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Originally Posted by miraja2
It just irritates me that voters pay more attention to a stat like RBI than to a stat like OPS (or at least the stats that go into OPS before the number was tracked). To me, OPS gives a much clearer indication of the kind of year a guy had offensively than a team-dependent stat like runs scored or RBI. Dawson's OPS in '87 wasn't bad....but it was hardly MVP worthy in my estimation.
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That is changing, OPS is definitely very strongly considered when people are looking at MVP's now.