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Hall of Merit — A Look at Baseball's All-Time Best Monday, October 24, 2016Most Meritorious Player: 1998 BallotFor 1998 each voter should rank the top 15 players from all leagues combined. Balloting is scheduled to close at 4pm EDT on 2 November 2016. 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 1 November 2016. For detailed rules see one of our previous ballots. |
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1. DL from MN Posted: October 24, 2016 at 03:52 PM (#5333024)1) Kevin Brown - best pitcher, decent postseason run bumps him ahead of McGwire
2) Mark McGwire - hard to top 70 HR for a position player
3) Alex Rodriguez - good glove year
4) Greg Maddux - Postseason bonus
5) Mike Piazza
6) Tom Glavine - Postseason bonus
7) Roger Clemens
8) Barry Bonds - I could see any of the top eight getting first place votes
9) Scott Rolen - outstanding fielder
10) Jason Kendall - good year for catchers
11) Chipper Jones - small postseason considerations
11) Greg Vaughn - fielding 1.5 wins better than Sosa, small postseason bump
13) John Olerud - outstanding fielder
14) Derek Jeter - small postseason bump
15) Ivan Rodriguez - outstanding fielder
16-20) Barry Larkin, Nomar Garciaparra, Albert Belle, Pedro Martinez, Ken Griffey Jr
21-26) Curt Schilling, Craig Biggio, Scott Brosius, Kenny Rogers, Al Leiter, Bernie Williams
2. Kevin Brown: 7 CGs, 3 shutouts on the season; final two months - 1.71 ERA, 4 CGs, 2 shutouts; strong LDS and LCS pitching performances, too
3. Barry Bonds: OPS+ 2nd in MLB, OBP 4th in MLB; still an above-average glove
4. John Olerud: solid glove and a .354/.447/.551 line
5. Alex Rodriguez: good bat, great glove, solid baserunning + positional bonus
6. Albert Belle: 2nd best offensive OF in MLB; makes up for weak glove
7. Roger Clemens: career high K/9IP of 10.4; final two months - 1.66 ERA, 3 CGs, 12.8 K/9IP
8. Nomar Garciaparra: 2nd best SS in baseball; strong both offensively and defensively
9. Sammy Sosa: comparable but slightly inferior to Albert Belle despite huge counting numbers
10. Chipper Jones: best 3B in MLB; massive offensive output (.313./.404/.547); 5th in WPA in all of baseball (behind only McGwire, Bonds, Olerud and Sosa)
11. Andruw Jones: among the all-time great fielding seasons for any position (no fluke, he did this for 10+ seasons); above-average bat
12. Greg Maddux: led MLB in ERA+, again; 9 CGs and 5 shutouts
13. Vlad Guerrero: great offense (.324/.371/.589) and solid defense
14. Randy Johnson: 329 K most since Nolan Ryan in 1977; huge down the stretch for Houston going 10-1 with a 1.28 ERA, 12.3 K/9IP, 4 CGs, 4 shutouts
15. Scott Rolen: solid offense and excellent defense at 3B
1. Barry Bonds 8.88 WARR
2. Mark McGwire 8.06 WARR
3. Sammy Sosa 7.3 WARR
4. Greg Maddux 7.25 WARR
5. John Olerud 7.19 WARR
6. Tom Glavine 7.10 WARR
7. Kevin Brown 7.07 WARR
8. Al Leiter 7.05 WARR
9. Mike Piazza 6.97 WARR
10. Roger Clemens 6.97 WARR
11 Ken Griffey 6.92 WARR
12. Scott Brosius 6.58 WARR
13. Albert Belle 6.51 WARR
14. jeff Bagwell 6.09 WARR
15. Pedro Martinez 6.06 WARR
Rest of the top 20
Matt Lawton
Andruw Jones
Derek Jeter
Kenny Rogers
Alex Rodriguez
1. Mark McGwire 78.31 runs
2. Greg Vaughn 50.04 runs
3. Albert Belle 45.51 runs
4. Greg Maddux 43.09 runs
5. John Olerud 41.71 runs
6. Barry Bonds 40.11 runs
7. Roger Clemens 39.20 runs
8. Jeff Bagwell 38.44 runs
9. Gary Shefield 37.81 runs
10. Mo Vaughn 37.59 runs
11. Edgar Martinez 37.08 runs
12. Andres Galarraga 35.54 runs
13. Bernie Williams 35.06 runs
14. Moises Alou 34.46 runs
15. Rafael Palmeiro 34.29 runs
1. Mark McGwire
2. Sammy Sosa
3. Barry Larkin
4. Barry Bonds
5. Albert Belle
6. Mike Piazza
7. Craig Biggio
8. Mo Vaughn
9. Ivan Rodriguez
10. Alex Rodriguez
11. Ken Griffey, Jr.
12. John Olerud
13. Nomar Garciaparra
14. Roger Clemens
15. Tom Glavine
1) Mark McGwire: Easily the best ML player and first baseman.
