Oh October....

   October is creeping around the corner and that means one thing.... MLB Playoffs! As of right now Detroit is locked, Yankee's are locked, Rangers are four and a half up on the Angels, Boston is three and a half up on Tampa in the wild card. As for the National League, Phillies are locked up, Milwaukee's four and a half up on St. Louis, Arizona is five and a half up on the Defending World Champs, and Atlanta is about a game and a half above St. Louis and two or three and a half up on the Giants. My prediction is Tigers playing Phillies in the World Series. Who to win, undecided. First things first, who is the MVP of the National League? Alot of talk about Braun vs. Fielder, how is that possible when the true definition of an MVP is the one player that carried that team, the one player who without him the team wouldn't have done what they did. Which if that's true shouldn't the MVP be Matt Kemp? Kemp leads the NL in runs, and rbi's and is second in homeruns and stolen bases, and third in average. That is an MVP season, but he isn't being mentioned because his team is at .500 and is 12 games out of first in the west. Cy Young's need to go to Verlander, of course, and Clayton Kershaw. I'm not a dodgers' fan, but you have to give props to the players that deserve it. Kershaw is number 1 in MLB in ERA, tied for second in wins, second in K's, and third in WHIP. Now when it comes to the AL in MVP i believe that Joey Bats deserves this title with him once again leading the majors in homeruns and being the main force behind Toronto, but since they are out of the playoff picture I feel that Adrian Gonzalez deserves this title leading the majors in batting average, being fifth in the majors in runs, and tied for third in the majors in rbi's. I do have to note that the Pirates had an amazing run this year til they fell off the planet in August. One thing I never understood was, why bring back Ross Ohlendorf after his injury when his rehab starts in the double-A Altoona Curve were horrendous and he gave up double digit runs to double-A teams? Why do the Pirates have so much faith in this guy when he amounts to nothing but adding more to your loss column? Hopefully they'll be able to figure it all out and get back to greatness, in the mean time across the state the Phillies are tearing it up and show how to become a dynasty organization. Building up a farm system is key in the majors because once you have a team, and your farm system has depth you can do what the Phillies did this year at the trade deadline and trade a couple for a great middle-aged player like Hunter Pence. Pence has shown he's good in Houston but since the rest of the team was awful he really didn't get the national spotlight he deserved and he ended up carrying the team on his shoulders. On a stacked Phillies team now he can do his thing and show how great he truly is. Watch this guy for years to come because i smell greatness in the air in Philadelphia.