Your question is definitely valid...lol make it a featured blog...just put "OH WAIT" after it

Ortiz...that pig has been hittin them on the small porch for years...in Minnesota he hit em off the baggy...he puts up good numbers in hitters parks.  BTW Shin Soo Choo had  aHR in other park today but since hes in Detroit it was a 416 ft. double...where you play matters...definitely agree

Hes hitting .301 with 5 jacks as a second baseman 60 games or so into the season on the road, retard.

Hardly evidence that indicates the only reason he puts up monster numbers every year are because he plays in the ballpark.

Those are all valid points, and I completely respect anyone's opinion on Utley.  However, my main beef with you is that Utley stats are better because of his home ballpark.  The ballpark has nothing to do with how well he is playing.  Maybe if you were talking about Pat Burrell I would understand, because Pat hits all of his bombs into the short porch in left.  But Chase, when he gets his home runs, are mostly to center or right (which are both relatively deep in the park).  Don't blame the player if you think he has an easy field, it's not his fault.  Blame the architect of the field if you have a problem with it.  Even if Utley is given a favorable hitting park (which by the way, I still think the whole "hitter's park" concept is a little overrated), he still has earned his stats (21 HRs, 18 doubles [11 doubles on the road], 56 RBI are not too shabby when you've only played 65 games). 

And by the way, I think Berkman and Uggla are also excellent candidates for the MVP, and they definitely would be well-deserving if they would receive the award.  I also won't say Utley's the best 2B ever, because he is still young, and only played a relatively short career thus far.  He definitely has the tools to earn that title in the future though.

And what do you mean "in spite of Utley"?  .316 may not be as high as 14 others, but it is still a great average (and he puts the ball in play almost every at bat).  And without Utley, the Phillies record (home or away) would not nearly be as good as it is now.  And comparing his averages for barely over 2 seasons, and saying he's declining?  How small of a sampling is that?  Give him another season or two, and if they're still declining, then I'll worry.

"Especially for a LH batter - that Right Field porch turns pop ups into home runs."

The short porch is in left field, so that wouldn't be a factor for a lefty hitter (unless they went opposite field on a regular basis).

You said yourself that he hits most of his homeruns to  right and right-center.  Most hitters will hit the majority of their homeruns to the power alley.  The right center field fence in CBP is 369', which is a joke for a major league ballpark to say the least.  Oh and the 'short porch' you speak of:  LF line 329'  RF line 330'.  And the deepest part of the ballpark is "the angle" which is 409' feet away, and just left of center field.  So Utley is unaffected. 

That said, that shouldn't disqualify Utley's MVP case.  I understand Renegade's contempt as his own team's players have routinely had their stats disqualified because of where they play.  But most of Utley's HR's are punished to say the least, and perhaps his happy hitting at home is just the result of comfort, or home cooking, or the level and quality of the dirt in the batter's box, or the hitter's eye, or the creature comforts of the clubhouse.  It could be anything.  The ballpark should not be a factor when deciding these things, perhaps that's the greater point our poll creator is trying to make?