ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT  DRINKING WITH THE SCOUTS AT THE BARLEYMOE

Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by scouts Evan Williams,  Jack Daniels, George Dickell and Basil Hayden

Elijah: I thought we could discuss the type-A free agency signing. Who helped  themselves , who over payed and who made good decisions and lost their gamble.

Basil Hayden: Elijah, you know we're just scouts, who maybe drink too much, this is going to upset the league. 

Elijah: All these owners KNOW  we drink too much but they find us amusing.  I thought we could look at the twelve type-A free signings made this season.

George: Easy for you to say Elijah, Do we do it by team, do we do it by wins the previous season or teams  that are paying  you as a consultant?

Elijah: REALLY ! REALLY! I'm just here  to facilitate a discussiom about the league/

Elijah: Since free agency is all about how much is spent on a free agent,  Evan can you give us a list of the free agents and how much money they are being paid?

Evan:   Third baseman Dan Leach signed a 4 year contract for 10.8 million and 1 10 million bonus.

             Pitcher Rolando Guerrero signed for 14 million over 5 years.

             Pitcher Terry Morgan signed 5 years at 10 million

             Pitcher  Chris Foster signed 4 years for 8.55 million

             Pitcher  Adelny Mota signed for 3 years at 8.33 million

             Right fielder Henry Floyd signed for 4 years at 7.15

             Pitcher Corban Seay  signed for 2 years at 6.8 million

George: Does anybody give a damn about hitting?

Jack:     Apparently not George!

Evan:    Pitcher  Ira Bryant 5 years at 6.0 million

             Third baseman  Gregorio Ontiveros  2 years at 5.15 million

             Left Fielder Viosergy Carpenter 2 years at 4.1 million

              Pitcher Keyvius Glynn 2 years at 3.6 million

              Right Fielder Sven Hudson  2 years at 3.5 million

              Second baseman Max Macias  2 years at 3.36 millions

              Pitcher  Neftali Ortiz 2 years at 3.3 million

              Pitcher Ramon Tanaka 1 year at 1.49 million

Elijah : So we only had 15 type one free agents sign with other teams so far?

Jack:     I believe that all the type A players have been signed, there maybe 2 or 3 type-b players that are  available but this is really where we stand,

Elijah: George can you break this down a little about how it affects the current season?

George :  London. Norfolk, Kansas City and Colorado Springs signed 2 free agents.

George: London last season was 84-78, 3 games behind San Juan. They were a minus 16 in run differential. Norfolk in the same division as London was 84-78, 2 games behind San Juan. They had a positive run differential of 34 runs. Colorado Springs was 59-103 in Season 72. The only American League team to sign  2 type-A free agents was Kansas City. They won 107 games last season but lost in the World series to Seattle.

Basil:  I'd like to comment on the Kansas City situation Elijah, if I may.

Elijah: Everybody just jump in when you want. i'm here to listen and drink

Basil : duece112 has almost brought back his entire Kansas City Monarch team. There has been a little defensive shuffling ; shortstop Kirk Leonard wasn't resigned and remains a free agent. Carlos Fernandez, a defensive replacement last year has taken over the position this year. It's the changes in the pitching staff that is really interesting. Both Jody Blair and Neftali Ortiz were signed after spending the previous season in Seattle. Rolando Guerrero was also signed  away from Norfolk.

   Evan:  That is interesting because Norfolk signed Ernest Stone away from Kansas City. Stone was a type-B free agent.

Basil : It gets better, t seems to me. Ira Bryant who won 12 games for the Monarchs last season, is going to be hard to replace in  the rotation. Rolando Guerrero is slated for that spot in the rotation .Guerrero was used out of the bull pen by Norfolk last year and hasn't started a game since season 68. Also Jody Blair was a sometime starter for Seattle last year; so thats two guys adjusting to the starting rotation for a championship team. Blair will be replacing Felipe Lee in the rotation. Lee has moved, on currently holding down a long reliever with the Voodoo.

 Elijah: Can we move away and cover the National League East?

George: I'll be happy to cover that for you Elijah. To begin with the managers in the division have over 2300 seasons playing HBD. So this is a very strong competitive division. Last season San Juan won 87, Norfolk won 85, and London won 84. Using advanced standings San Juan and Norfolk  won exactly the number of games they should have. stonewalter  in London won  four games more than his run differential predicted. There was a three game split between first place and third  place.  San Juan lost two type-B relievers but added fight fielder Henry Floyd. In season 72 , 10 players started games in right field for the Expos. mike1184  has put an end to that.

 Jack: Did you forget about the Addison Mieses signing?

George: You love it when I mistake. yes I did.

Jack: Yes I do!

George: So San Juan added Addison Mieses but lost Alexi Chantres and Darren Duncan. Mieses has been a spot starter but Chantres and Duncan were replaceable pieces in the Expos bull pen.  

In Norfolk, needing to win 3 more games or improve by 17 runs; their approach was to sign Adelny Mota,  Terry Morgan and Ernest Strong. London signed Max Macias and Viosergy Carpenter, Both Macias , and  Viosergy Carpenter are former all stars were signed to ignite the offense. 

Elijah: Can we wrap this up and call the uber.

Jack: We have more research.

Elijah: This has been along night. Let's wrap this up by predicting who wins the National League East.

Elijah: Evan what do you predict

Evan: We haven't talked about this team but I like the retool by Allatarinc in Hartford

Elijah: Basil what is your opinion?

Basil : I stay with Mike and San Juan

Elijah : Jack ...

