Kendry Morales & Historical Angels MVP Votes
by mattwelch on Nov 23, 2009 9:59 PM PST
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PrintAs noted earlier today, congrats to Kendry Morales for joining a select group of six other players in Angels HISTORY to finish in the top 5 in MVP balloting. Also kudos to Chone Figgins for becoming just the third player in Angels history to garner MVP votes in at least 4 different seasons (along with Vlad's 5 and Jim Fregosi's 8).
Do you feel like looking at a (hopefully complete) list of Angels appearing in the MVP vote? Here goes, with the parentheses for those who came to the dance on multiple occasions:
- Don Baylor '79, Vladimir Guerrero '04
- no 2nd place votes
- Doug DeCinces '82, Vlad (2) '05, Vlad (3) '07
- Leon Wagner '62, Garret Anderson '02
- Dean Chance '64, Kendry Morales '09
- Reggie Jackson '82, Donnie Moore '85, Vlad (4) '06, Francisco Rodriguez '08
- Jim Fregosi '67, Baylor (2) '78, Tim Salmon '95, Salmon (2) '97
- Alex Johnson '70, Bobby Grich '79, Wally Joyner '86, Darin Erstad '00
- no 9th place votes
- Chone Figgins '09
- Lee Thomas '62, DeCinces (2) '86, David Eckstein '02
- Fregosi (2) '70, Mike Witt '86, Bobby Abreu '09
- Billy Moran '62, Fregosi (3) '64, Joyner (2) '87, Bert Blyleven '89
- Albie Pearson '63, Nolan Ryan '74, Brian Downing '79, Grich (2) '81, Downing (2) '82, Jim Edmonds '95, Salmon (3) '98, Erstad (2) '98, Anderson (2) '03, Vlad (5) '08
- Fregosi (4) '68, Frank Robinson '73, Frank Tanana '76, Troy Percival '02, Orlando Cabrera '07
- Bobby Bonds '77, Bob Boone '82
- Ryan (2) '73, Figgins (2) '05, John Lackey '07
- Bobby Knoop '66, Downing (3) '84
- Wagner (2) '63, Mark Clear '79, Gary DiSarcina '95
- Fregosi (5) '69, Figgins (3) '07, Teixeira '08
- Tom Morgan '61, Fregosi (6) '65, Rick Reichardt '66, Jack Sanford '66, Don Mincher '67, Clyde Wright '70, Anderson (3) '01
- Dick Schofield '86, Chili Davis '94
- Fregosi (7) '63, Lyman Bostock '78, Baylor (3) '82, Bartolo Colon '05
- Thomas (2) '61, Knoop (2) '65, Minnie Rojas '67, Ryan (3) '77, Figgins (4) '04
- Dave LaRoche '78, Juan Beniquez '84, Davis (2) '89
- Buck Rodgers '62, Ken McMullen '72, Dan Ford '79, Rod Carew '82
- no 27th place votes
- Fregosi (8) '66
- Andy Messersmith '69, Ken Tatum '69
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Congrats
to Kendry, Figgy, and Abreu!!!
Now stuck in Colorado Springs
by stuck in Romania on Nov 23, 2009 10:09 PM PST reply actions
I know!
What dummy did that?
"Figgins' OBP is still over 40!" -Steve Physioc
by Figgi4life on Nov 23, 2009 11:47 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
this dummy:
The other things he (Mauer) knows well are hitting and catching, as evidenced by his near-unanimous choice in the MVP voting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced Monday. Only one of the 28 voters (two for each AL city) did not list Mauer first on his ballot.
Seattle-based Keizo Konishi of the Japanese news agency Kyodo News voted for Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera, who finished fourth overall behind New York Yankees teammates Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter.
you know the HH typical
age bracket has got to be younger then 25 when Hunter gets more votes the Tanana as greatest angel not to get mvp votes WOW!!!!!!!
Confidence breeds success, self-doubt breeds failure
I still think of Torii as a Twin.
What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.
That left me
When he hit that Grand Slam last year.
RIP Nick Adenhart 4/9/09
I blog about the Angels at The Diamond Aces
That was fast.
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That was Glaus in 2000. Not a single MVP vote.
We are the Los Angeles Angels of the late 2000s
Bryanharvey'smoustache votes for
bryan harvey.
Do it for Nick '09
by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Nov 24, 2009 10:02 PM PST reply actions
Kind of obscure, but...
… the other day I was just looking at old Angel players stats and noticed that in 1972, Angel 3rd baseman Ken McMullen came in 26th on the MVP voting with .269/9/34 stats. He did have a decent glove, but where I was puzzled was his teammate, Nolan Ryan, who was 19-16/2.28 ERA/329 SO came in 30th on the MVP list. And it’s not because voters were leaving out pitchers. Seven pitchers were in the top 13.
I know it’s neither here nor there, but it is a hell of a head scratcher how Ken McMullen could come up higher on the MVP list than Nolan Ryan.
by Hoppity Hooper on Nov 24, 2009 10:48 PM PST reply actions
Ryan is indeed puzzling, but McMullen less so
1972 was nearly 1968esque in its Dead-Balltasticness. McMullen had a very good offensive year, weird as that sounds.
Actually, not so odd ...
Just the year before Bill Melton led the AL in homers with 33. Looking at a lot of the other hitters on that MVP list with somewhat “average” looking stats tells me that the voters went by a lot of those “intangibles” that makes a player valuable to his team that don’t always show up on a box score.
It’s nice to know Ken got a little nod in the voting that year. He was one of my favorite players at the time (behind Ryan, of course). Besides, he looked an awful lot like Jethro Bodine.
by Hoppity Hooper on Nov 25, 2009 9:23 PM PST up reply actions
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