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7 hours ago, huge said:

Look, I'd love it if Bregman won the award.

But the team record thing has never made a lot of sense to me. There is no logic to the idea that Bregman is more valuable because he plays with Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole instead of Matt Harvey, or Jose Altuve instead of Tommy LaStella, or George Springer instead of Kole Calhoun, or Yordan Alvarez or Yuli Gurriel instead of geriatric Albert Pujols, etc. If anything, it makes Trout more valuable relative to his team. 

There are metrics that have been developed that estimate how many "wins" a player adds to his team. Every front office uses these metrics to value players. 

Alex is closing the gap on Trout, and if he stays hot and Trout struggles with the toe injury the rest of the way, Bregman can make this a tight race. But I'm not buying that he's "more valuable" than Trout simply because he has better teammates. He's got to have the numbers as well. 

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