| 23 September 2009
What's that you say? Joe Mauer is less worthy of the MVP than Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira, or Miguel Cabrera?
There are a total of four qualified players since league integration who have put up at least a .372 batting average, .442 on-base percentage, .609 slugging percentage, and 182 OPS+.
When you insert Cabrera's numbers, you find that 99 others have put up better numbers. There are 176 better seasons than Jeter and 268 better seasons than Teixeira.
Is there any question that Mauer is having one of the best offensive seasons in history? The race all boils down to that pesky "valuable" word, which either means nothing or everything... depending on whom you ask.
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