Brewers Ryan Braun NL MVP

Ryan Braun today won the NL MVP easily beating Matt Kemp.
From ESPN: Milwaukee's Ryan Braun won the NL Most Valuable Player Award on Tuesday after helping lead the Brewers to their first division title in nearly 30 years.
The left fielder received 20 of 32 first-place votes and 388 points in voting announced by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
"I'm not going to pretend like I wasn't anxious or nervous because I was," said Braun, who was sitting on the balcony of his home in Malibu, Calif., when he received the call that he had won. "I was obviously thrilled, excited. It's honestly difficult to put into words how much this means to me.
Los Angeles center fielder Matt Kemp, who came close to winning the Triple Crown, received 10 first-place votes and finished with 332 points. Braun's teammate Prince Fielder finished third with 229 points, and Arizona's Justin Upton finished fourth with 214 points. Fielder and Upton each received one first-place vote.
St. Louis' Albert Pujols finished fifth. It was the 11th straight year the three-time MVP was in the top 10 in balloting.
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It's a great win for Braun and the Brewers. But you really have to wonder about the intelligence of some of the writers by making Albert Pujols 5th in balloting after he was out over a month because of a broken arm.
So, congratulations to the Braun and the Brewers have Braun locked up in a contract until 2020, so the Brewers will have many more MVP years to come.