Are you serious? There's no such thing as stat padding. What was he supposed to do in that situation? Deliberately K so nobody would call him a stat padder? That's absurd.
Just wondering, if they have a comeback player of the year, why don't they have a dropoff player of the year? A rod would that one for sure.
Anyway, I'd go with Thome although Schilling is in contention.
Clarett apparently had a lot of enemies and thats why he had all the guns and the bulletproof vest. Dunno if I buy that one or not. Sounds to me like they caught him before he robbed a bank.
Check this 1st place team out:
C- Johnny Estrada
1B- David Ortiz
2B- Bill Hall
3B- Miguel Cabrera
SS-Derek Jeter
OF-Scott Podsednik
OF-Alex Rios
OF-Matt Holliday
Util-Carlos Guillen
Util-Corey Patterson
Nice having two potential MVP's on the same team