As I said back on October 16, it's never easy to determine a league's "most valuable player." In fact, you apparently sometimes can't even recognize an MVP when he is on your own team.
Despite my public stance in favor of Miguel Cabrera, the other NL owners felt otherwise. Specifically, they voted for Cabrera's Fleetwood teammate -- first baseman Derrek Lee -- as the league's MVP.
Listed below (in order of finish) were the National League's top MVP vote-getters for 2006:
Name _ _ _____ _ _AVG _OBP _SLG __R 2B 3B HR RBI BB _SO SB CS _RC RC/27
Lee, D. (86) ___ .298 .374 .603 124 38 _6 48 124 74 134 10 _2 141 8.0
Cabrera, M. (78)_.326 .397 .573 123 52 _1 34 113 75 128 _3 _0 146 8.7
Pujols, A. (45)_ .288 .373 .570 117 35 _1 44 103 74 _59 _4 _2 126 7.5
Roberts, B. (27) .332 .407 .525 109 47 _3 19 _88 72 _82 17 _3 129 8.6
Suzuki, I. (24)_ .338 .366 .497 118 22 14 21 _83 31 _63 50 14 130 6.9
Derrek Lee led the balloting with 86 points (including 7 first-place votes), while Miguel Cabrera collected 78 (3 first-place votes), Albert Pujols 45 (0 first-place votes) and Brian Roberts 27 (1 first-place vote). In the end, it seems the voting came down to each player's Triple Crown statistics, as Derrek Lee (.298 avg., 48 HR, 124 RBI) offered the best combination of traditional statistics among these top candidates.
Lee certainly has a strong case for this prestigious award. He led the National League in home runs (48), total bases (384), slugging percentage (.603) and runs scored (124). He also finished 2nd in RBIs (124), stole 10 bases in 12 attempts, and was among the league's best defensive first basemen. It's also worth noting that Lee rebounded from a relatively pedestrian first half-season (.254 avg., 18 HR, 49 RBI in his first 84 games) to post a remarkable second half (.346 avg., 30 HR, 75 RBI in his final 78 games).In terms of sabermetric statistics, Lee did not quite compare to Cabrera (who finished 2nd in the NL in slugging percentage, 6th in on-base percentage, 1st in runs created, and 1st in runs created per 27 outs). Still, though, these more esoteric measures were not enough for Cabrera to overcome Lee's lead in more traditional statistics.
Regardless of your personal preference between the two, it is a testament to Fleetwood's great season that it had the National League's top two MVP finishers. (Not to mention the sixth-place finisher in David Wright as well. But who's counting?)
Derrek Lee - Player Detail Report
Batter Avg AB H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB K OBP Slug OB+Sl
D.Lee .298 637 190 38 6 48 124 74 0 134 .374 .603 .977
vs. Left .345 171 59 12 2 18 42 33 0 34 .451 .754 1.205
vs. Right .281 466 131 26 4 30 82 41 0 100 .339 .547 .886
Batting 1 ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---- ---- ----
Batting 2 1.000 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000
Batting 3 .296 635 188 38 6 48 123 73 0 134 .369 .602 .970
Batting 4 ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---- ---- ----
Batting 5 ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---- ---- ----
Batting 6 ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---- ---- ----
Batting 7 ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1.000 ---- 1.000
Batting 8 1.000 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000
Batting 9 ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ---- ---- ----
Clutch .244 78 19 3 2 2 23 0 0 18 .244 .410 .654
Loaded .100 10 1 0 0 0 8 0 0 4 .100 .100 .200
G PA SH SF HBP CI GDP PAvg PAB PH PHR LOB GWRBI GS TB Streak
Misc. 162 722 1 4 6 0 21 1.000 1 1 0 124 18 0 384 0- 0
GB FB G/F Pitch P/PA RC RC/27 TotAvg Prod IsoPw AB/HR
Averages 249 259 .96 0 .00 141.2 8.02 1.009 .977 .305 13.27
Run SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH BRC BRA BRO
Baserunning 124 10 2 .83 10 2 0 0 0 0 22 6 8
Fielding G GS Inn PO A E DP TP Pct.
1st Baseman 162 158 1409.1 1395 157 7 202 0 .996
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