{"id":89,"date":"2007-10-03T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/mvp_2007\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:22:15","slug":"mvp_2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/mvp_2007\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/leagues\/NL_2007.shtml\">National League<\/a> MVP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/h\/hollima01.shtml\">Matt Holliday<\/a>.  Led the league in BA, H, XBH, 2B, RBI, TB, and RC, and finished near the top in other categories.  Carried his team to the post-season, not to mention scoring the winning run of the final game.  Runner Up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/f\/fieldpr01.shtml\">Prince Fielder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/leagues\/AL_2007.shtml\">American League<\/a> MVP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/r\/rodrial01.shtml\">Alex Rodriguez<\/a>.  Led the league in R, SLG, OBP, TB, HR, RBI, and RC.  Basically carried his team until their 50% payroll surplus was able to get them out of a long funk.  Runner Up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/o\/ortizda01.shtml\">David Ortiz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ajah.com\/img\/blank.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"100%\" style=\"background-color:#cccccc;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TBS seems to have gone to the FOX school of baseball broadcasting.  Missing the beginning of innings so they can squeeze a promo in is unacceptable.  Not only that, but it&#8217;s a promo for a damned re-run, and the same one they show every half-inning!  Much like I was forced to boycott House because of FOX&#8217;s incessant promotion of it during the 2004 playoffs, I&#8217;m not watching The Office on TBS.  Luckily since it&#8217;s on NBC first, I won&#8217;t be missing anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National League MVP: Matt Holliday. Led the league in BA, H, XBH, 2B, RBI, TB, and RC, and finished near the top in other categories. Carried his team to the post-season, not to mention scoring the winning run of the final game. Runner Up: Prince Fielder. American League MVP: Alex Rodriguez. Led the league in&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/mvp_2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MVP 2007<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[219,211,220],"series":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-sports-2","tag-awards","tag-mvp","tag-tbs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1AkJt-mvp_2007","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}