The big baseball news of the day was the announcement the Dustin Pedroia was named the American League MVP. A minor footnote to that story, though, was the fact that Pedroia won despite being completely left off the ballot by one of the voters. For what it's worth, voters seem to be getting better at this: they rightly recognized Tim Lincecum as NL Cy Young and Albert Pujols as the NL MVP despite the fact that neither one played on a team that even resembled a playoff contender, which in the past would have disqualified as serious candidates by a lot of voters.
But on the other hand, you're telling me there's someone out there who actually watched the games and didn't walk away thinking that Pedroia was one of the 10 best players in the game? That's not quite as bad as thinking Edison Volquez was still eligible for the NL Rookie of the Year award (which three voters did), but it certainly reeks of a backlash against the Red Sox ... right?
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It's never a good time for both your No. 3 and cleanup hitter to enter a prolonged slump, let alone the first four games of the World Series. But that's the predicament the Rays are in with
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In staving off what would have been one of the most unlikely comebacks ever, the Rays beat the odds themselves, as a team that had never won 70 games before increased their franchise high by 27, finishing first in the best division in baseball. 


