Reds MVP - Aurilia?

by Red Menace on Sep 5, 2005 8:18 PM EDT

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050905/SPT04/509050364/1071

That's the Enquirer article: Narron: Aurilia may be MVP. Fay notes that the Reds' slide has occurred when Aurilia got injured. Ludicrous, I'm sure we would all agree.

So who is the MVP of the 05 Reds? Here's what the fancy-schmancy stats have to say:

Win Shares (from TheHardballTimes.com, through Aug 30)

Dunn 26
Griffey 22
Lopez 16
LaRue 15
Casey 14
Aurilia 13
Randa 11
Freel 11
Valentin 10
Harang 8
Pena 8
Kearns 8

VORP (from BaseballProspectus.com)
Griffey 63.3
Dunn 51.4
Lopez 39.7
Casey 39.0
Randa 27.9
LaRue 25.6
Valentin 22.9
Freel 21.8
Aurilia 19.6
Pena 17.7
Kearns 14.2

Poll

Who is the Reds' MVP

Freel

0 votes

Other

0 votes

Griffey

22 votes

Dunn

6 votes

Casey

0 votes

Aurilia

0 votes

Randa

0 votes

Lopez

6 votes

Larue

0 votes

Valentin

0 votes

34 votes | Poll has closed

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Good lord

I'll certainly admit that he's turned his season around, but he's still a pretty mediocre player. Look at his home/road splits:

Home: .972 OPS
Road: .562 OPS

That's reason alone for the Reds to forgo signing him in 2006.

And it's absurd to suggest that he's been a better player this season than Ken Griffey Jr. or Adam Dunn. Or hell, Sean Casey. Or Felipe Lopez. The catchers have been better as well.

I'm still not impressed at all with the guy. He whines on top of everything else.

And yet the Cincinnati media is pegging him as the team MVP. Unreal.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde

by JD Arney on Sep 5, 2005 11:03 PM EDT reply actions