Could St. Louis Cardinals’ Matt Carpenter be a legitimate MVP candidate next year? According to the Baseball Writer’s Association of America (BBWAA), there are three pieces of criteria that voters are to consider when choosing their Most Valuable Player of each league.
Those “rules” are said to have been the guiding points for the MVP selection process since the first ballots were cast… in 1931. Listed below are the rather vague descriptions of what the BBWAA considers an MVP candidate, taken from bbwaa.com.
- Actual value of a player to his team, that is, strength of offense and defense.