard .882

Pujols had a higher batting average than Howard's on-base percentage, and Howard struck out 4 times as much as Pujols. The only stat where he significantly beats Pujols is RBI's, and that just says that he was on a better team.

[cubeydoo]

and see where the teams would be..the philies most likly in contention because they have rollins, utley, and the hawiian dude i cant remember his name at the moment. the cardinals wouldnt have been above .500 without pujols. the true meaning of mvp isnt he hits a bunch of homeruns, its value what they did for their team and as explained above pujols wins that category, again howard helped get his team a championship but the phillies were capable of a playoff berth with out him, maybe not a title

[cubeydoo]

considering they dont vote for the mvp after the playoffs i think your the idiot here.

You are so defensive its unbelievable, i am in no way shape or form telling you that howard isnt mvp material. All i am trying to point out to you is that pujols carried a team that wasnt supposed to compete and had them in contention for most of the season, howard took a team that was expected to make the playoffs(either wild card or division champs) where they were expected to go. take both off their teams

[TheShottaz]

^^ oh word, so a player who had his team 'contending' for the wild card deserves to be MVP over someone that pulls his team out from the brink of elimination and takes them to the playoffs, where they ultimately won...

fucking idiot

[cubeydoo]

since your a nieve little fuck who wont change his mind set i will go away from just "numbers" to tell you pujols cridentials.

Where were the cardinals expected to finish in their divison and compare that with the expectations set for the philies.

the philies were expected to make a palyoff appearance..maybe not win the division(they did) but the cardinals werent even supposed to contend for a wildcard

now would the cardinals year have been the same without pujols? NO

[texrea21]

who got the mvp

[brxazilian]

Ryan Howard's a homo

[TheShottaz]

cause it's a cop out, 'im right because a bunch of overpaid, out of touch WRITERS say so'

if that's all you got, you lose