Evan Grant, a Dallas Morning News reporter who covers the Texas Rangers, has been grilled over the last few days for failing to include AL MVP, Dustin Pedroia, anywhere on his MVP ballot. Of all the writers who voted on the AL MVP, Grant was the ONLY person to have not ranked DP anywhere within the Top 10 candidates.
I hate the Red Sox as much as everyone else, but c'mon! That little dude was definitely Top 10 material. And while Grant has stated that he "made a mistake," he added fuel to the fire yesterday by doing a radio interview with WEEI, a local Boston radio station, and attempted to continue presenting evidence justifying Pedrioa's omission:
*Desperation Warning*
Please be prepared for: Guy that has lost the argument but refuses to go quietly into the night...so he finds one very obscure piece of evidence supporting his stance and holds on for dear life...Cliffhanger style!!
Grant: "...he [Pedroia] was 53rd in OBP with runners in scoring position …"
Poor Evan. He's a good guy and knows his stuff...he just had a mental lapse on this one. It's great to focus on stats...but using "OBP with runners in scoring position" as a statistical measuring stick for the MVP? That is simply ludicrous.
Evan...let's just pretend that this never happened!
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