Pick 'em: Cabrera's Triple Crown or Angels rookie Trout? AL MVP race sparks hot debate

Miguel Cabrera has his Triple Crown. MVP award, maybe not.

Hold on, now. How could that be?

Mike Trout, that's how.

It's the hottest debate in baseball, seemingly pitting old-school traditionalists against new-age number crunchers in a bench-clearing shouting match over what constitutes "valuable."

At stake is the American League's Most Valuable Player award, perhaps the game's top individual prize.