NDF 2003-04 Winter Fun - 1922 Award Winners - AL

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For the season referenced in the subject line of this thread, who would be your pick for Best Positional Player (Include defense and position played in your determination), Best Pitcher, Best First Year Player and any other topics of discussion from this season.

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Win Shares leaders, players: Tris Speaker (Cleveland) and Ken Williams (St. Louis) 30, Ty Cobb (Detroit), Babe Ruth (New York) and George Sisler (St. Louis) 29, Harry Heilmann (Detroit) 24, Eddie Collins (Chicago) 23, Ray Schalk (Chicago), Bobby Veach (Detroit), Wally Pipp (New York), Bing Miller and Tilly Walker (Philadelphia) 22 each.

WS leaders, pitchers: Red Faber (Chicago) 31, Urban Shocker (St. Louis) 29, Bob Shawkey (New York) and Erwin Rommel (Philadelphia) 27, Joe Bush (New York) 26, Stan Coveleski and George Uhle (Cleveland), Herman Pillette (Detroit), and Elam Vangilder (St. Louis) 22 each.

WARP3: Speaker 8.9, Williams 9.3, Cobb 9.0, Ruth 8.8, Sisler 8.4, Heilmann 6.5, Collins 6.1, Schalk 7.6, Veach 8.7, Pipp 6.1, Miller 7.2, Walker 5.5. Faber 10.2, Shocker 8.9, Shawkey 7.2, Rommel 9.0, Bush 6.9, Coveleski 7.5, Uhle 7.7, Pillette 8.4, Vangilder 7.2.

Actual award voting, MVP:

Place  Name Team  Points
 1 George Sisler     SLB       59              
  2 Eddie Rommel      PHA       31   
  3 Ray Schalk        CHW     26                
  4 Joe Bush          NYY      19     
  5 Eddie Collins     CHW     18             
  6 Johnny Bassler    DET     13             
  6 Steve O'Neill     CLE       13               
  8 Joe Judge         WSH    12                   
  8 Wally Pipp        NYY    12             
 10 Lu Blue           DET       11            
 11 Chick Galloway    PHA     10                   
 12 Harry Heilmann    DET      8              
 13 Del Pratt         BOS     7             
 13 Wally Schang      NYY      7               
 15 Bob Meusel        NYY     6              
 15 Everett Scott     NYY      6             
 17 Walter Johnson    WSH       5     
 17 Urban Shocker     SLB       5    
 19 Charlie Jamieson  CLE        4    
 19 Joe Sewell        CLE      4            
 21 George Burns      BOS     2           
 21 Jimmie Dykes      PHA       2            
 21 Bucky Harris      WSH       2          
 21 Roger Peckinpaugh WSH       2                    
 21 Bill Wambsganss   CLE      2                    
 26 George Cutshaw    DET     1                
 26 Cy Perkins        PHA       1 

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Best player: Ken Williams, the HR and RBI leader. The voters went for average leader Sisler, who hit .420, but I think Williams had the better year for the Browns who finished but 1 game behind the Yankees. Babe Ruth missing much of the season with injuries and suspensions made this a wide open race, and Ruth, Williams, Cobb, Speaker, or Sisler would be a reasonable pick here. Oddly, neither Ruth nor Williams drew a vote. I don't believe voters (one from each city) were allowed to vote for more than one player per team.

Best pitcher: Red Faber, again. Led league in ERA, 2nd in strikeouts, 5th in wins. Either Rommel or Bush would have won in real life, due to more impressive win totals. Faber was boosting up a still-depleted White Sox team.

Best rookie: Joe Hauser, a .323 hitter for the A's, with Vangilder in his only good year close behind. Hauser is better known as a minor league slugger.

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Best Hitter: Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker
I'll go with the veterans who are adjusting to the live ball era very nicely. Cobb hit .401 and Speaker had an OBP of .474. Ruth is derailed due to off the field problems. George Sisler was just one notch below these guys.

Best Pitcher: Red Faber
One of the few Sox to survive the scandal Faber had another good year. led the league in ERA+ and innings while going 21-17 for the mediocre White Sox.