Since MLB has a Cy Young award for best Pitcher,why can't they have a Ted Williams Award for best hitter and then have MVP for a playoff team's player??
2006-12-08 16:36:02 · 7 answers · asked by richard w 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
They have silver slugger awards for the best hitter at each position.
2006-12-08 16:44:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Silver Slugger Award is for the best hitter at each position. They also have Player of the year award, which is supposed to be different than most valuable player award, in it is for the best player, not most valuable to a team, which in my opinion is why an MVP should not go to a player like A-Rod in 2003 when he was on a last place team.
2006-12-09 00:31:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They already have an award for hitters, the Hank Aaron Award, started in 1999. Traditionally, the MVP has been given to a hitter, Roger Clemens being the last pitcher to win in 1986, and this has continued even after the inauguration of the Hank Aaron Award, although it doesn't really make sense.
2006-12-08 16:49:51 · answer #3 · answered by AustinBishop79 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babe Ruth - As both a tumbler and a hitter! position gamers: Lou Gehrig Ted Williams Willie Mays Rickey Henderson Ty Cobb Hank Aaron Jackie Robinson(both as a participant and for what he did to assist desegregate the game) Honus Wagner Rogers Hornsby Pitchers: Cy youthful Nolan Ryan Bob Gibson vast prepare Walter Johnson Bob Feller Sandy Koufax damn - Thats 16 and that i have left off Musial, Mantle and Schmidt and that i do not actually have a Catcher like Bench or Berra, who both belong in that crew, as does Piazza. Clemens certainly belongs with those adult males i discussed too. And there are quite some ***** League gamers like Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and funky Papa Bell which could favor to be suggested with those adult males. am i able to easily make it a crew of 24? for sure the Steroid Farces of the ninety's and early 2000's Like Bonds, and McGwire do not belong in that crew besides the very shown truth that Bonds may have made it if he hadn't began juicing. He turned right into a perennial 30-30 guy earlier steroids. Now he's only a comic book tale. and that i visit't contain Shoeless Joe Jackson or Rose because they were banned from the game. for sure they belong on skills on my own, yet i visit't in good experience of precise and incorrect contain them lower than the situations.
2016-11-25 00:22:55 · answer #4 · answered by oroza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem with the MVP is the people who vote on it dont really see the other players play. They just know the top names and go with it. They dont see how a person actually carries his team, they just look at the numbers. They should really change the voting system for the MVP award...
2006-12-09 03:54:59 · answer #5 · answered by BPZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have silver slugger and Hank Aaron. Silver Slugger is a bit more authentic, because HA is voted on by fans (pointless...)
2006-12-08 17:27:52 · answer #6 · answered by johnnydera18 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask that idiot commish Bud Selig, I'm sure he'll jump right on it.
2006-12-08 16:44:55 · answer #7 · answered by Investor_Clown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