By Jay Jaffe
Baseball Prospectus

Monday, August 31, 2009

As the recent scrum between supporters of the MVP candidacies of Joe Mauer and Mark Teixeira reminds us, nearly every Most Valuable Player Award is capable of producing controversy. Not only do the voters from the Baseball Writers Association of America rarely elect the player who, via some objective formula, is worth the most wins to his team, they appear to shift their standards from year to year. In recent seasons, defensive value has been minimized or entirely ignored in favor of heavy hitt ...

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