TOW #9: 9 sabermetric stars who got jilted by baseball's MVP voters by Jon Terbush

On thursday, Miguel Cabrera won his second MVP award in a row.  However, Mike Trout of the Anaheim Angels, put up the highest number of wins above replacement, or WAR, for the second year in a row.  According to author Jon Terbush, a credible source due to his publications in numerous newspapers and websites, this is not fair.  In Terbush’s article, “9 sabermetric stars who got jilted by baseball's MVP voters,” he gives examples of 9 baseball players who had better statistics than the people who beat them out for the MVP title.  Therefore, the purpose of the article is to show the audience, people who watch baseball and possibly voters of the MVP award, how great players have been overlooked by others and how the voting needs to improve.  Terbush accomplishes his purposes by using effective diction, satire, and an appeal to logos.  Terbush uses to great choices of words to convey his purpose.  In the title, “sabermetric” and “jilted” are used.  Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball records by using mathematics and statistics.  Since he uses the word “sabermetric” before saying stars, the readers know right away that the baseball players he is referring to were very good.  By using “jilted” after describing the players as being very good, the audience knows exactly where the article is heading.  Terbush uses a lot of satire to help get his point of voters picking the wrong men across.  He wrote about voters in terms of his Lou Gehrig example, “The voters went with the playoff-bound guy.”  Even though Gehrig was a much better player than Mickey Cochrane w, the voters chose Cochrane as MVP because his team went to the playoffs.  Terbush views this as a big mistake of the voters. Terbush uses facts to juxtapose his players to the ones that beat them out for MVP.  Using statistics and extending arguments help prove his purpose that the listed players deserved to be MVP’s and that voters need to vote based on who has better overall statistics.  

2013 MVP: Miguel Cabrera

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/11/14/cabrera-wins-al-mvp-mccutchen-takes-nl-award/