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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Tuesday, April 26, 2022Most Meritorious Player: 1898 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 1898, 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 4 May 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 3 May 2022. |
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1. kcgard2 Posted: April 26, 2022 at 04:50 PM (#6073845)2) Clark Griffith - close race with Nichols
3) Hughie Jennings - best position player
4) John McGraw - great combination of hitting and fielding, barely below Jennings
5) Doc McJames - pitcher heavy ballot
6) Cy Young - another showing for Young
7) Jimmy Collins - third base + defense rank just ahead of Delahanty's better hitting
8) Ed Delahanty
9) Bill Dahlen
10) Jesse Tannehill - round out with a newcomer pitcher
11-16) Dan McGann, Gene deMontreville, Billy Hamilton, Elmer Flick, Willie Keeler, Bert Cunningham
1) Hughie Jennings - 3rd season in a row at the top of my ballot
2) John McGraw - McGraw's bat tops Collins' glove
3) Jimmy Collins
4) Clark Griffith - top two pitchers are very close
5) Kid Nichols
6) Bill Dahlen
7) Billy Hamilton - best CF
8) Gene DeMontreville - very heavy on infielders this year
9) Frank Grant - using my averaged contribution for his career
10) Cy Young
11-15) Ed Delahanty, Willie Keeler, Bobby Wallace, Napoleon LaJoie, Dan McGann
16-18) Jesse Tannehill, Elmer Flick, Al Maul
1 - Kid Nichols
2 - Hughie Jennings
3 - John McGraw
4 - Clark Griffith
5 - Jimmy Collins
6 - Ed Delahanty
7 - Doc McJames
8 - Gene DeMontreville
9 - Dan McGann
10 - Bill Dahlen
Really hard to call at the bottom of the list, but I really like the top four. Number one was easy.
One fun note about 1898 that I foreshadowed lsat "year." In 1897, there were only 6 players in the game who posted up 30 or more Win Shares (in the Win Shares method, 30 WS is a nominating level for the MVP). Here in 1898, there were 12, exactly twice the 1897 number. Why? The schedule expanded. In 1897, baseball was working with a schedule length of 132 games. In 1898, that got raised to 154. In neither season did all, or even most, of the teams play the whole schedule, but the highest number of games in 1897 is in fact 132 (Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Washington played the full schedule). In 1898, the highest number of games played was 152, by Cincy and Washington. That's interesting to me because I am trying to figure out whether or not modern baseball, with 30 teams and 162 games, suppresses individual great players to the extent that they seldom turn in great years (30+ WS), or whether the schedule forces more 30+ guys because there is more opportunity. If someone here has done this research already, or knows of someone who has done it, I'd appreciate a comment here leading me to that person.
OK, enough of my obsessions. Here's the list, with the Win Shares number for the player in parentheses after the name:
1. Kid Nichols (44 WS)
2. Jimmy Collins (34)
3. Cy Young (34)
4. Jesse Tannehill (34)
5. Sliding Billy Hamilton (33)
6. Big Ed Delahanty (33)
7. Hughie Jennings (32)
8. Clark Griffith (32)
9. Ted Lewis (31)
10. John McGraw (31)
Doc McJames and Bert Cunningham each had 30 WS.
1) Kid Nichols: Best ML player and pitcher - comfortably at the top.
2) Clark Griffith
3) Billy Hamilton: Best ML center fielder.
4) Cy Young
5) Hughie Jennings: Best ML shortstop.
6) Jesse Tannehill
7) Ted Lewis
8) John McGraw: Best ML third baseman.
9) Ed Delahanty: Best ML left fielder.
10) Jimmy Collins
1. Kid Nichols
2. Clark Griffith
3. Hughie Jennings
4. Jimmy Collins
5. John McGraw
6. Ed Delahanty
7. Doc McJames
8. Dan McGann
9. Al Maul
10.Bill Dahlen
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