{"id":7851,"date":"2013-10-29T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2013-10-29T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T17:23:14","slug":"why-isnt-carlos-gomez-getting-mvp-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7851","title":{"rendered":"Why isn’t Carlos Gomez getting MVP consideration?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Why isn’t Carlos Gomez getting the same attention for MVP that Mike Trout is getting? Photo Denis Poroy\/Getty Images via zimbio.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Simple question.<\/p>\n

Brewers break-out star\u00a0Carlos Gomez<\/strong> led the NL in bWAR<\/a>. \u00a0Gomez played for a non-playoff team and augments his 24-homer<\/a>\/.506 slugging\u00a0bat\u00a0with speed on the basepaths (40 SBs this year) and plus defense in center (he was just named to Bill James<\/strong> Fielding Bible Team<\/a> as the best defensive Center Fielder in the game). \u00a0Yet Gomez will likely lose out on the MVP voting to\u00a0Andrew McCutchen<\/strong>, a player who trails him in the bWAR standings but who played for a playoff team.<\/p>\n

Sounds an awful lot like the\u00a0Mike Trout<\/strong>\/Miguel Cabrera<\/strong> comparison, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Why is nobody talking about Carlos Gomez for the NL MVP? \u00a0In fact, in the litany of post-season award review columns not only do I not see his name prominently mentioned, I’m not seeing it even mentioned in the list of top 5-6 candidates. \u00a0You hear about McCutchen,\u00a0Clayton<\/strong> Kershaw<\/strong> and\u00a0<\/strong>Paul Goldschmidt<\/strong> as the likely top 3 NL candidates, then you hear about guys from the other playoff teams (Yadier Molina\u00a0<\/b>or\u00a0Matt Carpenter<\/strong> from St. Louis,\u00a0Joey Votto<\/strong> from Cincinnati, or\u00a0Freddie Freeman<\/strong> from Atlanta). \u00a0Where’s Gomez on this list?<\/p>\n

If you are a critic of the Miguel Cabrera pick and maintain that Mike Trout deserves the MVP in the AL and use “WAR” as a basis for your argument … then are you similarly arguing that Gomez should win in the NL right now?<\/p>\n

I think the entire Trout-Cabrera argument is tired; i’m tired of hearing it and I’m sure people are tired of talking about it. \u00a0The critics of those who support Cabrera for MVP like to talk about the “narrative” of the MVP, how the award criteria definition on the ballots seems to imply that the winner “should” come from a playoff team. \u00a0But I’m of the opinion that those who blindly live by the WAR stat and support Trout but do NOT similarly demand support of Gomez are falling victim to their own “narrative” as well.<\/p>\n

Ask yourself; if you think Trout is the AL MVP (this year or last year) … then what’s your argument that Gomez is NOT the NL MVP this year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simple question. Brewers break-out star\u00a0Carlos Gomez led the NL in bWAR. \u00a0Gomez played for a non-playoff team and augments his 24-homer\/.506 slugging\u00a0bat\u00a0with speed on the basepaths (40 SBs this year) and plus defense in center (he was just named to Bill James Fielding Bible Team as the best defensive Center Fielder in the game). \u00a0Yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[424,635,1924,426,187,592,1183,1662,1923],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonnatsbaseball","tag-andrew-mccutchen","tag-bill-james","tag-carlos-gomez","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-joey-votto","tag-matt-carpenter","tag-paul-goldschmidt","tag-yadier-molina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}