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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Friday, March 25, 2022Most Meritorious Player: 1897 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 1897, 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 6 April 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 5 April 2022. |
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1. bjhanke Posted: March 28, 2022 at 12:40 AM (#6069374)1897 is an interesting year. Keeping track of Win Shares, as I've been doing, allowed me to see that the drift ("trend" is a badly overworked word right now) of the game's top players was in the direction of smaller deviations between the top guys and the mass. In 1897, I could only find 6 players with 30 or more WS. That's the least I've found, and it's just the result of a drift in that direction that had been going on for years. But we will never have a chance to see how that drift would have turned out, because 1897 is also the last year of the 132-game schedule. The schedule had been 154 games in 1892, but in 1893, along with changing the playing field conditions for pitchers, the Powers that Were dropped the schedule down to 132 games. 1897 here is the last year of the 132 games; in 1898, the schedule will revert to 154 games. In 1900, it will drop down to 140 games, and then there is the American League, which changes everything.
OK, I'll shut up. Here's the list:
1. Kid Nichols (41 Win Shares)
2. Ted Breitenstein (34)
3. Wee Willie Keeler (32)
4. George Davis (31)
5. Amos Rusie (34)
6. Fred Clarke (30)
7. Hughie Jennings (29)
8. Sliding Billy Hamilton (28)
9. Cy Young (28)
10. Jimmy Collins (26)
1) Hughie Jennings - good glove, very low SS replacement value
2) Willie Keeler - best hitter
3) George Davis
4) Jimmy Collins - great glove
5) Kid Nichols - bulk innings are not compiling a lot of value in Dan R's WAR
6) Fred Clarke - 2nd best bat
7) Amos Rusie - only two pitchers really stand out this season in PWAA
8) Napoleon Lajoie - best first baseman
9) Joe Kelley
10) Ed Delahanty
11-15) Jesse Burkett, Bobby Wallace, Frank Grant, Cupid Childs, Billy Hamilton
16-20) John McGraw, Ted Breitenstein, Hugh Duffy, Kip Selbach, Bill Dahlen
1) Kid Nichols
2) Hughie Jennings
3) Willie Keeler
4) George Davis
5) Fred Clarke
6) Cy Young
7) Amos Rusie
8) Ed Delahanty
9) Ted Breitenstein
10) Jimmy Collins
11-15) Joe Kelley, Billy Hamilton, Nap Lajoie, Clark Griffith, Jesse Burkett
1 - Kid Nichols
2 - Hughie Jennings
3 - Willie Keeler
4 - Amos Rusie
5 - George Davis
6 - Fred Clarke
7 - Jimmy Collins
8 - Ted Breitenstein
9 - Billy Hamilton
10 - Nap Lajoie
Childs, Delahanty, McGraw, Burkett, Corbett would be my next five...
1) Kid Nichols: Best ML player and pitcher - nobody really close to him, IMO.
2) Ted Breitenstein
3) Amos Rusie
4) Cy Young
5) Willie Keeler: Best positional player and right fielder.
6) George Davis: Best ML shortstop.
7) Hughie Jennings
8) Win Mercer
9) Fred Clarke: Best ML left fielder.
10) Billy Hamilton: Best ML center fielder.
Final ballot-some small credit for playing for a pennant contender
1 Kid Nichols
2 Wee Willie Keeler
3 George Davis
4 Hughie Jennings
5 Amos Rusie
6 Fred Clarke
7 Napoleon Lajoie
8 Ed Delahanty
9 Jimmy Collins
10Joe Kelley
Number in parentheses is rate-based salary estimator, in millions of dollars
1. Kid Nichols (29.86)
2. Hughie Jennings (26.43) - MMPosition Player
3. George Davis (22.12)
4. Amos Rusie (21.09)
5. Willie Keeler (20.29)
6. Fred Clarke (18.07)
7. Ted Breitenstein (16.85)
8. Jimmy Collins (14.65)
9. Nap Lajoie (13.82)
10. Ed Delahanty (12.32)
11-15. Cupid Childs, Joe Kelley, Cy Young, Billy Hamilton, John McGraw.
1897 mWAR All-Star team:
c - Deacon McGuire
1b - Nap Lajoie
2b - Cupid Childs
ss - Hughie Jennings
3b - Jimmy Collins
lf - Fred Clarke
cf - Billy Hamilton
rf - Willie Keeler
sp - Kid Nichols
sp - Amos Rusie
sp - Ted Breitenstein
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