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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Wednesday, February 23, 2022Most Meritorious Player: 1896 BallotHere are the specific rules for this election: Candidate Eligibility: Any North American professional baseball player is eligible for the Most Meritorious Player (MMP) award including players on independent teams. Voters should consider the player’s on-field contribution to Major League Baseball (MLB) team(s) in that season only. If part of the season was spent outside MLB, that value may be considered as well. However, the player’s on-field contribution should be judged in relation to the highest level major league, not relative to a minor league. A season may include playoff or World Series games but does not include spring training or exhibition games. No credit will be given for games not played due to injury, wartime service or contract holdouts. Ballot Length: For 1896, each voter should rank 10 players. Voter eligibility: All voters who did not vote in the previous year’s election must post a preliminary ballot in the ballot discussion thread. All voters must fill out a complete ballot. Voters must briefly explain their ballot choices. One person, one vote; anyone determined to have voted with multiple accounts will be banned and their votes will be disallowed. The MMP ballot committee has authority to exclude any ballot that does not meet these requirements. Scoring: Points will be given in descending order with the highest-ranked player receiving 15 points, the second highest 14 points, and so on until the last player on the ballot receives 1 point. The player with the highest point total will be named the Most Meritorious Player. In case of a tie, the tiebreaker will be number of first place votes. If the tiebreaker does not determine a winner the players will share the title of Most Meritorious Player. Balloting will close at 4pm EST on 2 March 2022. Anyone can vote, even if you do not normally participate in Hall of Merit discussions. If you have never participated in an MMP election, just post a preliminary ballot in the discussion thread by 1 March 2022. |
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1. DL from MN Posted: February 23, 2022 at 01:12 PM (#6065953)1) Hughie Jennings - great fielding season
2) Bill Dahlen - SS replacement level is very low, half a win more than 2B at the same production. That's most of the difference between Dahlen and Childs.
3) Cupid Childs
4) Ed Delahanty - best bat
5) Joe Kelley - next best bat
6) Jesse Burkett - good fielding LF beats out the lesser fielding 3B Joyce
7) Bill Joyce
8) Willie Keeler
9) Elmer Smith
10) George Cuppy - best PWAA and a little better hitter gives him the nod over Young
11-15) Mike Tiernan, Cy Young, Billy Hamilton, Frank Grant, Bill Lange, Pink Hawley
Dan R's WAR is translating innings at a much lower rate than BBREF. Frank Grant is most likely the best black player. In lieu of a yearly MLE I am just using the average production he would have been expected to have as a Hall of Merit caliber player during the peak of his career. That kind of smoothing out is not going to help him on these lists.
1) Cy Young
2) Hughie Jennings
3) Ed Delahanty
4) Joe Kelley
5) Bill Dahlen
6) George Cuppy
7) Frank Killen
8) Cupid Childs
9) Bill Joyce
10) Billy Hamilton
11-15) Elmer Smith, Clark Griffith, Bill Hoffer, Kid Nichols, Frank Dwyer
1 - Cy Young, best pitching performance by a hair over number three
2 - Hughie Jennings, in the middle of a remarkable run of MMP caliber seasons
3 - George Cuppy, the gap between these three and number four is greater than numbers four through fourteen
4 - Joe Kelley
5 - Cupid Childs
6 - Bill Dahlen
7 - Ed Delahanty
8 - Bill Hoffer
9 - Bill Joyce
10 - Willie Keeler
I feel comfortable with this ranking, even though I admit I tinkered with it each day for the last week. Most of the bottom seven players stand shoulder to shoulder, if you will, as do some of the next players...
The best of the rest in order would be Frank Killen, Billy Hamilton, Kid Nichols, Mike Tiernan, Elmer Smith, Frank Dwyer, Jesse Burkett, Pink Hawley, George Davis, & Bill Lange
1. Hughie Jennings-just edges Ed
2. Ed Delahanty
3. Cy Young
4. George Cuppy-decent size gap from top 4 to the remainder of top 10
5. Joe Kelley
6. Bill Dahlen-Kelley & Dahlen were close
7. Billy Hamilton
8. Mike Smith-Hamilton slides in just ahead of Elmer
9. Jesse Burkett
10.Frank Killen-just beats out Kid Nichols for the final spot
1) Cy Young: Best ML player and pitcher.
2) George Cuppy: Very close to the Cyclone.
3) Frank Dwyer
4) Kid Nichols
5) Hughie Jennings: Best ML positional player and shortstop.
6) Frank Killen
7) Ed Delahanty: Best left fielder.
8) Clark Griffith
9) Bill Hoffer
10) Billy Hamilton: Best center fielder.
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