{"id":118976,"date":"2012-09-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2012\/09\/12\/mike-trout-undisputed-al-mvp\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:00:00","slug":"mike-trout-undisputed-al-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/mike-trout-undisputed-al-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Your non-Mike Trout MVP arguments are invalid"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tDear America,<\/p>\n
\n\tMike Trout is going to be the American League MVP. Please stop pretending otherwise. It is really annoying.<\/p>\n
\n\tSincerely,<\/p>\n
\n\tLogical people<\/p>\n
\n\t <\/p>\n
\n\tIf you disagree with that statement, then clearly you don't belong to the classification of "logical people." In which case, this article is for you! And that, frankly, is kind of annoying. This really shouldn't be that hard, but some of you are trying to make it that way.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor example, there has been a minor groundswell in the last few weeks to inject Adrian Beltre into the AL MVP conversation. Now, Beltre has been having a very good season and has been red hot of late. One could certainly make the case that he is the MVP of the Rangers, but of the league? Not so much. In fact, his best argument is that he is the best player on the best team in baseball. That is, well, something, but it doesn't make him the best player in the league, not when his OPS+ is over 40 points below that of Mike Trout.<\/p>\n