NDF 2003-04 Winter Fun - 1928 Award Winners - NL

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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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Odd year in the NL, with 6 teams over .500, and two terrible teams in the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies.

Win Shares leaders, players; Paul Waner (Pittsburgh) 34, Rogers Hornsby (Boston) 33, Freddy Lindstrom (New York) 32, Jim Bottomley (St. Louis) 30, Hack Wilson (Chicago) 28, Gabby Hartnett (Chicago) and Lloyd Waner (Pittsburgh) 26, Del Bissonette (Brooklyn) and Chick Hafey (St. Louis) 25.

WS leaders, pitchers; Dazzy Vance (Brooklyn) 32, Larry Benton (New York) and Burleigh Grimes (Pittsburgh) 30, Sheriff Blake (Chicago) and Bill Sherdel (St. Louis) 24, Pat Malone (Chicago) 23, Eppa Rixey (Cincinnati) 22.

WARP3: P. Waner 9.3, Hornsby 10.3, Lindstrom 9.3, Bottomley 7.0, Wilson 7.6, Hartnett 7.1, L. Waner 5.1, Bissonette 6.7 (rookie), Hafey 6.8. Vance 12.2, Benton 9.2, Grimes 9.4, Blake 7.2, Sherdel 7.1, Malone 6.1 (rookie), Rixey 7.0.

Actual MVP voting:

Place  Name  Team  Points
1 Jim Bottomley     STL      76                    
  2 Freddie Lindstrom NYG       70                 
  3 Burleigh Grimes   PIT     53     
  4 Larry Benton      NYG     37   
  4 Hughie Critz      CIN      37            
  6 Pie Traynor       PIT      28                 
  7 Hack Wilson       CHC      21         
  8 Shanty Hogan      NYG      17             
  9 Travis Jackson    NYG      16              
 10 Rabbit Maranville STL      14          
 11 Dazzy Vance       BRO      13  
 12 Chick Hafey       STL      11             
 13 Rogers Hornsby    BSN       10                  
 14 Gabby Hartnett    CHC        6          
 15 Taylor Douthit    STL      5            
 15 Lance Richbourg   BSN        5              
 15 Paul Waner        PIT       5               
 18 Del Bissonette    BRO        3            
 18 Jake Flowers      BRO       3            
 18 Pinky Whitney     PHI       3             
 18 Jimmie Wilson     TOT      3                  
 22 Hod Ford          CIN        2              
 23 Fresco Thompson   PHI     1 

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Best player: Rogers Hornsby. The choice: Hornsby, excellent with a horrible club; Bottomley, the league RBI leader for the pennant winners; or Waner, best all-around for a team that failed to repeat their pennant. I'll go with the guy who led in OPS by a mile.

Best pitcher: Dazzy Vance, in a year that might have been better than 1924's 28-win season. His ERA+ was 191, compared to 171 in 1924. Led league in ERA and strikeouts, 3rd in wins with 22.

Best rookie: Del Bissonette, a 28-year old rookie in his only good major league year.

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Best Hitter: Rogers Hornsby
Hornsby's OPS+ was almost 40 points higher than the next player.

Best Pitcher: Dazzy Vance
Hard to beat Dazzy's 22-10 191 ERA+ season. Vance had a very strange career to say the least.