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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Wednesday, July 18, 2012Most Meritorious Player: 1974 resultsCongratulations to Mike Schmidt, the Hall of Merit’s choice as Most Meritorious Player for 1974. It was an all-National League affair as Schmidt and Joe Morgan fought a tight battle through all the balloting, with Johnny Bench snapping at their heels throughout. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts Schmidt 6 6 2 200 Morgan 5 5 1 3 194 Bench 3 2 5 1 1 2 179 Wynn 2 2 3 1 1 1 1 3 125 G Perry 1 2 3 2 2 1 117 Niekro 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 117 Carew 1 1 4 1 1 2 1 1 107 Grich 1 1 3 2 1 1 2 81 Jenkins 1 1 3 3 3 75 Tiant 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 74 Matlack 2 2 1 43 Reggie! 2 2 42 Hunter 1 1 1 3 41 Blyleven 1 1 1 1 1 36 Marshall 1 2 1 29 Darrell Evans 1 1 1 25 Stargell 1 2 21 Messersmith 1 1 1 15 Kaat 1 1 13 Concepcion 1 1 13 Burroughs 1 1 11 Russell 1 10 Harrah 1 9 Cedeno 1 6 Garvey 1 5 Ryan 1 4 Simmons 1 4 Total ballots: 14 Gaylord Perry earns the accolade of the Most Meritorious AL Player and Pitcher, as well as a tie for the Most Meritorious Pitcher with Phil Niekro. Rod Carew was the highest-ranked AL non-pitcher. |
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1. DL from MN Posted: July 19, 2012 at 01:59 PM (#4187120)Mike Schmidt (6 of 14) had the lowest percentage of first place votes for an MMP since Reggie Jackson beat out Rico Petrocelli, Willie McCovey and Bob Gibson in 1969. It's the second-lowest percentage to date.
Gaylord Perry was the first AL pitcher to win (or co-win) the pitching MMP since Dean Chance in 1964. It's also the first tie since 1961 when Drysdale, Ford and Spahn received one vote each.
This also marks the fourth year in a row that a pitcher was considered the MMP of the American League following Vida Blue, Perry and Bert Blyleven.
Mike Schmidt is the 1st third baseman to win the overall MMP, but the second to win the award for the NL following Ron Santo in 1967 (who finished 2nd to Carl Yastrzemski that year).
We jumble up the pitchers more than MVP voters and we're voting both leagues in one ballot. 10th in his league is fair.
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