Originally posted by DJBeasties
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Why should Steve Carlton win MVP if his team finished in the basement? His season was phenomenal, and as such he took the Cy, but very very few players have won on non-contending teams because of the definition among voters of the term "valuable."
Clemens finished 11th in '97 because his team was an also-ran --- yet Randy Myers finished 4th in both Cy Young and MVP voting.
You have to take the context of the season into play, and not just base it on stats.
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