Sadly, NBN1 mistyped his question. The question should be who is the Braves second most valuable player. The answer to that is difficult, and would cause great debate among the message boards.
The answer to the MVP is simple. Knowing that pitchers have their own award, and we're excluding them, this is the real question: Who is the NL (and possible MLB) Player of the month? Who is hitting .421 for the season (which leads MLB)?
The answer: Chipper Jones
Aside from perhaps the Phillies' Chase Utley, there isn't much of a debate right now for NL MVP. If the award was given out now, I think a guy who batted (way) over .400 and still is a gold glove caliber fielder, would win the award. But, being that I am biased, and we can't exclude pitchers, Brandon Webb deserves to be mentioned at 7-0. In terms of stand out players in April, it's a short list.
But Chipper Jones is on it.
|
