Posted by Brian Joseph on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Rounding out our predictions for today (tomorrow we will have our Postseason Predictions) is the MVP Award. To come up with our choice, we had to go to a second round of choosing to get the BDD choices.

In the American League, the first round went to Grady Sizemore and Mark Teixeira who both earned the preseason admiration of 3 predictors. While Justin Morneau was tapped by 2 writers as their selection, we asked the five who didn’t select Sizemore or Teixeira to break the tie and left Morneau out of the running. Again, it was close… with Sizemore edging out Teixeira, 3-2. The BDD support goes to Sizemore but only because we can choose just one candidate.

Like the American League, the National League had two players receive 3 votes — Albert Pujols and Manny Ramirez. Same as the AL, one player — David Wright — received 2 votes but was excluded from consideration in the second round of voting. Unlike the AL, the National League run-off between Pujols and Man-Ram wasn’t close with Pujols scoring a unanimous 5-0 win over Manny. Here’s our predictions:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Grady Sizemore, Indians — 3 (3)
Mark Teixeira, Yankees — 3 (2)
Justin Morneau, Twins — 2
Miguel Cabrera, Tigers — 1
Matt Holliday, Athletics — 1
Alex Rodriguez, Yankees — 1

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Albert Pujols, Cardinals — 3 (5)
Manny Ramirez, Dodgers — 3 (0)
David Wright, Mets — 2
Milton Bradley, Cubs — 1
Ryan Braun, Brewers — 1
Chase Utley, Phillies — 1