I was going to do a Weekly Standing Check-in this week, but since not much has changed from last week (other than the AL East getting even tighter with 2.5 games separating 4th from 1st), I'm going to do a post about an MVP candidate not named Jose Bautista.
Adrian Gonzalez is not-so-quietly building his case for MVP. He's 3rd in the AL with a .342 average, 1st in RBI and has found his home run swing. The fact that he plays in an extremely hitter friendly park will help his cause as well. But the one uncontrollable factor that he has in his favour is that he plays in one of the biggest markets in the league. Sure technically Toronto is something like the 5th biggest market in MLB, but they don't get anywhere near the attention that Boston does. At this point in the season, it's obvious that Jose Bautista deserves the MVP, but assuming he keeps batting at this pace, Adrian Gonzalez may win based on the team he plays for. The only thing that could put Jose over the top in terms of attention would be if the Jays could make the playoffs this year.
Anyways if you were wanting to look at the standings here they are:
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