[net.sport.baseball] NL MVP

jhr2@houem.UUCP (11/09/83)

Any comments on Dale Murphy's selection as NL MVP?
I would have chosen Mike Schmidt or Andre Dawson
ahead of him, and quite possibly Dickie Thon.

                             Josh Rosenbluth  ...houxm!houem!jhr2

hstrop@mhuxt.UUCP (trop) (11/10/83)

I think Dale Murphy's selection is pretty easily justified. He had 
extremely impressive stats and pretty much carried Atlanta after
Horner was injured. Actually, looking back on the season, Atlanta
was in first place in the West, Horner gets hurt, and next thing
you know, Atlanta can't seem to win a game. Maybe Horner deserved
to be NL MVP.

				Harvey S. Trop
				mhuxt!hstrop

bradley@princeton.UUCP (11/10/83)

Murphy was the obvious choice, I believe, if you subscribe to the
notion that the MVP is the player with the most RUNS CREATED, i.e.
runs + rbi's - hr's (I'm omitting pitchers who didn't figure
in the MVP running in the NL this year).  If I remember the
final stats right, Murphy was way ahead by this measure.  In the
AL it should be Ripken or Cooper.