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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Most Meritorious Player: 2015 Results

Congratulations to Bryce Harper on his first MMP award!

Player Name	pts	ballots	1sts
Bryce Harper	103	7	6
Mike Trout	94	7	0
Zack Greinke	83	7	1
Josh Donaldson	81	7	0
Jake Arrieta	78	7	0
P Goldschmidt	74	7	0
Joey Votto	51	7	0
Clayton Kershaw	48	6	0
Manny Machado	37	6	0
Buster Posey	35	6	0
Dallas Keuchel	34	6	0
Lorenzo Cain	22	5	0
AJ Pollock	18	5	0
Anthony Rizzo	16	4	0
Max Scherzer	13	3	0
Nelson Cruz	13	3	0
David Price	8	1	0
Chris Davis	6	1	0
Kevin Kiermaier	5	2	0
Matt Carpenter	5	1	0
Jose Bautista	4	1	0
Wade Davis	3	1	0
An McCutchen	3	1	0
Miguel Cabrera	2	1	0
Ed Encarnacion	2	1	0
Yoenis Cespedes	1	1	0
Kris Bryant	1	1	0

DL from MN Posted: January 13, 2016 at 04:10 PM | 7 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. DL from MN Posted: January 13, 2016 at 04:17 PM (#5133385)

Player #times on ballot
Trout 4
Kershaw 4
McCutchen 4
Cabrera 4
Posey 4

Donaldson 3
Votto 3

2. Qufini Posted: January 13, 2016 at 04:56 PM (#5133453)

Congratulations to Bryce Harper! Harper joins Ty Cobb (1909), Frank Robinson ('66), Reggie Jackson ('69) and Jose Canseco ('88) as MMP right fielders. Harper is also the first National to win the MMP, although Gary Carter won the NL only award for the Expos in 1982.

3. Qufini Posted: January 13, 2016 at 04:59 PM (#5133461)

Congratulations to Mike Trout! Trout has been named the top player in the AL for the fourth consecutive year. Mickey Mantle is the only player with a longer American League streak with five ('55-'59), though Honus Wagner has the best league-specific mark with 6 NL MMPs from 1904-'09.

4. Qufini Posted: January 13, 2016 at 05:01 PM (#5133464)

Congratulations to Zack Greinke! Greinke is the pitching MMP for 2015, beating out Jake Arrieta by a mere 5 points. This is the third consecutive victory for the Dodgers following Kershaw's back-to-back wins in 2013 and '14. Don Drysdale ('60), Sandy Koufax ('63, '65, '66), Fernando Valenzuela ('81) and Orel Hershiser ('88) have also won the Dodger franchise.

5. Qufini Posted: January 13, 2016 at 05:03 PM (#5133472)

Congratulations to Dallas Keuchel! Keuchel is the AL pitching MMP for 2015 and the only AL pitcher named on more than one ballot. Keuchel is the first Astro to win the AL award though JR Richard ('79) and Mike Scott ('86) were victorious when Houston was in the NL.

6. Qufini Posted: January 13, 2016 at 05:05 PM (#5133476)

Finally, congratulations to Wade Davis! For a relief pitcher, it's an honor just to be nominated and Davis has now been named on an MMP ballot for a second consecutive year. He joins an illustrious list of relief pitchers with votes in two different years: Stu Miller, Mike Marshall (3), Goose Gossage, Bruce Sutter and Dan Quisenberry.

7. DL from MN Posted: January 15, 2016 at 09:56 AM (#5134837)

The MVP voters didn't do a bad job this year, though I have a feeling looking back on this decade we'll feel about Mike Trout the way we feel now about Mickey Mantle's MVP results in the 1950s and Mays in the 1960s. That comparison to Frank Robinson 1966 for Bryce Harper 2015 could be prescient.

I like Greinke over Arrieta but we get to factor in postseason and they don't.

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