With the final days of the MLB season coming to an end there seems to be a major scramble to find alternate candidates to replace the many Dominicans who are threatening American players with running away with the major awards.
For instance, baseball writers are looking for the most minimal thing to take away the Cy Young award from Pedro Martinez and give it to an inferior Barry Zito. Zito is an excellent pitcher and has done an excellent job this year, but he is not in Martinez's league. At least not yet. Just review the stats, and Zito is nowhere near. In fact, Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, in a different league are not in Martinez's league themselves. Martinez is ahead of the twin-Arizona terrors in almost every power category, and if one considers the fact that Pedro faces designated hitters and not pitchers, the obvious result would have been Pedro exceeding Johnson in strikeouts with over 300. Johnson has faced in his 34 games at least 120 opportunities to face hapless automatic strikeout victims like pitchers and pinch-hitters.
Kansas City will try to do everything in its power to figure out a way to tumble Manny Ramirez from the batting championship. All kinds of shennanigans are possible. The American League MVP is now a subject of intrigue. They're trying to find an alternative to Miguel Tejada and Soriano and their candidate is Alex Rodriguez. Since they cannot find white-blooded Americans they want to use J-rod because he was born in the US. But J-Rod is as Dominican as it gets. He even claims to be a pure bred Dominican and will play for our national team in the Olympics.
They have already tried to frustrate Sammy Sosa so that people like Lance Berkman and Shawn Green can catch up, to no avail. Sammy, as bad as he is doing this year just won't let them. He will win the HR crown and is an almost shoo-in to run away with the runs score title in addition. Berkman and Green are not in Sammy's league. Only Barry Bonds' inflated and steroid body has a chance, but he will have a hard time catching Sammy.
Of course, with Dominicans dominating every facet of offense, power and hitting, who can blame Americans for trying to hijack the awards?
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For instance, baseball writers are looking for the most minimal thing to take away the Cy Young award from Pedro Martinez and give it to an inferior Barry Zito. Zito is an excellent pitcher and has done an excellent job this year, but he is not in Martinez's league. At least not yet. Just review the stats, and Zito is nowhere near. In fact, Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, in a different league are not in Martinez's league themselves. Martinez is ahead of the twin-Arizona terrors in almost every power category, and if one considers the fact that Pedro faces designated hitters and not pitchers, the obvious result would have been Pedro exceeding Johnson in strikeouts with over 300. Johnson has faced in his 34 games at least 120 opportunities to face hapless automatic strikeout victims like pitchers and pinch-hitters.
Kansas City will try to do everything in its power to figure out a way to tumble Manny Ramirez from the batting championship. All kinds of shennanigans are possible. The American League MVP is now a subject of intrigue. They're trying to find an alternative to Miguel Tejada and Soriano and their candidate is Alex Rodriguez. Since they cannot find white-blooded Americans they want to use J-rod because he was born in the US. But J-Rod is as Dominican as it gets. He even claims to be a pure bred Dominican and will play for our national team in the Olympics.
They have already tried to frustrate Sammy Sosa so that people like Lance Berkman and Shawn Green can catch up, to no avail. Sammy, as bad as he is doing this year just won't let them. He will win the HR crown and is an almost shoo-in to run away with the runs score title in addition. Berkman and Green are not in Sammy's league. Only Barry Bonds' inflated and steroid body has a chance, but he will have a hard time catching Sammy.
Of course, with Dominicans dominating every facet of offense, power and hitting, who can blame Americans for trying to hijack the awards?
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