The Hardball Times released the latest Win Share data today, so we’ve got some updated Sabermetric MVP rankings. Lance Berkman widened his lead a bit over Albert Pujols, though it’s still, as the pollsters might say, “a statistical dead heat”:

#	Player	Tm	Pos	WSAB	WPA	MVP
1	Berkman	HOU	1B	23	6.10	13.77
2	Pujols	STL	1B	18	5.24	11.24
3	Lincecum	SF	SP	18	4.58	10.58
4	Lee	HOU	OF	14	4.84	9.51
5	Webb	ARI	SP	16	3.65	8.98
6	Holliday	COL	OF	10	5.29	8.62
7	Ramirez	FLA	SS	15	3.44	8.44
8	Burrell	PHI	OF	10	4.54	7.87
9	McLouth	PIT	OF	14	2.91	7.58
10	Wright	NYN	3B	12	3.37	7.37
11	Bay	PIT	OF	10	3.88	7.21
12	Braun	MIL	OF	12	3.02	7.02
13	Santana	NYN	SP	11	3.09	6.76
14	Dempster	CHN	SP	11	3.08	6.75
15	Lidge	PHI	RP	6	4.74	6.74
16	Haren	ARI	SP	13	2.39	6.72
17	Jones	ATL	3B	11	2.92	6.59
18	Beltran	NYN	OF	13	2.22	6.55
19	Volquez	CIN	SP	12	2.30	6.30
20	Ramirez	CHN	3B	10	2.85	6.18

The top four spots remained unchanged, while Brandon Webb, Hanley Ramirez and last year’s Sabermetric MVP, David Wright, all jumped up in the rankings. The other local favorite, Ryan Ludwick, has fallen out of the top 20 with a rating of 5.92, despite some good press — most recently from Jeff Passan.

Speaking of Passan, he profiled AL MVP would-be Carlos Quentin this week. It’s about time we got around to the junior circuit, so here’s a look at Quentin, et al:

Wow, who would’ve thought Cliff Lee for the MVP (well, besides this guy, who deserves some credit)? There’s a lot of Lee haters out there, and the AL race is still wide open (possibly nine candidates), but it’d be fun to see Lee do it. At the very least, we’ll be spared any September arguments touting Alex Rodriguez (5.01 rating) for MVP.

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