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LaMonte Wade Jr. got an MVP vote? Explain yourselfCome here. Sit down. Let’s have a talk. I’m not angry, just disappointed....

The Triple A’s love feeding the AL East MVP candidatesLong live the Oakland Triple-A’s!...

White Sox’s Lucas Giolito and Josh Donaldson star in baseball's latest beefBack before the whole “sticky stuff” scandal came to the foreground of Major League Baseball, Josh Donaldson tweeted out that he had “an entire catalog of video” of pitcher’s cheating that he was planning on releasing....

How well did<em> MLB: The Show</em> choose cover athletes? We rank all 15 player performances that season

One month later than usual, MLB: The Show is finally releasing their 2021 installment. Although the game itself doesn’t fully come out until Tuesday, April 20, today begins the early access release period, meaning if you pre-ordered the game, you’re probably playing it right now....

Deadspin pal Kyle Wagner has a great piece up over at FiveThirtyEight about how much more absurd and revolutionary Russell Westbrook’s year has been than even partisans like us would have it. Go check it out. [FiveThirtyEight]...

Actually, Moe Harkless Is The MVP

With 11:46 remaining in the third quarter of the game way back on April 3 between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Minnesota Timberwolves, Blazers forward Moe Harkless received a pass from Damian Lillard in the right corner, rose to shoot, and rattled in his third three-point basket of the night. ...

Triple-Double King Russell Westbrook Crafts His Masterpiece

In case you were skeptical about Russell Westbrook’s MVP bona fides, consider tonight’s one-man destruction of the Orlando Magic....

Oh, Will You Shut Up About Defense Already?

So, we’ve been bickering about the NBA’s MVP award the past couple days; it’s March, the sports calendar is dead, people get bored, you start fighting over this sort of thing to pass the time. I blogged about it yesterday; Tom Scocca blogged about it today. Both times, the crux of the argument has b...

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Are You Sure Russell Westbrook Should Be MVP? Consider These Stats

An NBA season is not a triple-double-getting contest. Yesterday, Albert Burneko argued that the discussion about who deserves the NBA Most Valuable Player award has lately gone off track—that Russell Westbrook, averaging a triple-double for the Oklahoma City Thunder, has been so thoroughly and overw...

by Tom Scocca|

|Wed Mar 08 2017

Chart: Which City's Baseball MVP Voters Are The Biggest Homers?

Andrew McCutchen won the NL MVP on Thursday, earning 28 of 30 first-place votes. It so happens that the two remaining votes belonged to the two representatives from the ever-obnoxious St. Louis media, who both went with Cardinals' catcher Yadier Molina....

by Reuben Fischer-Baum|

|Wed Sep 28 2016

Miguel Cabrera, AL MVP, again: As expected, the Tigers' third baseman claimed the prize for a second straight year. Cabrera (.348/.442/.636) received 23 of 30 first-place votes. Mike Trout (.323/.432/.557) is your runner-up. He got five first-place votes. Chris Davis and Josh Donaldson got the other...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Thu Nov 14 2013

Justin Verlander Is MVP, Albert Pujols May Be Older Than We Think, And Other Hot Fucking Stove Developments

Your roundup of all the hottest hot-stove items of the day (and whatever shit Ken Rosenthal is throwing against the wall). This is ... HOT FUCKING STOVE!!!...

by Jack Dickey|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Put Away Your Calculators. Joe Mauer Is MVP

Indignant nerds may stand down. Your numerically eviscerating PowerPoint presentation about Derek Jeter's faults is both lovely and precise, but will not be needed this year. (Only an idiotic first-place vote for Miguel Cabrera kept it from being unanimous.) [MPR]...

by Dashiell Bennett|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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