Orioles' Buck Showalter Thinks Manny Machado Deserves MVP Consideration

[PressBoxOnline]

Orioles third baseman Manny Machado had a breakout season in 2015, and manager Buck Showalter believes he deserves consideration for AL MVP. http://www.pressboxonline.com/2015/10/08/orioles-buck-showalter-thinks-manny-machado-deserves-mvp-consideration

[TonySoprano]

Buck wants the national media to make a different decision than the local media that chose Davis?

[Frobby]

Manny should get some top 5 votes, but I can't see him getting any 1st place votes. He wasn't even voted MVO, remember?

[Larry18]

I think Manny and Chris Davis deserve consideration. I also believe that Josh Donaldson will win as writers tend to turn this into a team award.

[Can_of_corn]

He deserves consideration.

He doesn't deserve to win it.

I wouldn't expect anything else from Buck.

Machado will finish higher then Davis in the MVP voting.

[Can_of_corn]

I think Manny and Chris Davis deserve consideration. I also believe that Josh Donaldson will win as writers tend to turn this into a team award.

Trout had the slightly better year but generally speaking the player on a playoff team gets the benefit of the doubt.

[DrungoHazewood]

Donaldson will win it, as Trout continues his Williams-like tendency to be the best player in the league while the writers figure ways to not give him the award. Machado has an argument for 3rd or 4th-best player in the league.

[El Gordo]

Going by fWAR it's:

Trout

Donaldson

Manny

Cain

Davis

[abbott]

That's what good managers do, promote their players. But it would have been awkward to push DAVIS only to have him leave.

[Can_of_corn]

That's what good managers do, promote their players. But it would have been awkward to push DAVIS only to have him leave.

That and Manny is the better player.

[Spy Fox]

Manny and Davis will both be top 10 finishers, and Manny probably top five. But neither has any argument against Donaldson/Trout.

[hendu]

Rotoworld, FWIW, had Manny 4th and Crush 11th. IIRC, Cain (3rd) and Manny were basically interchangeable for them.

-Acronym Guy

[abbott]

That and Manny is the better player.

Not arguing that. Manny is so much better. Davis and his 200+ Ks can leave if he can't appreciate the chance we gave him

[ArtVanDelay]

Not arguing that. Manny is so much better. Davis and his 200+ Ks can leave if he can't appreciate the chance we gave him

lol wut.

[Redskins Rick]

Trout had the slightly better year but generally speaking the player on a playoff team gets the benefit of the doubt.

Players having great incrediable years on bad teams, often get overlooked. The writers believe if the player was really a MVP, the team would preform better.

I think some of that logic is pure horse hockey.

You penalize the guy by what the rest of his teammates are not doing.