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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Wednesday, August 07, 2013Most Meritorious Player: 1984 ResultsCal Ripken Jr. repeats to win his second MMP award. Player Name pts ballots 1sts Cal Ripken 207 14 11 Ryne Sandberg 192 14 3 Gary Carter 160 14 0 Eddie Murray 131 13 0 Alan Trammell 121 14 0 Tony Gwynn 121 13 0 Dave Stieb 103 12 0 Tim Raines 93 10 0 Mike Schmidt 73 9 0 Keith Hernandez 62 7 0 Dale Murphy 51 9 0 Bert Blyleven 49 8 0 Jose Cruz 48 9 0 Lloyd Moseby 36 5 0 R Henderson 33 4 0 Don Mattingly 31 6 0 Dwight Evans 25 3 0 Kirk Gibson 20 2 0 Buddy Bell 17 3 0 Wade Boggs 11 2 0 Alvin Davis 8 1 0 Mike Boddicker 7 1 0 W Hernandez 7 1 0 Robin Yount 6 2 0 Kent Hrbek 6 1 0 Chet Lemon 5 1 0 Doyle Alexander 4 1 0 Rick Rhoden 4 1 0 Dwight Gooden 4 1 0 Lou Whitaker 3 1 0 |
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1. DL from MN Posted: August 07, 2013 at 05:20 PM (#4515460)13 times the MMP was not an MVP (though 2x that person was CYA)
One MVP failed to make a single MMP ballot (Ken Boyer)
The CYA winner has several times failed to make an MMP ballot including Rick Sutcliffe this year.
1974 is probably the year that was most screwed up in MVP and CYA voting. The highest award winner that year (Catfish Hunter) finished 13th in MMP balloting.
Cal Ripken Jr is the first back-to-back winner since Joe Morgan ('75 and '76). Mays ('64/'65), Morgan and Ripken are the only players with consecutive MMPs to date. Cal also makes it three straight years that a shortstop has won the MMP following Yount's win in 1982 and seven out of eight years that the award has gone to someone in the American League.
Dave Stieb is another back-to-back winner, taking the overall pitching MMP for the second year in a row and the AL award for the third straight season. He's the first back-to-back winner for the overall award since Bob Gibson won three straight from '68 to '70 and for the AL award since Denny McLain in '68 and '69. Stieb joins Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Tom Seaver and Steve Carlton as multiple winners of the overall award. Stieb is also the first to win three AL pitching MMPs, breaking a tie with Sam McDowell, Denny McLain, Gaylord Perry and Jim Palmer. That goes a long way to explaining why we elected him to the Hall of Merit a few years ago.
Ryne Sandberg is the first second baseman to win the NL award since Joe Morgan in 1976 and the first Cub since Ron Santo in 1967. Sandberg also continues a tradition of NL MMP winners who are also HoMers. The only exceptions are the still active Buster Posey (2012) and the Cobra, Dave Parker (1978).
1. Bruce Sutter
2. Rick Rhoden
3. Dwight Gooden
1. Gooden
2. Rhoden
3. Sutcliffe
I have a pretty big gap between Gooden (who was just off-ballot for me) and Rhoden. And part of Sutcliffe's value was in the AL (albeit not much: he wasn't particularly good with the Indians).
1. Rhoden
2. Gooden
3. Mahler
2. Rhoden
3. Sutter
1. Rhoden (his hitting matters)
2. Gooden
3. Sutter
2- Dwight Gooden 6041 23rd
3- Rich Mahler 4960 36th
for best without any votes, I've got Dave Winfield (overall) and for pitchers I've got Frank Viola
2. Rhoden
3. Gooden
It's okay. I think we were all frustrated with the dwindling participation. It's nice to see so many new and returning voters for this season. Hopefully, we can build some momentum.
1. Gooden
2. Soto
3. DeLeon
Soto's value looks to be hidden by the park.
My highest-value players not to get a vote is a multiple-tie embracing Frank Viola, Dave Winfield, Bob Brenly and Tony Pena. I guess I could go to another decimal place to break it, but that seems a bit of false precision.
Speaking of Denny McLain, I am currently visiting my mother and brother in Michigan, who are having a bit of a clear-out. A box emerged from the attic, and inside was my autographed Denny McLain baseball. "To Paul, from Denny McLain." I had completely forgotten about it.
I also found the foul ball I got at Tiger Stadium, when the Royals were visiting once, hit to me by Gail Hopkins, a former 1b/DH type. I'd given that up for lost.
The box also included some other old items that my father saved, including an unmarked 1943 scorecard involving the Cubs and what I assume is a team drawn from men in the service — Chicago Cubs vs Camp Shanks.
Sounds like the HoM has some actual artifacts after all! That beats my find of a Tony Oliva autographed ball at the thrift store for 50 cents.
Rhoden: 4 1sts, 4 2nds
Gooden: 3 1sts, 3 2nds, 2 3rds
Sutter: 2 1sts, 3 3rds
Pena: 1 2nd
Soto: 1 2nd
Mahler: 2 3rds
DeLeon: 1 3rd
Sutcliffe: 1 3rd
That's 32-26-13 Rhoden-Gooden-Sutcliffe with a 5-3-1 point scheme, or 20-17-9 with a 3-2-1.
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