This is Ken Rosenthal of foxsports.com. Well there wasn't much drop. Joe Mauer you unanimous choice as American League MVP. First place votes on 27 up 28 ballots including mine. You have a vote in this race and really the only difficult part was deciding to through ten. Number one was rather easy. There's one interesting parallel to another race that recently cited another awards race that the end up -- out. If you call several voters including myself a bit of a vote not one as well. -- penalize Chris Carpenter because he missed some time. And certainly -- trying to draw a distinction between him and the become an Adam Wainwright that hurt him. Well now that the entire first month that he didn't put his performance this year was so extraordinary. That

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