Reyes wins batting title

In a feature article by The Washington Post, the story analyzes Jose Reyes becoming the first player in the New York Mets' half-century history to win a National League batting title, edging Milwaukee's Ryan Braun by five percentage points in a controversial finish Wednesday. The story describes the struggle and endurance Reyes needed to pursue a batting title, that is to finish the Major League Baseball season with the highest batting average. The feature is a profile but it is geared more as a trend/issue, due to the controversy of how Reyes won the title. The article is sympathetic to Reyes, who let his manager take him out of the game after one at bat, to preserve his advantage of his average against Ryan Braun's. The author claims that Reyes earned the batting title, throughout the entire 128 game season, and just because he was pulled in one game, which just so happened to be the last, is irrelevant. The story makes me feel skeptical, because Braun had more at bats than Reyes and was on a more competitive team the entirety of the season. Reyes, was on a sub-500 Mets team, and was out for a large portion of the season with injuries. This story will be more feature worthy in the next couple of days as well, seeing as that Reyes was just awarded the title as of last night. After perusing multiple sites I found a poll at BaseballNation connected with another article analyzing the story. The poll question, "Do you think any less of Jose Reyes for exiting Wednesday's game after just one at-bat to protect his batting average?" had a suprising %41 percent 'yes' answer of the three options.