Morneau wins MVP

Jeter

I just saw that!! WooHoo!!

Derek Jeter who??

well deserved !

So much for the east coast bias…good for Morneau…he deserves it!!

That is absolutely awesome news!

Gold Gloves, Batting champion, Cy Young, second best manager, and MVP and should have had the rookie of the year in Lariano and what does all that equal

AL MVP made $385000 this year. NL MVP made $350,000. Two pretty good bargains when you look at what other make in that crazy world of Major League Baseball.
Those guys will be set for quite a while after next year….

Many months ago I said Santana will win the Cy Young,
and Morneau will win the MVP…
Congratulations to the Twins…

I wish I would have gotten a few lottery tickets, too.
Jack..

I believe he deserved it. It does come as a bit of a surprise tough. I checked out the poll on ESPN.com yesterday and it had Justin trailing significantly. He had only 17 percent of the vote..less than half of what Jeter had.

Well Deserved!

Im actually kinda puzzled by the choice.. I dont think he was even the MVP on the twins.. so how could he be league MVP? I would say Santanna, Mauer, and Hunter were all MV than him…. I guess I dont understand how they figure this out!… and on the NL side too.. Id say that one was wrong also… but oh well.. it is what it is…. I guess…. they both had great years… probably career years… and maybe thats what they were thinking

course.. on the other hand.. I wouldnt want to see jeter win….

wow.. Im a real thread killer.. just cuz I DONT understand.. should not dampen anyones joy at the fact that JM WON!… and WHO wants a yankee to win anyway? color me there to see a twin win ANY time!….. they are the underdog… small market… low budget… get things done the right way… maybe in the end.. THATS why JM won… simply because in a JUST world.. it should simply BE that way…….!.. make sense? why should it? even if JM might not be the MVP on the twins.. heck.. that dont mean he cant be LEAGUE MVP!… in fact… Id think outside of another twins player.. just WHO would you pick anyway?

I am really glad to see Justin win this
I thought his bat coming through with consistency after the dreadful April/May was a real turning point for this team. I agree others on the team could/should have been considered, but I still got a shiver seeing Justin tye for most RBI in a season by a Canadian born player as the year came to a close, so I know he had the consistency all season. Yes, the best part was NO jeter.

dave

At first I thought this was a joke! But good for him and good for the TWINS This should make for some good arbitration this off season with a MVP and a Batting Champ. I think they take him as the MVP of the twins because you can make the argument that when he started to hit the twins started to win! The same could be said of Santana and Mauer but with Morneaus numbers it is hard to argue because he made the impact every day where as Santana had 1 out of 5 days and MAUER took a many days off like Catchers do! Either way
GO TWINS

JM won because of what his contributions meant for the team. Yes, Hunter had a career year, but he has come close to 30 HR’s and 100 rbi before, Santana no doubt about what he accomplished, but he only played every 5 days. If you read JM’s bio on his season, the part that makes him MVP is this, “The twins were 25-33 on June 7th and Morneau was not having a great year. From June 8th to the end of the season, he hit .362, higher than anyone else in the MAJORS, hit a million HR’s and a ton of RBI. The Twins turned their season around and won a league best 71 games from that point of the season.”

Without JM’s turnaround, the Twins were dead in the water and Hunter and Santana may still have had the totals they ended with.

He was no doubt the MVP on the Twins and the sportswriters got this one right. Jeter was being considered because he’s a good player, a classy guy, and the Yanks were the Yanks. His numbers were NOT mvp worthy.

I’d actually argue that Cuddyer was more MVP worthy than Mauer. I’m a big believer in the guys that drive ’em in.

It’s fun to support a team that has had six straight winning seasons, and had the league batting champion, Cy Young winner, and AL MVP.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!