Take Your Pick: Who Should Win the NL Mvp?
making their third Fall Classic appearance in five years, face the National League championAtlanta Braves, who just won their first pennant since 1999.Who is going to win it all -- and how many games will it take?
McCutchen, a first-round pick by the Pirates in 2005, came up to the Majors in '09 and became the driving force behind a baseball renaissance in the Steel City. In '13, Cutch took NL MVP honors, as the Bucs won 94 games and made the postseason for the first time since Barry Bonds...
Newcombe's 27 wins led baseball, as did his 0.989 WHIP as he helped lead the Dodgers to a second straight pennant. It resulted in both the NL MVP Award and the Major League Cy Young Award, which in those days was given to just one pitcher. ...
The two-time Cy Young Award winner began his professional career right after reaching the elite mark in college. As a junior at Washington, he won the 2006 Golden Spikes Award, annually awarded to the best amateur baseball player. His success quickly transferred over to the pros. In h...
His breakthrough role came in 1952 when he played the character of Eufemio Zapata in the movie Viva Zapata! His performance earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first Mexican actor to win an Oscar. This success was not a one-off event. In 1956, he won ...
Within just two and a half years of founding MVP, we're about to produce the biggest fight in history, a fight in the biggest NFL stadium in the U.S., broadcast live, on the biggest streaming platform in the world -- a testament to all we've accomplished in such a short a...
Within just two and a half years of founding MVP, we're about to produce the biggest fight in history, a fight in the biggest NFL stadium in the U.S., broadcast live, on the biggest streaming platform in the world -- a testament to all we've accomplished in such a short amou...
–21: Ron Santo 1964, Mark McGwire 1999, Barry Bonds 2004, Tony Bernazard 1985 Don’t know if this is another take on MVP, but here’s Andy’s first list sorted by the difference in team performance when a player has a 0.10 WPA and other games. Player, Team Record when WPA >= ...
“grand slam single” in 1999 NLCS Game 5, though Ventura was about far more than that single iconic moment. His ’99 season was the best of his career, as Ventura hit .301/.379/.529 with 32 homers and 120 RBIs to finish fourth in NL MVP voting. When the Mets dealt Ventura to ...