[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by cgjackson222

It's close for sure, but I don't think you can say Dale had better stats. Yes, he had more Home Runs, RBI and runs, but he had a lower batting average and lower slugging. And its not every day a catcher wins the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger in the same year.

And I don't think you can look at who had the most first place votes to determine who deserved MVP. As this thread has shown, the voters don't always vote for the best or most valuable player.

Murphy.281 vs Carter .293 batting average really close
Murphy .507 Carter vs .510 slugging real close

not enough of a difference to account for 11 people ahead of him.

Carter was well liked and respected so even if he was snubbed by some hard for me to believe he would be snubbed by all.

He was a deserving player like many of the others he just did not win it. Not sure how the voters of the day use position, team record, etc in there factoring.

But again we can agree to disagree and this is the beauty of this thread and forum

and I am a Carter Fan and I am a Met fan I was just looking at the numbers for stats, the number of players in the voting and in their positioning.