Oh yes, this particular debate has winged its way over the pond to the good ole UK. Now I don't get to see as much baseball as you chaps out there, but it seems to this onlooker from afar that the following rules apply:
The New York Yankees are the biggest team in baseball.
The player who sucks the least is the best player on the biggest team in baseball.
That player should be the League MVP.
I'm with the Fire Joe Morgan site on this one. Jeter's numbers (according to them, so don't shoot me people) are broadly comparable with Kevin Youkilis's numbers. Now not that I can compare a mutil-World Champion on a team with a pitching staff to dream of, and a batting line-up loaded with pressure performers (that's the late 90s boys and girls) to our budding 1st base star, but to say he's the season MVP when the Tigers, the White Sox, hell, even the Red Sox are blazing away.
What is clutch anyway? I've read this thread through and through and probably am still none the wiser.....
Pip Pip all!