What the MVP Vote Reveals

What the MVP voting in Major League Baseball consistently reveals about how value is understood

The Reveal

The MLB MVP voting -- the annual election by the Baseball Writers Association of America that identifies the most valuable player in each league -- is the accountability journalism of how the baseball writers who cover the sport understand the concept of value in the specific context of baseball.

The Tension

The tension in MVP voting: the traditional view that the MVP should be a player from a playoff team whose value is demonstrated by the team winning; and the analytical view that the MVP should be the player whose specific statistical contribution was largest regardless of team success. The tension has produced the specific split votes, the specific controversial selections, and the specific retrospective reassessments that the evolution of how baseball value is measured has generated.

On Deck Coverage

The On Deck News covers the MVP vote because the accountability journalism of the sport requires examining the specific awards that define how the baseball writers understand the game, and because the gap between the traditional and analytical understanding of value is the specific intellectual disagreement that the voting makes visible.

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