2007 MLB MVP and Cy Young Award Predictions

The awards are not actually announced until after the World Series, so what happens in the post season isn't supposed to matter. But as we all know the best will excel at that point and the "cream will rise to the top" when it matters most......usually.

There were very few run away winners like in years past. For example did anyone think that someone other than Roger Maris would win the AL MVP in 1961 or that Pedro Martinez wouldn't win the Cy Young in 1999? Maris broke the single season homerun record and led the Yankees to the World Series. In 1999 Martinez went 23-4 with an E.R.A. of 2.07 and struck out 313 batters. This year's awards are going to be as close as the National League Wild-Card winner was. Some of the awards came down to the very last week of the season to see who could separate themselves from the rest.

AL MVP

We are looking at basically three guys for this, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees, David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox and Magglio Ordonez of the Detroit Tigers. The first thing we generally look at is stats.

Name Avg. Runs HR RBI

Rodriguez .314 143 54 156

Ortiz .332 116 35 117

Ordonez .363 117 28 139

The stats show that Alex Rodriguez far and away leads the others. I think these stats don't tell the whole story for this award though. We also need to look at what they meant to their team (to prove their Most Valuable Player status). This is what separates Rodriguez from the others. He alone scored 14% of his team's runs, knocked in 17% of their runs and hit 54 of the Yankee's 201 homeruns.

Winner: Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees

NL MVP

Taking the same approach as the AL version we look at Matt Holliday of the Colorado Rockies, Chipper Jones of the Atlanta Braves, Jimmy Rollins from the Philadelphia Phillies and Prince Fielder from the Milwaukee Brewers. Here is the basic stat break down.

Name Avg. Runs HR RBI

Holliday .340 120 36 137

Jones .337 108 29 102

Rollins .296 139 30 94

Fielder .288 109 50 119