Had a few things to get out of the way this week, a Seiya Suzuki story for a Japanese magazine, and a softball story for the day job, so I put off voting until today.
For each league we get to cast three votes for MVP. The winner is the player with the highest point total of their 5-point first-place votes, 3-point second-place votes and their 1-point third-place votes.
On Thursday, Brandon Laird was named the winner of the Pacific League’s Sayonara Award for September, but while Sayonara Sushi would be a heck of a nickname, Laird has been more of a detonator this week, driving in the game’s first run for three straight days in the Lotte Marines’ top-of-the-table series against the Orix Buffaloes in Osaka.
