USA Today: Hershey & Shandler: Is it possible to predict postseason MVPs?

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We looked at the last 20 postseasons and included the LCS and World Series, for 60 award winners in all. It is important to note that postseason play accumulates small sample sizes. Some of the following numbers were amassed in as few as four or five games — less than a week’s worth of regular-season play.

Though this is the nature of a postseason series, one needs to exercise caution in drawing definitive conclusions about player value. Any player can get hot in a handful of games, and a well-timed streak can significantly raise exposure with little historical backbone.

Certainly, Eddie Perez’s 1999 National League Championship Series MVP and Pat Borders’ 1992 World Series MVP were weak indicators of past or future success. And make no mistake — almost all of the award winners had hot streaks.