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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Monday, May 23, 2022Most Meritorious Player: 1899 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 1899, 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 1 June 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 31 May 2022. |
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1. DL from MN Posted: May 23, 2022 at 05:02 PM (#6078171)1) John McGraw - a combination of the 2nd best bat, great glove and scarcity at 3B makes him a runaway choice
2) Ed Delahanty - best bat
3) Jimmy Williams - rookie season is clearly his best
4) Vic Willis - best pitcher
5) Chick Stahl
6) Jesse Tannehill - better bat puts him ahead of Young
7) Cy Young - becomes the pitcher who has received a vote in the most seasons
8) Jesse Burkett
9) Noodles Hahn
10) Honus Wagner
11-15) Bobby Wallace, George Davis, Joe Kelley, Grant Johnson, Jay Hughes
16-20) Willie Keeler, Napoleon Lajoie, Tom Daly, Frank Grant, Bill Dahlen
1) John McGraw
2) Ed Delahanty
3) Vic Willis
4) Jimmy Williams
5) Cy Young
6) Jesse Burkett
7) Chick Stahl
8) Noodles Hahn
9) Honus Wagner
10) Joe McGinnity
11-16) Frank Kitson, Kid Nichols, Jesse Tannehill, Fred Tenney, Bobby Wallace, Roy Thomas
1 - John McGraw
2 - Vic Willis
3 - Ed Delahanty
4 - Noodles Hahn
5 - Chick Stahl
6 - Jimmy Williams
7 - Jay Hughes
8 - Fred Tenney
9 - Jesse Burkett
10 - Bobby Wallace
1) Vic Willis: Best player and pitcher, but not by a lot regarding the
former.
2) Ed Delahanty: Best position player and left fielder.
3) John McGraw: Best third baseman.
4) Joe McGinnity
5) Jay Hughes
6) Cy Young
7) Jimmy Williams
8) Frank Kitson
0) Kid Nichols: Seriously slacking this year. ;-)
10) Chick Stahl: Best right fielder.
Excuse the interruption, gentlemen, from a long-time-ago HoM voter. I don’t know where ELSE to post this idea, so it seemed *here* was a reasonable place.
I have a proposal to begin a voting project that would have at least some similarities to the HoM.
- - - Ranking the 50 best MLB single-season performances - - -
I propose a Survivor*-like exercise, where first the 50 best single seasons are determined, and after that a (bi-?) weekly culling is made whereby some are excluded, until the list shrinks to {something like} 45, 40, 36, 33, 30, 27, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 9, 8, 7… 1.
Each (1 or 2) weeks, a discussion thread would ensue, at by the end, each person would vote for x player-seasons to be kicked out of the group. The player(s) with the most votes get booted, and the rest go back in for a clean vote to begin the next cycle. Ultimately we get a countdown to the Best Season Ever.
MLB only. Post-season credit is voter’s is in play, for voter’s discretion. Ditto for league strength. You think PEDs=cheaters, fine, vote Bonds 200x off, but others may disagree.
Clones allowed; we could have up to 5 Ruth years for all I know.
The Starting 50 might be one big beginning exercise where we each nominate 50 seasons, and the most votes get in the hopper. Or we could start with 60 and take the first week to cut 10 off to have a more prudently chosen 50.
Thoughts on methods, on implementation, and on best thread to discuss?
Tom Hanrahan
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