First, Tulo is playing gold glove caliber defense at a prime position, in which he has been durable and played everyday from the beginning of the year. To me, playing the from day one is more impressive then Ryan Braun getting up to the Bigs and getting hot, he will cool down. Ah when does this guy expect Braun to cool down? Not much time left for that. Secondly, Braun's stats compare favorly to Pujols rookie year and I can't imagine anyone voting aginst him that year. All defense aside and amount of games played aside Braun has put up one of the best rookie years ever offensivly and that will be very hard to ignore. (clarified quote -TC)