In a year when Nick Adenhart wrecked any chance Ron Gardenhire might have had to win BEST MANAGER OF THE YEAR my MVP of the last several years got shafted yet again.

Nick Punto. Yeah he’s the man. Listen I know a Twin is supposed to win every year but I’m tired of the wrong Twinkie taking home the trophy. I know what they are trying to do- resurrect the whole M&M boys thing but honestly I don’t know if either Mauer or Morneau  could come close or anywhere near drinking Mickey Mantle under the table. Or Maris...And as far as whoring around town, well Minneapolis just doesn’t come close to New York City as far as providing motive and opportunity. Anyway back to my boy Punto. Yeah I know he only played in 125 games, but man were they a special one and a quarter. You might say wait a minute he only hit .228 but c’mon any idiot who read Moneyball knows BA doesn’t matter. Nick’s OBP started with a .3 -- thats all you need to know. I have invented a new metric. it’s called DSLG. what you do is take somebody, Nick Punto for example, and you double his slugging %.  You get a whopping .568 !! 

This metric is far more accurate than his actual SLG of .284 because it shows what might have been. Punto is a really tough guy; he once got hit by a pitch this season! Not only is he tough, but he’s modest. He rarely talked about his single home run this year in interviews.

Ok so much for the tangibles. they are boring anyway--how about that unquantifiable anti-UZR xbOBA Bap7zip etc stuff. You know, the IN-tangibles that over-rated short stops ( I don’t want to name names here ) have. Well Nick Punto has tons of those too- I once saw him levitate sideways to throw out Matsui who was making a mad dash down the first base line. I don’t think any other guy could have gotten Godzilla out. His leadership qualities alone can turn double plays…

He also saved Christmas. Well I don’t want to exaggerate, he helped save Christmas one year.

Ok Just Kidding. Congrats to The Amazing Man from Minn- Joe Mauer!

EDIT--Here are my pictures from Game Two of the ALDS