Weekend Buzz: MVPs, Cy Youngs, and the rest of the midseason accolades

The Weekend All-Star Buzz while you were instructing your postman, in this heat, to deliver the mail straight to your swimming pool. ...

1. Mid-year MVPs: Josh Hamilton of the Rangers and Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates.

The Angels' Mike Trout is closing the gap quickly, and the Yankees' Robinson Cano is right there, too ... with the Blue Jays' Jose Bautista, the Tigers' Miguel Cabrera and Paul Konerko of the White Sox and David Ortiz of the Red Sox in the conversation. So let's see where we are three months from now.

But right now, Hamilton is the guy. Even though he's gone quiet lately, there's still no looking past those numbers. He leads the AL in OPS (1.088) and RBI (75), he's tied for first with 27 homers. He powered the first-place Rangers in May, helping them pad a lead large enough to keep them in first at the All-Star break despite a recent five-game losing streak.

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