If you didn't see this coming, I'll let you borrow my glasses (that sounded a lot more creative in my head and now just seems dumb). Joe Mauer won AL MVP in a landslide today, receiving 27 out of a possible 28 1st-place votes. Mauer, beat out teammates and World Series Champs, Mark Texieria and Derek Jeter, in that respective order. His numbers this season were staggering, .365 BA (winning yet another batting title, #3) only 65 strikeouts with over 600 plate appearances, oh and he had a career best 28 HR and 96 RBI. Not to mention he piggybacked the Twins to the playoffs, stealing the AL Central from the White Sox by batting .378 after Morneau's season was cut short with a back injury. Pretty sure this guy is going to start turning water into wine and dating supermodels, wait he already does.
FYI: The only other player to receive a 1st-place vote was Miguel Cabrera, whatever this writer was smoking I want some. Unless it's PCP, I already kicked that habit.
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