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Bonds, Tejada take home the MVP hardware

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Friday, September 27, 2002

No sweeping exits. No offstage lines. Just our annual end-of-season awards. The envelopes please ... NL MVP Barry Bonds: We suppose you could argue that a guy whose home run total will drop by almost 30 -- and a guy who won't lead his own team in RBI -- isn't the MVP. We even concede there are cases to be made for everyone from John Smoltz to Albert Pujols to Lance Berkman. But Bonds' 65 intentional walks -- eight of them with first base occupied -- say it all. There is no player in baseball m ...

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