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Matt Kemp feels that Ryan Braun is an unworthy MVP in light of his recent drug suspension.
TORONTO — Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, who finished runner-up to Ryan Braun in voting for the 2011 National League Most Valuable Player award, thinks the suspended Milwaukee Brewers slugger should be stripped of the honor.
Braun finished with 388 points and 20 first-place votes, to 332 and 10 for Kemp. Major League Baseball attempted to suspend Braun following a positive test that October for elevated testosterone, but the penalty was overturned by an arbitrator who ruled Braun’s urine sample was handled improperly.
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MLB suspends Ryan Braun for the rest of the season for violating the league’s drug policy.
Braun agreed Monday to a 65-game suspension for unspecified violations of baseball’s drug rules and labor contract.
Asked Tuesday whether the award should be taken away from Braun, Kemp responded: “I mean, yeah, I do,” pausing and adding, “I feel like it should be, but that’s not for me to decide, you know?”
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Kemp said people feel “betrayed” by Braun.
