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Originally Posted by Eugene Church
Don't understand how Stanton and Glaus got into the poll with their poor batting averages.
Ditto for one of your pitching polls... Satchel Paige should never have been in the poll... several others, too.
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Weird tone to this, but I'll respond...
Paige is easy...was the league's ERA leader and it wasn't even that close. Despite his injury he had enough innings to qualify.
Stanton and Glaus were top 5 in homers. I'd probably whittle the list down from 10 to 5 going forward as I did for the pitchers. Basically to be eligible you have to be top 5 in average, homers, RBIs, OPS or WAR. From that, the top 10 guys based on points (ranking in each category) were on the ballot. Ten is admittedly overkill, though, which is why I went to 5 for pitchers.
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