His team collapsed monumentally down the stretch, but it wasn’t because David Wright did. Wright closed the season with a 17-game hitting streak and totalled 21 Win Shares Above Bench to leap ahead of Jake Peavy, who had been leading in our Sabermetric MVP rankings since the beginning of September, and win. Albert Pujols, who also gained two WSAB in the final two weeks of the season and bolstered his Win-Probability Added, finished a very close second:

#	Name	Tm	Pos	WSAB	WPA	MVP
1	Wright	NYN	3B	21	4.09	11.09
2	Pujols	STL	1B	19	4.65	10.98
3	Peavy	SD	SP	18	4.79	10.79
4	Cabrera	FLA	3B	18	4.61	10.61
5	Fielder	MIL	1B	15	5.24	10.24
6	Holliday	COL	OF	15	5.06	10.06
7	Utley	PHI	2B	17	3.78	9.45
8	Jones	ATL	3B	15	4.23	9.23
9	Webb	ARI	SP	17	3.35	9.02
10	Ramirez	CHN	3B	12	4.55	8.55
11	Helton	COL	1B	11	4.80	8.47
12	Gonzalez	SD	1B	13	4.07	8.40
13	Penny	LAN	SP	17	2.72	8.39
14	Bonds	SF	OF	12	4.33	8.33
15	Howard	PHI	1B	14	3.48	8.15
16	Ramirez	FLA	SS	16	2.45	7.78
17	Oswalt	HOU	SP	14	3.11	7.78
18	Saito	LAN	RP	10	4.27	7.60
19	Berkman	HOU	1B	12	3.54	7.54
20	Rollins	PHI	SS	13	3.20	7.53

Pujols turned it on after his team was eliminated from playoff consideration, but Peavy, whose Padres wound up tied for the wild card, received an extra start, and failed to pitch to his season standards and ended up costing himself our MVP award. Speaking of the wild canard, Rockies Todd Helton and Matt Holliday bumped up in the rankings after their clinching victory Monday (though Holliday still hasn’t touched home plate).

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