Over the past few days every beat writer in America has come out with their midseason report on the team they cover. They're usually fun, light reads that give a quick recap of the first half of the season. A team MVP is always named and it's usually nothing to get annoyed over, unless the selection, and the reasoning behind the selection, are preposterous.
Roger Mooney of the Tampa Tribune, a perfectly fine reporter who has never given me a reason to write about him before, published his midseason report today. In it he anoints Brad Boxberger as MVP of the Rays' first half.