2) Craig Biggio: Best ML second baseman.
3) Barry Bonds: Best ML left fielder.
4) Mike Piazza: Best ML catcher.
5) Albert Belle: Best AL left fielder.
6) John Olerud
7) Sammy Sosa: Best ML right fielder - unlike Big Mac's season, though mighty fine, it really wasn't a historic season.
8) Alex Rodriguez: Best ML shortstop.
9) Ivan Rodriguez: Best AL catcher.
10) Ken Griffey: Best ML center fielder.
11) Andruw Jones: Best NL center fielder.
12) Jason Kendall
13) Moises Alou
14) Roger Clemens: Best ML pitcher.
15) Greg Maddux: Best NL pitcher.
adjustments) says for 1998. Frankly, I find the balance strange,
and don't like the top. Be that as it may:
1. Albert Belle. Positional adjustments help him compared to McGwire- lots of
all-star type 1B in the majors in 1998, not so many LF.
2. Mike Piazza
3. Ivan Rodriguez
4. Greg Maddux
5. Roger Clemens
6. Mark McGwire
7. Kevin Brown
8. Pedro Martinez
9. Alex Rodriguez
10. Tom Glavine
11. Barry Bonds
12. Kenny Rogers
13. Sammy Sosa
14. Scott Brosius. Strange lack of MMPs from the 114-win Yankees.
15. Craig Biggio
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This season was about the HR chase & honestly I may have valued that narrative a little too much but the top 15 were very close
1. McGwire- it was awesome (at the time ) that he broke the record but great season was good enough to be MMP regardless
2. Bonds- sadly it's alleged that the HR chase made his hat size start growing a few sizes...
3. A Rodriguez- him and Bonds were best overall players
4. Sosa - the other half of the narrative was Sosa chasing Mac and spurring the Cubs to their first postseason since 89, at the time I was all for Sosa being MVP over Mac due to leading Cubs to WC as Mac's co-star
5. Belle-professional hitter
6. Brown-he was so ugly to watch pitch but he was great
7. Griffey -wait wasn't Griff supposed to break the HR record?
8. Clemens-overcame poor start
9. Jeter-top player for ensemble 114 win NY team
10.Maddux-two rotation mates close for Atlanta's ensemble cast
11.Glavine-just behind MadDog
12.Biggio
13.Pedro Martinez-gave up a lot of HR in the first year at Fenway in AL
14.Olerud -not a tree hugging hippie
15.Piazza-just over Chipper for last spot
1. Mark McGwire
2. Kevin Brown - MMPitcher
3. Barry Bonds
4. Greg Maddux
5. Roger Clemens - AL MMP
6. John Olerud
7. Albert Belle - AL MMPosition Player
8. Alex Rodriguez
9. Tom Glavine
10. Sammy Sosa
11. Andtuw Jones
12. Scott Rolen
13. Mike Piazza
14. Greg Vaughn
15. Pedro Martinez
16-20. Craig Biggio, Curt Schilling, Nomar Garciaparra, Ken Griffey Jr., Chipper Jones.
1. Kevin Brown
2. Greg Maddux
3. Roger Clemens
4. Mark McGwire
5. Tom Glavine
6. Andruw Jones
7. Pedro Martinez
8. Barry Bonds
9. Randy Johnson
10. Albert Belle
11. Sammy Sosa
12. Kenny Rogers
13. Jamie Moyer
14. John Olerud
15. Craig Biggio
1. Mark McGwire
2. Barry Bonds
3. Albert Belle
4. John Olerud
5. Sammy Sosa
6. ARod
7. Mike Piazza
8. Chipper Jones
9. Scott Rolen
10. Craig Biggio
11. Al Leiter
12. Andruw Jones
13. Greg Vaughn
14. Roger Clemens
15. Ivan Rodriguez
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