Debating baseball is tough. Debating Carlos Santana this year? That’s really tough.
Santana is the kind of player that puts fans at odds with one another. Everything about his season sparks some sort of contention: His contract, his batting average, his displacing of Rhys Hoskins to the outfield. There’s friction at every turn as far as Santana is concerned.
It doesn’t have to be that way!
Every week, I feel some sort of pull to mount some defense of Carlos Santana. I won’t sit here and say he’s deserving of MVP votes, but there’s a lot to his season that often gets overlooked, and many of the arguments against him don’t consider the big picture.