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If the season ended today …

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Is it too soon to mail Albert Pujols his National League MVP trophy right now? Seriously. With all due respect to the fabulous work of Hanley Ramirez, Pablo Sandoval, Troy Tulowitzki, Chase Utley and many other upstanding NL citizens, what would have to happen in September for Pujols not to win another MVP award? Would he have to go 0-for-112? Hit into a double play every time up? Defect to Kyrgyzstan? OK, maybe all of the above. And he'd still probably win this thing. So that concludes our d ...

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