If you had an NL MVP vote, would you give it to...

[stevenash]

Matt Kemp
or
Ryan Braun

[moses millsap]

Braun. Much harder to perform when your games matter. I would've barely given the Cy Young to Kershaw only because Lee and Halladay weren't that strong down the stretch. Playing a ton of games against the weak NL West and their pitcher friendly parks inflated his numbers a little IMHO.

[DrStale]

Braun, but im biased.

[MendozaLine]

if the NL West has all of the pitcher friendly parks, wouldn't that make Kemp's numbers even more impressive?

Braun. Much harder to perform when your games matter. I would've barely given the Cy Young to Kershaw only because Lee and Halladay weren't that strong down the stretch. Playing a ton of games against the weak NL West and their pitcher friendly parks inflated his numbers a little IMHO.

[Big Bear]

Lance Berkman would get my vote.

[Powderguy]

Kemp

[William Walters]

Kemp....all day.

Bump Kemp's numbers if Fielder hitting behind him and hitting in more hitter friendly parks.

[Landscaper]

Braun..he carried that team when they were out of first place into first place by a number of games in the second half

[King Mayan]

Matt kemp.. He fukks celebrities..

[moses millsap]

if the NL West has all of the pitcher friendly parks, wouldn't that make Kemp's numbers even more impressive?

Braun batted .352 (12 for 34) in the 4 NL West parks. Kemp batted .327 (131 for 401) in those 4 parks. Extremely small sample size, but I still value coming through with big hits in a playoff race than just going out and playing for stats on a team totally out of contention. Still think Kemp wins, but I would vote for Braun personally.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/7780/splits;_ylt=AjGiv67Wp2fbjwDhmdhGeXaFCLcF

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/8034/splits;_ylt=AjGiv67Wp2fbjwDhmdhGeXaFCLcF

Kershaw's numbers would not have been as strong if he had pitched all his home games in Philly instead of Dodger Stadium; not a fact, just my opinion.

[samgurt]

Nick punto

[moses millsap]

Nick punto

3rd on my ballot.

[moses millsap]

Braun wins.

[neverstoppers23]

Ryan braun by far. He has similar stats to Kemp, braun higher average, a little less rbis, a little less sbs. However braun almost never got to run, he had to be perfect because he was batting ahead of fielder. So his only chance to run was with the manager gave him the sign, he just didn't have the go ahead to go whenver he wanted like most top tier sbs hve.


Also Braun played in a play-off race, he had to have clutch games to clinch the brewers into the playoffs. Kemp just had it easy and had no pressure on him and go swing free.

Braun already got jacked the batting title by jose reyes being a bitch, losing the mvp title would be too much.

[thebestthereis]

3rd on my ballot.

Punto will not make the top 5, maybe, not likely IMO.

[DrStale]

Braun takes it!

[stevenash]

Braun takes it!

Yes he did.

[neverstoppers23]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7269575/ryan-braun-milwaukee-brewers-wins-nl-mvp

brauny!!!!!!

hell yeah!

he deserves and to think the guy is gonna be with us his whole career. one of the best offensive players in the game. and to make it even better we got him at a great great rate, or the dodgers over-paid for kemp whatever one it is i am happy.

thank you bruan. you will go down as the best brewer ever.

[samgurt]

Punto will not make the top 5, maybe, not likely IMO.

I hope you realize we were joking...

[neverstoppers23]

braun ran away with it basically, like i said voters like to go with the guy in the pennet race. Braun was the obvious choice.

[moses millsap]

I hope you realize we were joking...

Speak for yourself. I was not.

[benjy]

if the NL West has all of the pitcher friendly parks, wouldn't that make Kemp's numbers even more impressive?

Damn straight.

Kemp.

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