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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Friday, October 26, 2018Most Meritorious Player: 1948 BallotFor 1948 each voter should rank the top 10 players from all leagues combined. Balloting is scheduled to close at 4pm EDT on 7 November 2018. 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 6 Nov 2018. For detailed rules see one of our previous ballots. |
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1. DL from MN Posted: October 26, 2018 at 11:36 AM (#5775712)1) Lou Boudreau - Closest decision ever for me at the top of the ballot. Terrific bat for a SS. Postseason was enough to move Boudreau to the top of the list despite a noticeably weaker American League.
2) Stan Musial - best bat by a lot
3) Harry Brecheen - best pitcher
4) Ted Williams - second best bat
5) Johnny Sain - strong postseason moves him up the list
6) Hal Newhouser - best AL pitcher
7) Bob Elliott - good postseason and a bit of a down year in general for third basemen
8) Johnny Mize
9) Ralph Kiner
10) Joe DiMaggio
11-15) Bob Lemon, Ken Keltner, Andy Pafko, Gene Bearden, Dutch Leonard
16-20) Ray Scarborough, Luke Easter, Jackie Robinson, Minnie Minoso, Bobby Doerr
1. Stan Musial, RF/CF, St. Louis Cardinals: huge year with 200 OPS+, 192 RC and +5 fielding while spending 40% of his games in CF
2. Lou Boudreau, SS, Cleveland Indians: best player in the AL this year thanks to 165 OPS+ and +20 fielding
3. Ted Williams, LF, Boston Red Sox: so accustomed to Teddy Ballgame dominating baseball that a third place vote seems like a disappointment
4. Joe DiMaggio, CF, New York Yankees: 3rd in AL OPS+ with 163, 2nd in RC with 138
5. Johnny Sain, P, Boston Braves: 149 ERA+ in MLB leading 314 IP
6. Harry Brecheen, P, St. Louis Cardinals: "The Cat" led the NL with 182 ERA+
7. Ken Keltner, 3B, Cleveland Indians: 146 OPS+ and +12 fielding at the hot corner
8. Bob Lemon, P, Cleveland Indians: best pitcher in the AL with 144 ERA+ in 293 IP
9. Joe Gordon, 2B, Cleveland Indians: is this one of the best infields of all-time? Gordon put up a 135 OPS+ and +16 fielding to join Boudreau and Keltner on the ballot
10. Gene Bearden, P, Cleveland Indians: beats out Johnny Mize for the last ballot spot on the strength of AL-leading 168 ERA+ and a pretty impressive .256/.295/.356 slash line for a 75 OPS+
11. Johnny Mize, 1B, New York Giants
12. Hal Newhouser, P, Detroit Tigers
13. Tommy Henrich, RF, New York Yankees
14. Andy Pafko, 3B, Chicago Cubs
15. Jim Gilliam, 2B, Baltimore Elite Giants
16. Bob Elliott, 3B, Boston Braves
17. Sid Gordon, 3B/LF, New York Giants
18. Dutch Leonard, P, Philadelphia Phillies
19. Bobby Doerr, 2B, Boston Red Sox
20. Johnny Schmitz, P, Chicago Cubs
1. Lou Boudreau 11.84 WARR
2. Stan Musial 10.52 WARR
3. Johnny Sain 8.75 WARR
4. Ted Williams 8.69 WARR
5. Harry Brecheen 8.52 WARR
6. Ken Keltner 7.96 WARR
7. Joe Gordon 6.95 WARR
8. Richie Ashburn 6.28 WARR
9. Joe DiMaggio 6.14 WARR
10. Ralph Kiner 6.10 WARR
rest of the top 15
11. Tommy Heinrich
12. Johnny Mize
13. Vern Stephens
14. Johnny Vander Meer
15. Larry Doby
Best AL pitcher: Hal Newhouser
1. Ted Williams 70.07 runs
2. Stan Musial 68.37 runs
3. Lou Boudreau 50.82 runs
4. Johnny Mize 45.83 runs
5. Joe DiMaggio 45.41 runs
6. Ken Keltner 37.75 runs
7. Bob Elliott 36.79 runs
8. Harry Brecheen 35.86 runs
9. Tommy Henrich 34.03 runs
10. Ralph Kiner 32.49 runs
11. Jeff Heath 29.98 runs
12. Joe Gordon 29.56 runs
13. Andy Pafko 28.81 runs
14. Bobby Doerr 27.30 runs
15. Bob Lemon 27.18 runs
16. Sid Gordon 26.75 runs
17. Pat Mullin 26.61 runs
18. Bill Nicholson 25.93 runs
19. Enos Slaughter 25.73 runs
1) Stan Musial: Best ML player and right fielder/outfielder by quite a bit.
2) Ted Williams: Best AL player and ML left fielder by a comfortable amount.
3) Lou Boudreau: Best ML shortstop.
4) Joe DiMaggio: Best ML center fielder.
5) Harry Brecheen: Best ML pitcher.
6) Johnny Mize: Best ML first baseman.
7) Luke Easter: Best NeL player.
8) Johnny Sain: Best pitcher who became a fine pitching coach.
9) Tommy Henrich: Best AL right fielder.
10) Bob Lemon: Best AL pitcher.
1) Stan Musial (31.82)
2) Lou Boudreau (31.24) - AL MMP
3) Harry Brecheen (22.44) - MMPitcher
4) Ted Williams (19.27)
5) Luke Easter (18.93) - NeL MMP
6) Johnny Sain (16.11)
7) Bob Elliot (14.251)
8) Joe Gordon (14.247)
9) Johnny Mize (13.50)
10) Joe DiMaggio (13.12)
11-15) Ken Keltner, Don Newcombe, Hal Newhouser (AL MMPitcher), Bob Lemon, Marv Williams.
Anyway, here's my ballot, for those of you who are not so disgusted with me over Boudreau that you are willing to read it:
1. Stan Musial
2. Lou Boudreau
3. Ted Williams
4. Joe DiMaggio
5. Johnny Mize
6. Harry Brecheen
7. Johnny Sain
8. Hal Newhouser
9. Ralph Kiner
10. Bob Elliott (No, I didn't give him, or anyone else, postseason credit. If you want to see postseason credit, look up Eddie Collins and Lou Brock)
DL, Brock's comment about ranking Boudreau ahead of Musial caused me to revisit my AL calculations. As usual Brock was correct. I had mis-typed the formula for RAA on my AL hitters spreadsheet resulting in changes (and in some cases major changes) in my numbers.
Please ignore my previous 1948 ballot and use the following:
1. Stan Musial 10.52 WARR
2. Lou Boudreau 10.19 WARR
3. Ted Williams 9.13 WARR
4. Johnny Sain 8.75 WARR
5. Harry Brecheen 8.52 WARR
6. Ken Keltner 7.00 WARR
7. Richie Ashburn 6.28 WARR
8. Ralph Kiner 6.10 WARR
9. Joe DiMaggio 6.05 WARR
10. Tommy Heinrich 5.98 WARR
rest of the top 15
11. Johnny Mize
12. Johnny VanderMeer
13. Enos Slaughter
14. Joe Gordon
15. Hal Newhouser
1. Musial--edges Lou for MMP
2. Boudreau--top AL player, decent gap between #2 & 3
3. Ted Williams--more significant gap between #3 & 4
4. Joe Dimaggio
5. Brecheen--top pitcher
6. Sain
7. Elliott
8. Joe Gordon
9. Mize
10.Newhouser --top AL pitcher, edges Kiner for final spot
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