Clay's Blog: Lee for MVP!

[dannymac910]

The way Josh Hamilton is playing, I REALLY doubt it.

[knicks0929]

There's certainly very good players in the AL, but it's not hard to see that the NL clearly has a better crop of position players this year. I'm not saying that Cliff Lee is going to end up actually amassing the most value of any player in the AL, just saying that he has a shot.

For what it's worth, currently, he's third in the AL in VORP with 48.7, behind Ian Kinsler (51.3) and teammate Grady Sizemore (48.8). Alex Rodriguez is next at 45.8.

Which, considering those players' defensive contributions, makes Lee vastly less valuable than each of the other three.

[HoustonGM]

Which, considering those players' defensive contributions, makes Lee vastly less valuable than each of the other three.

Kinsler's been pretty poor defensively. Sizemore's been good. Taking defense into account, I'd rank them Sizemore-Lee-Kinsler, but I wouldn't give Sizemore a VAST lead.