Through pure happenstance, I stumbled upon the realization that Kevin Mitchell once won an MVP award. This was rather jarring to me. I had known the name of Kevin Mitchell and never associated him as that type of player, and to be fair, the MVP award was not real well-deserved. Will Clark and Lonnie Smith were both easily better, which is weird because Clark was on the same team as Mitchell, so I don’t really get that. Anyway, he had a vastly more fascinating career than I expected, and I would have wrote a whole post about that career had he ever donned a Cardinal uniform.
Anatomy of a bad All-Star selection
