Bored 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 Associated Press NEW YORK -- Barry Bonds won his record sixth National League MVP award Tuesday, becoming the first player to get the honor in three consecutive years. The San Francisco Giants outfielder, the only player to win an MVP award more than three times, received 28 of 32 first-place votes and 426 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Albert Pujols was second with three first-place votes and 303 points. Atlanta Braves outfielder Gary Sheffield got the other first-place vote and was third with 247 points. At 39 years, 3½ months, Bonds is the second-oldest MVP, trailing Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell, who was a few months older when he tied for the award in 1979. Bonds had a difficult season in which his father, Bobby, died in August. Still, Bonds hit .341 with 45 homers and 90 RBI, leading the major leagues in slugging percentage (.749), on-base percentage (.529) and walks. Pujols hit a major league-high .359 with 43 homers and 124 RBI and led the major leagues with 137 runs. He became just the 10th player to finish second in consecutive MVP votes, the first since the Dodgers' Mike Piazza in 1996 and 1997. San Francisco players have won the award four straight times, with Jeff Kent finishing first in the 2000 vote. The Yankees accomplished that feat twice with Yogi Berra (1954-55) and Mickey Mantle (1956-57), and Roger Maris (1960-61), Mantle (1962) and Elton Howard (1963). Bonds gets a $500,000 bonus for winning the award. Sheffield, who became a free agent after the season, earned $75,000 for finishing third. Florida's Juan Pierre gets $200,000 for finishing 10th. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanadianChris 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 Good. He deserved it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkktookmybabyaway 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 Fuck him. As long as you never win a World Series, I don't care what awards you get. Wonder if the trophy is "bigger" than previous years. Oh, yeah. That's right. It's none of our business... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt Young 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 Unlike most people, I have nothing against Bonds, but Pujols was robbed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted November 18, 2003 Idiots. Not the Voters. The Media influenced Idiots that actually buy ESPN and Fox's bullshit bias against Bonds. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 So Eric Gagne got no first place votes? I realize that the MVP award is skewed against pitchers because of the Cy Young, but still... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vern Gagne 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 Unlike most people, I have nothing against Bonds, but Pujols was robbed. He wasn't robbed. Bonds had too good a season, for any other player to be robbed. Pujos could easily of won, and it would of been exceptable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vern Gagne 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 So Eric Gagne got no first place votes? I realize that the MVP award is skewed against pitchers because of the Cy Young, but still... Well. If you don't think a pitcher should win MVP. Why give him any votes at all? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bored 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 The Media influenced Idiots that actually buy ESPN and Fox's bullshit bias against Bonds. HAHAHAHAHAHA Oh please ESPN blubbers all over Bonds any chance they get. Bonds meaningless homeruns get top billing over actually winning games all the time on ESPN. So I suppose its ESPN just making up his association with BALCO? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Czech Republic 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 Well I guess Bonds deserves it because the Giants are awful without him. So Sheffield gets $75,000 for third, and Juan Pierre gets $200,000 for tenth???? I don't get it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2003 So Eric Gagne got no first place votes? I realize that the MVP award is skewed against pitchers because of the Cy Young, but still... Well. If you don't think a pitcher should win MVP. Why give him any votes at all? My point is that I thought that writers would at least acknowledge how valuable Gagne was to his team. MVP should be for ALL players, not "non-pitchers"... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted November 19, 2003 It's hard to justify giving an award to a guy who didn't even play 5% of his team's innings. Not that Gagne wasn't good, but someone had to get the lead in the first place for him to protect it. So Sheffield gets $75,000 for third, and Juan Pierre gets $200,000 for tenth???? I don't get it. It all has to do with the way the team sets up the contracts. Risky players especially are sometimes given incentive clauses in their contracts. Sheffield's proven, so he gets his cash up front. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slayer 0 Report post Posted November 19, 2003 So Sheffield gets $75,000 for third, and Juan Pierre gets $200,000 for tenth???? I don't get it. Bret Boone got a quarter mil for finishing 10th on the AL MVP list apparently there's something really valuable about being #10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EVIL~! alkeiper 0 Report post Posted November 19, 2003 apparently there's something really valuable about being #10 That may be a joke, but there IS something really valuable about being #10. Namely, the 340 guys in the league behind you in the voting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
