NL MVP?

We can at least consider A-rod a legitimate and somewhat obvious MVP, but Jimmy Rollins?

My first question is what is it truly meant to be an MVP? Value to his team? Well let's compare the offensive stats of the best players on the Phillies.

Hits,HR, SB, BA, OBP, SLG, RC/27
Utley 176 22 9 .332 .390 .566 8.74
Howard 142 47 1 .268 .392 .584 8.01
Burrell 121 30 0 .256 .401 .502 7.00
Rollins 212 30 41 .296 .341 .531 6.88

Hmmmm, the numbers look decent except for RC/27 but its obvious he had more Plate Appearances than Anyone else, so lets look at how removing each member will affect his team.

RC%
Team 17%
Utley 12%
Howard 12%
Burrell 14%
Rollins 14%

Hmmm, losing any of the 4 of them has about the same effect. Well how about defense then?

Range Factor, Lg Rf
Utley 5.01 4.23
Howard 9.24 7.14
Burrell 1.33 1.55
Rollins 4.36 4.00

Well so what does this mean? There is not a lot of variation in the bell curve for these numbers. All I can say is that even though Rollins won a Gold Glove, his offense didn't keep up as much as the others on his team. I'll also point out David Wright won a gold glove and was more productive than anyone on the Phillies (RC/27=8.96)

I can't agree at all with this pick by the voters. Honestly I would have picked Chipper Jones, his Rc/27 is 9.73 which is about twice the league average despite his defense being a little lacking. Matt Holliday (9.09) or David Wright would be great picks as well.