Okay, now, wins above replacement really caused a controversy in 2013,
which you probably know.
Miguel Cabrera won the Triple Crown for the first time,
I guess since Carl Yastrzemski, I might be wrong on that.
But that's 47, 46 years.
So he got the MVP because people said God, you won the Triple Crown,
you've got to be the most valuable player in the league.
But if you look at, basically, wins above replacement, and he wasn't even close.
Cabrera was not that good of a fielder.
Trout was a really good fielder in 2013,
and that accounted for a lot of the difference.
But Mike Trout's way above Cabrera on wins above replacement, so Nate Silver had
a nice piece in the New York Times and so did a lot of other people saying hey,
how could you give this MVP to Cabrera even though he won the Triple Crown?
Mike Trout should have got it.
Wins above replacement, and
I think now you can sort of understand where that comes from.
Okay. It's the whole player.
I mean it's the baserunning, it's the fielding,
it's the hitting, and then adjusting for the part that they play in.
I mean, Mike Trout was clearly a better player compared to Miguel Cabrera in 2013,
and he really should have won the MVP, and he did not.