(Ed. note: Mark McKinniss submitted a short piece to the Baseball Prospectus staff in the wake of the BBWAA awards. If you have something you’d like to have published here, send it in the body of an e-mail to info@baseballprospecus.com. We regret we cannot respond to all submissions, but we will read every one.) He…
NEW HARDWARE "It hasn’t sunk in yet. I don’t have trophies up in the house. I don’t keep pictures of myself. I don’t brag about my accomplishments. This is something that is a fantasy." — Jeff Kent, Giants infielder, on winning the NL MVP "I wanted to thank [Mark McGwire] first before anybody else because…