MLB Bullets Is The MVP (Most Valuable Post)

Let's go straight to the bullets.

• As you probably heard, Andrew McCutchen and Miguel Cabrera won the MVP awards. They're planning to celebrate by playing "Call of Duty" against each other.
• Jayson Stark thinks the right two players won the awards.
• As does Anthony Castrovince.
• Jon Paul Morosi doesn't comment on McCutchen, but he voted for Cabrera. He has the same justification that Trout was the better player but Cabrera played for a winner.
• Arizona Republic writer Nick Piecoro voted for Andrew McCutchen over Paul Goldschmidt, so he felt he had to explain his vote to his readers.
• Do you want to know who thought Clayton Kershaw wasn't the best pitcher in the NL last season? It's this guy. He voted for Adam Wainwright and no, he doesn't cover the Cardinals.
• Mark Saxon goes over the pros and cons of signing Clayton Kershaw to a long-term extension.
• Murray Chass goes off on his usual rant against the kids on his lawn, making his usual cocktail of entitlement, self-righteous indignation and cluelessness. This time it's against those who won't vote for Jack Morris for the Hall of Fame.
• If Chass really wants Morris in the Hall of Fame, maybe he should try what Deadspin is doing. They want to buy a Hall of Fame vote. Will Leitch approves.
• Al already noted that MLB approved expanded replay and he noted the problems with the proposal they went with. Jay Jaffe collects opinions around the web on the system and also criticizes the system as proposed. However, he does note that MLB does say that the current proposal is not the permanent proposal and that MLB will look to make changes if problems arise.
• Christina Kahrl thinks home teams will have an unfair advantage under the current proposal.
• One rule change that hasn't been announced yet is changes designed to end home plate collisions. Gwen Knapp says that when they do, it will be the end of a long crusade for Giants manager Bruce Bochy.
• Baseball doesn't have new rules on posting players from the Asian leagues. Ken Davidoff has the details of how the agreement fell apart. Essentially, it's the Yankees against the Pirates and Masahiro Tanaka may end up staying in Japan.
• And the Yankees won't sign Brian Wilson because he refuses to shave off his beard. So I guess he's going to Boston.
• Agent Scott Boras criticized the lack of spending on free agents by the Mets, Cubs and Astros. Jesse Rogers dismisses Boras' argument as being just self-serving nonsense. Of course it is. That's his job.
• Peter Abraham has a profile of Boras and his large influence on the game today. Especially on the Red Sox, where he represents Jacoby Ellsbury and Stephen Drew, as well as Jackie Bradley and Xander Bogaerts, who would take their jobs in Boston should Ellsbury and Drew leave.
• And Drew will not return to Boston.
• Do you want to know what an agent does all day? Not a super-agent like Boras, but one who represents the little guys? Joshua Kusnick gives the details of what he does to Baseball Prospectus.
• The Mariners are interested in Matt Kemp. If not him, then Dexter Fowler or Nelson Cruz.
• The Orioles may trade Matt Wieters. Ken Rosenthal thinks they should.
• The Dodgers are not planning to make a big free agent signing this offseason.
• Maybe because this year's free agent class is weak, Chris Cwik says get used to it. Fewer and fewer quality players are reaching free agency.
• Tom Verducci tries to find value in some of the lower-profile pitchers on the market.
  
• The Marlins may trade a starting pitcher. No, not Jose Fernandez. Anyone else.
• Mike Bates wonders what the Indians will do for an encore. He also makes a lot of comparisons of the 2013 Indians to the fictional ones in the film Major League. He notes that Major League II was a disappointment.
• Troy Tulowitzki gave $1 million to the baseball program at his alma mater Long Beach State. Once a dirtbag, always a dirtbag.
• Angels GM Jerry DiPoto and manager Mike Scioscia are communicating much better with each other, and that's why both of them still have their jobs.
• MLB was supposed to interview Alex Rodriguez today, but he's sick.
• For now, baseball is not interested in returning to Montreal.
• Steve Rushin looks at the back of old baseball cards from the 1960s and '70s to discover the odd offseason jobs of players back then. That Bill Melton was nuts.
• LaTroy Hawkins is going to Brazil. No, not permanently. It's part of an MLB outreach program to reach kids around the world. This is something really great. I hope Hawkins gets his wish to go teach baseball in Uganda one day.
• Finally, we give Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria a lot of grief, not the least because he's a total jerkwad. But even jerkwads can be heroes some days and that what Loria was as he arranged for Jose Fernandez's grandmother to come from Cuba to visit. He had not seen her since he left Cuba at age 15. So we are removing the title of "jerkwad" from Jeffrey Loria until he does something to earn it back. Let's see how long that takes.