PHILLIES NEWS

The Phils have brought in a lot of hardware this offseason, but today they got the big prize as Jimmy Rollins was named NL MVP by a slim margin over Matt Holiday of the Colorado Rockies. Rollins wins largely on the strength of becoming just the 4th player in major league history to have 20 homers, 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 stolen bases in the same season(Curtis Granderson, Frank "wildfire" Shultze, and the Say Hey kid, Willie Mays were the others). Rollins becomes just the 5th Phillies player to be named NL mvp, after Ryan Howard, Mike Schmidt(3 times), Jim Konstanty, and Chuck Klein. Also JRoll, and Howard are the 1st teammates to be named MVP in back to back seasons, since the San Francisco Giants Barry Bonds and Jeff Kent in 2000-2001. In all, this off season Rollins has been awarded with a silver slugger award, a gold glove award, and now the NL MVP. It seems the only thing missing is that world series ring. We'll have to fix that.