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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Thursday, September 10, 2015Most Meritorious Player: 1908 ResultsCongratulations to Honus Wagner on being unanimously named the 1908 Most Meritorious Player. This is the 4th consecutive MMP award for Honus Wagner which is a record. Player Name pts ballots 1sts Honus Wagner 135 9 9 Chr Mathewson 117 9 0 Ed Walsh 117 9 0 John H Lloyd 84 7 0 Addie Joss 75 7 0 Napoleon Lajoie 73 8 0 Cy Young 67 7 0 Tyrus Cobb 62 7 0 Geo McQuillan 58 7 0 Mordecai Brown 51 6 0 Joe Tinker 30 4 0 Roger Bresnahan 27 3 0 Matty McIntyre 14 2 0 Sam Crawford 14 2 0 Mike Donlin 12 2 0 Doc Gessler 9 1 0 |
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1. DL from MN Posted: September 10, 2015 at 10:10 AM (#5035548)# times on ballot
8 - Wagner
7 - Lajoie, Cy Young
6 - Crawford, Mathewson
3 - Mordecai Brown
What a stretch of dominance! I wonder if either Babe Ruth or Barry Bonds will be able to match it. In addition, this is Wagner's 5th straight season as NL MMP (he finished behind Lajoie and Chesbro in '04) which ties Mickey Mantle ('55-'59) for the most consecutive league-specific awards. And this is Wagner's 7th straight season as the top position player in the NL (Mathewson interrupted his streak in '03).
This year joins 1974 as the only seasons so far with a tie for top pitcher. In '74, Phil Niekro and Gaylord Perry tied for 5th place. I've run tiebreakers for other seasons but those were years when the leading candidates congregated at the bottom of the ballot and off-ballot support had the potential to play a role in the leader. But there's no question about this one. Mathewson and Walsh were named on all 9 ballots and finished in a tie for second.
This is Mathewson's third pitching MMP, following 1903 and '05 (he also won the NL-specific version in 1906).
This is Walsh's second pitching MMP, as he also won in 1907. Of note, Walsh is also this year's AL MMP, the first member of the Chicago White Sox to win this award to date.
Finally, John Henry Lloyd is the top player from the Negro Leagues. Lloyd tied Rube Foster (1903) for the best finish among Negro League players with 4th. This also marks the fifth straight victory for the Philadelphia Giants.
1900 MMP vote is scheduled for December 2022. Babe Ruth should win his first MMP election in 2018.
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