 J.D. Martinez almost won a triple crown this year to not have him in the top three shows you that the the writers are just as drunk on analytics as the front office. It's how do you watch that season and not think he deserves even if you want bets more. Now what probably works to the Red Sox advantage and ultimately bets is if if J.D. Martinez is there it splits the vote and could give it to because who is it's Mookie Betts. No Mookie it was Mookie Betts and Ramirez. So Ramirez made when the MVP just because they would split the vote. Mookie would win it. Mookie is going to win it. Even if J.D. Martinez was there you don't think you could split the vote? Well I mean J.D. Martinez this is just the final three that they finished in the top three I'm sure J.D. Martinez was fourth. So I'm sure he took some votes. But they don't split votes because I mean that's always a misconception. Each city has only two voters so if you split those two voters every other American League city that's 14 other cities have two other voters so there's 28 other votes and I can split all of them if you watch them play all the time only two guys vote from Boston. There's a guy that hit for that kind of batting average with those home runs on a team that won 108 games and give it to Mike Shroud who's an average baseball team best. And again his war is higher than J.D. Martinez I'll give you that but my point of contention is this as Don said they won 108 games World Series doesn't count because the vote is in after the final game. How is J.D. Martinez not more valuable a Red Sox team that couldn't get out of the first round of the playoffs last year they bring in Martinez a team that didn't hit home runs in 2017. Now all of a sudden became a home run any team. How is he not more valuable than Mike Jackson the angels. Stop it with the analytics blindly following and nothing irritates me more than war because nobody ever goes over to the ticket office to say I want to watch that player that's got the best war in the American League. What was Trout's war. Do you know I can tell you I think it's around 10. All right. And what was J.D. Martinez's war. I can tell you. What. See when I look at did Jacob the Grom and I look at his earner on average and look at how much better it was the Max Scherzer or Aaron Nolas. I say to myself you know what he deserves it. But war if you're telling me Trout's is a 10 and J.D. Martinez is a 7 or an 8 it's it's a lousy 2 3 games. That's going to be the difference of winning the MVP because guess what those 2 3 games didn't mean anything to the angels. They were average those 2 3 games might have been the difference of the Red Sox winning the division. I'm amazed. I am amazed. I can't find it right now. I can't imagine that it could be that big of a difference. If you're telling me it's a 10. If J.D. Martinez has like the highest war of all time for this season I'd like to say I like to see what the what the war was. Okay let's see. A stat that's so important that it takes an hour to find it on baseballreference.com. God these the analytics drive me crazy. All right it's going to get it's going to kill this war this year is 10.2 which is outstanding. So what was Martinez. I'm going to tell you right now because we're talking about it's probably somewhere close. Well we'll tell you right that's all we can do is tell you that's all you can do 6.4. But again so less than 4. So what they're saying is trout can win you four more games than Martinez can over 160 games. Also you know what war doesn't show you the protection that Martinez gave everybody else in that lineup. That doesn't get calculated. How about this. All right. Now you can say that trout is a as a plus plus defender and J.D. Martinez is a negative but let's let's let's talk talk rationally right to the analytic guys. Take your visor off. Put the calculator on the shelf all right and your computer should control all the lead for a second for me all right you got your little war stat you get all excited over this Red Sox team couldn't get out of the first round. Would they win 90 what games last year. I don't know but all right one of the vision J.D. Martinez on the team wins a world series and they win the win the division going away. Doesn't that tell you right there instead of all the stats they add J.D. Martinez and look how much better the team became. That's where most valuable player comes into way more wins. I got to look up to see the win loses the war battle because he doesn't play defense. That's it. So then so so if you're not a good defender then you shouldn't be in the MVP conversation. A lot of people eliminate that's why there's no D.H. in the Hall of Fame which is a joke Edgar Martinez should be in the Hall of Fame. Right the fact that his offense was just like through the roof. Absolutely they they play that game he's a D.H. Which I think is offensive because you know what his job is to hit and he's pretty darn valuable as a hitter. So the Red Sox win 93 games last year and they go and they add J.D. Martinez they win 15 more games and I realize the postseason doesn't matter right so the fact that they got into the world series but it tells you the value that they add him all right and they win 15 more games now I'm not saying he should win it Mookie Betts should win it but you're going to give me a guy that's still on an average team I understand I understand if you want to say who's the best player maybe that's what they need to do Michael is they have an MVP and then they have the best player award. But then they would tell you war is wins above replacement so if you give 10 more wins than any replacement level player you're more valuable than six can you can you give me this and if the analytic people want to go after we find I don't care it's still theoretical it's a theoretical wins over replacement all right right it's it's RBI's home runs it's not two plus those those those are tangible and it's not theoretical it is one company's war is different than the next. Oh I've seen that right because ESPN will have a different war right amazing amazing I'm not saying I think the winner is Mookie Betts but that he's not in the top three shows you how addicted people are to these numbers rather than give give the guy credit but he's the difference in the red so they're trying to be cute they're trying that they're that they're trying to be smarter than they're the judge in a boxing match that always goes with the other guy because he sees the he sees the fight different than everybody else because he's smarter than everybody else stop yourself already.