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Winning matters, but are you arguing that Cameron Maybin was a more valuable player last year than Trout was? He was on a winning team, at least for the end of the season, after all.
Again, if the player's on-field values are similar, I'd take the guy who played a part on a winning team any day. But when a guy's number are head and shoulders above everyone else, then the top guy is still the MVP for me.
The interesting case is this year in the NL. I'm still not sure if Stanton (or Votto) were truly far enough ahead of a half dozen other guys like Goldschmidt, Blackmon, Rendon, etc... to deserve it as they were not on winning teams. Were I voting I wouldn't know how to cast my ballot.
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