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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Thursday, October 03, 2019Most Meritorious Player: 1920 ResultsCongratulations to Babe Ruth, our unanimous pick for 1920 Most Meritorious Player! Player Name pts ballots 1sts Babe Ruth 90 6 6 Rogers Hornsby 76 6 0 Pete Alexander 73 6 0 Tris Speaker 65 6 0 George Sisler 63 5 0 Eddie Collins 51 6 0 Stan Coveleski 39 5 0 Joe Jackson 34 4 0 Jim Bagby 31 4 0 Oscar Charleston 30 3 0 Cristobal Torriente 23 2 0 Ross Youngs 22 3 0 Burleigh Grimes 12 1 0 John Henry Lloyd 8 1 0 Sam Rice 7 1 0 Dave Bancroft 6 1 0 |
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1. DL from MN Posted: October 03, 2019 at 01:20 PM (#5885938)Tris Speaker 12
John H Lloyd 12
Eddie Collins 9
Pete Alexander 7
Joe Jackson 7
Cristobal Torriente 7
Babe Ruth 5
Rogers Hornsby 5
Stan Coveleski 4
George Sisler 3
Oscar Charleston 3
Pete Alexander picks up his 4th pitching MMP to go with the three straight he won from 1915 to '17. Ol' Pete joins Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson, Roger Clemens and Greg Maddux as pitchers with 4 or more pitching MMPs while moving ahead of three-time recipients Ed Walsh, Robin Roberts, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson and Pedro Martinez.
Stan Coveleski is the AL's pitching MMP. Coveleski joins a respectable list of Indians who have won the award: Bob Feller ('40), Early Wynn ('51, '54, '56), Sam McDowell ('65, '70), Gaylord Perry ('72, '74), CC Sabathia ('07), Cliff Lee ('08) and Corey Kluber ('14, '17).
Rogers Hornsby is named NL MMP for the first time. Rajah is the first position player to win this award since Honus Wagner in 1912- marking an unofficial end to the deadball era. Hornsby was previously named the NL's position player MMP in 1917 and '19.
Oscar Charleston is the Negro League MMP. Similar to Hornsby, Charleston is the first position player to win this award since John Henry Lloyd in 1915.
(Take a moment to think about that in terms of the position he was playing. Where does the inability to go back on a fly ball hurt you LESS than at 2B? Catcher, 1B and 3B have to go back on a lot of fly balls, many of them fouls, but still fly balls. An outfielder who can't go back has to play very deep, which will result in his being moved out of the outfield. That leaves SS and 2B. Since most hitters are righties, many more popups are hit over SS than over 2B. Hornsby played 2B for most of his career because his defensive problem was less of a hindrance there than anywhere else.)
After 1923, he will have two more years, just as good if not better than 21 and 22. Then something happens - no one seems to know what - and he had a lousy season (for Rogers Hornsby), although he, in his first full season as manager, will lead the team to its first pennant and World Championship. He will be traded to the Giants in 1927, where he will pick right back up as if 1926 had never happened. He then gets traded to the Boston Braves in 1928, where he is just as good as ever, although the team was lousy. The Braves then trade him to the Cubs, where he has his last monster season. This was the year where Gabby Hartnett missed almost the whole season, and the World Series, or the 1929 Cubs might have been the best team ever. In 1930, Hartnett is back, but Hornsby falls apart and never recovers, or THAT might have been the best team ever.
It's going to be fun to see how all that stacks up against everyone else, including the AL guys, especially Ruth.
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