Word: ortiz
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Geez, David Ortiz...
...look at Ortiz, who deserved the MVP even more than Delgado. In the last two months of the season, Ortiz hit 19 homers and drove in 47 RBI. He collected an astounding 16 game-winning hits for the Red Sox, which was in the middle of a heated race, first for the AL East and then for the wild card...
...there was no Barry Bonds or Albert Pujols this season. We’re left with A-Rod and Carlos Delgado, the two “statistical” MVPs, and a bunch of feel good, fuzzy stories—like David Ortiz, Jorge Posada and Shannon Stewart—who had nice seasons but who only garnered consideration because their teams...
Let’s face it. Statistically, A-Rod blows Ortiz out of the water. A-Rod hit 47 homers. Ortiz hit 31. A-Rod had 124 runs and 118 RBIs. Ortiz had 79 runs and 101 RBIs. A-Rod had a .396 OBP and stole 17 bases to boot. Ortiz had a .369 OBP, and the Cookie Monster stole a whopping zero bases...
...core is made up of players developed through their own system (Williams, Jeter, Posada, Rivera, and Pettitte) or acquired in shrewd trades (like the pitcher in the “twilight of his career”), the Red Sox are made up almost entirely of free agents, like Manny, Ortiz, Millar, and Walker, or players picked up in fire sales, like Pedro Martinez...