Vote: Alltime Baseball League Western League Outstanding Hitter (2019)

G-Force · 03-09-2018, 10:13 PM

It's time to vote for the Alltime Baseball League 2019 awards. As was the case last year, anyone voting in all the awards posted will get to pick any player to be included in the upcoming ABL Amateur Draft.

For those who don't know, the ABL (link to the dynasty is above) is a 16-team league based on the top players (based on WAR) in baseball history. A random spreadsheet generates the draft classes each year.

Thanks for taking part! As long as we get to 10 votes in a category, the board will pick the award winners!

GH

G-Force · 03-12-2018, 04:13 PM

Four different players receiving votes so far! Poll closes Wednesday night!

GH

Eugene Church · 03-12-2018, 06:18 PM

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.

G-Force · 03-12-2018, 07:11 PM

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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.

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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Eugene Church · 03-12-2018, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by G-Force

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.

GH

Maybe I'm just weird in my assessments... I'm not a SABR guy... just very old... old school... and old-fashioned... in general, I would never give a batting award to .250 or less hitter... or to pitchers with less than 12-15 wins... or to a pitcher with a losing record.

G-Force · 03-12-2018, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Maybe I'm just weird in my assessments... I'm not a SABR guy... just very old... old school... and old-fashioned... in general, I would never give a batting award to .250 or less hitter... or to pitchers with less than 12-15 wins... or to a pitcher with a losing record.

I get that. I certainly didn't think they'd win. I was really just locked in in getting to the 10 on the ballot based on my eligibilities. If it was just five as it should have been in retrospect, it would have been Crawford, Cobb, McCovey, Guerrero and Chance.

That said, Jim DeShaies once got a vote for the Hall of Fame! So voting takes all kinds!

GH

View Poll Results: Vote: Who is the ABL Western League's Outstanding Hitter
Frank Chance	0	0%
Ty Cobb	1	14.29%
Sam Crawford	2	28.57%
Jimmie Foxx	0	0%
Troy Glaus	0	0%
Vladimir Guerrero	1	14.29%
Willie Mays	1	14.29%
Willie McCovey	2	28.57%
Giancarlo Stanton	0	0%
Hack Wilson	0	0%
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03-09-2018, 10:13 PM	#1
G-Force All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,264	Vote: Alltime Baseball League Western League Outstanding Hitter (2019) It's time to vote for the Alltime Baseball League 2019 awards. As was the case last year, anyone voting in all the awards posted will get to pick any player to be included in the upcoming ABL Amateur Draft. For those who don't know, the ABL (link to the dynasty is above) is a 16-team league based on the top players (based on WAR) in baseball history. A random spreadsheet generates the draft classes each year. Thanks for taking part! As long as we get to 10 votes in a category, the board will pick the award winners! GH Attached Images __________________ LEGENDS SPORTS UNIVERSE - WHERE LEGENDS PLAY...FOREVER YouTube and the Web Check out my Dynasty Threads The Alltime Hockey Association The Alltime Baseball League Austin James: Playing For His Life (a Vietnam-era baseball drama) The Pastime Boxing Association

03-12-2018, 04:13 PM	#2
G-Force All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 1,264	Four different players receiving votes so far! Poll closes Wednesday night! GH __________________ LEGENDS SPORTS UNIVERSE - WHERE LEGENDS PLAY...FOREVER YouTube and the Web Check out my Dynasty Threads The Alltime Hockey Association The Alltime Baseball League Austin James: Playing For His Life (a Vietnam-era baseball drama) The Pastime Boxing Association

03-12-2018, 06:18 PM	#3
Eugene Church Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 35,946	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.