ANTICRIMEDOGGUY: But he never won the MVP and he wasn't THAT great for very long.
In all fairness, McGriff was penciled in as the AL MVP in 1989 until he had a major slump in September that left a bad taste in the voters' collective mouths. After that it turned into Robin Yount winning by default over McGriff and the then-underpublicized Ruben Sierra.
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I'd have to thank Jon Heyman at SI.com for reminding me of this, but Victor Conte only got four months in prison for creating and providing the drugs, so it seems disingenuous that these writers would be looking at four-and-a-half times that amount.