I'll start off with stats; Pedroia's batting AVG (.326) was 26 points higher than Morneau's (.300), but, as we saw last year with A-Rod and Ordonez, if the other stats are large enough, batting average doesn't matter as much. In 2008, Morneau drove in 129 runs, good enough for 2nd in the American league (Josh Hamilton had 130). However, Pedroia only had 83 which is 27th in the AL! That's also a difference of 46 RBI! Morneau also had 23 HR while Pedroia only had 17. And for all those people saying "but wait, the Red Sox made it to the playoffs and the Twins didn't." Well that would work except for the fact that the Twins only missed the playoffs by 1 stinking game. The discussion of playoff-team players shouldn't be included because of that. So as you can see, it should be Morneau, not Pedroia, owning the hardware and on the front of MLB '09 the Show.
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