Jack: I'll go London with 99 wins

George: Jack, nobody's going to win 99 games in this divsion. My thoughts are San Juan and Norfolk end tied. Since Norfolk won the first series 2-1, I'll say Norfolk over San Juan by virtue of their head-head record.

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Season 73 HOF Voting

 The impetus for this blog post is two-fold: first and foremost is the spirited discussion on the World Chat, and secondly is the fact that we've been looking for something to revive the blog a bit so I figured I'd use this space to talk through my thoughts on the HOF debate that we've been having (apologies to those of you on the HOF Committee as you've likely heard a lot of this already!) 

Throughout my time on the HOF Committee, I have used a number of metrics to help me make sense of a player's case for the HOF and/or to prioritize who to vote for in the years we had more deserving candidates than votes to use. The three primary metrics that I go to are Bill James' HOF Monitor Score, Wins Above Replacement and then one that I have adapted from an article a number of years ago about who the best-ever free-agency signing was in MLB up until that point which I have come to refer to as a player's "Importance Score." In short, the "Importance Score" combines a players Wins Above Replacement, Cy Youngs and MVPs (personal performance) with their number of World Series Rings (team performance) to get an overall sense of what they accomplished in their careers. 

In an ideal scenario, I'd have park-factor-adjusted WAR totals that I could use to calculate Importance Scores for each HOF candidate but which metric I use year to year depends on the amount of time I have available to calculate their performance (or if I've calculated some of it in a previous year.) The HOF Monitor Scores take the least amount of time, WAR totals take a medium amount of time, and Importance Scores take the most time, so while it is the metric I'd most like to use, it is also the metric I have recorded for the fewest players. 

This season, to jumpstart the conversation and make a "quick-ish" decision I chose to look at HOF Monitor Scores. Without going into too much detail about how scores are calculated (I'm happy to discuss it via TC, Sitemail or Discord but don't want to take up too much more space than I already have here)these are the categories that I typically sort players into using the HOFM Score:

• Should be Inner Circle HOF'ers (HOF Monitor Score of 130+)
• HOF Quality for sure (HOFM 100-129)
• Good points could be made for and against HOF worthiness (HOFM 70-99)
• Could make HOF given other special circumstances (HOFM 50-69)
• Why am I even on the ballot? (HOFM 49 and below)

Based on the players we had discussed last year and those who had been mentioned in World Chat, I was interested in finding out where Magglio Garza, JJ Jensen, Vic Almadova, David Oropesa, Willie Espinosa, Shane Ashby, Kelly Spiezio, Miguel Fernandez and Carlos Romero each ended up on that scale. The following is what I found out: 

Should be Inner Circle HOF'ers (HOF Monitor Score of 130+)...these are the types of guys I've advocated for "Lock" status across the years

• Carlos Romero, 327 points
• Magglio Garza, 178 points
• JJ Jensen, 158 points
• Vic Almadova, 140 points

HOF Quality for sure (HOFM 100-129)

• David Oropesa, 110 points
• Willie Espinosa, 109 points
• Shane Ashby, 102 points
• Kelly Spiezio, 101 points

Good points on both sides (HOFM 70-99) ...think "Hall of Very Good"

• Miguel Fernandez, 87.5 points

Special Circumstances Needed (HOFM 50-69)

None

Why?? (HOFM 49 and below)

None

By my count, that's 8 players that deserve to be in the HOF based solely on their individual bodies of work, and Fernandez makes a strong case individually plus he won 3 rings so he'd also get my vote in a binary world...which brings me to nine guys I'd happily vote for and I only get to vote for five of them. This means I have to pick and choose and ruffle some feathers (or get WISBob to give us 10 HOF votes! 🙏🏻😂) The four inner circle guys will definitely get my vote, and the fifth one will probably go to whoever among the second tier guys the rest of the committee was lobbying hardest for (but honestly that might even be Fernandez and I wouldn't be mad about that either.) 

Name That Player (and help a friend!)

 Hello Hive Mind!

The blog is returning with a new feature: interactive feedback. Before we get to the interactive portion, a little background is needed. IRL, I am a Special Education teacher tasked with teaching executive functioning skills to middle schoolers with ADHD. Being a former ADHD middle school boy myself, I know those kinds of lessons can be rather boring sometimes...and then when I was reading a WIS box score at lunch one day it hit me: I can use this site to my advantage to sneak executive functioning skills into things they view as just a big game. 

The premise: They get to start a franchise in the sport of their choice from scratch and be owner/GM/all other things (except players.) I will then use the Dream Team feature of WIS to make their dreams a reality and make them carry out the tasks of the various roles as we go and "accidentally" practice the executive functioning skills along the way. I started by having them choose a name and location for their teams, then asked them to pick their ideal starting lineups using any combination of players they wanted. 

Most of them understood the assignment, chose real athletes and I'll be able to set their teams up over the holiday break. A few got a little confused...and one student in particular fielded a baseball team that gave me a few good laughs and finally brings us to the interactive portion of today's post. The lineup and justifications for the student's selections are as follows: 

• Catcher-Helen Keller "because she'd offer good support"
• First Base- Taiki Shuttle (the horse) "because he's also a good runner" 
• Second Base- Hatsune Miku (the Japanese musical artist) "because they're a good runner" 
• Third Base-Big Papi ("A legend") 
• Shortstop-Stone Cold Steve Austin ("because he tackles the other team") 
• Outfield-Fredrick Douglas ("he would like it")
• Outfield-{her Middle School English Teacher} ("he's probably good") 
• Outfield-Dr. Gregory House ("to insult the other team") 
• Pitcher-Tractor Supply Manager...Just One Guy (no reason given) 
• Pitcher-Myself ("I was good at pitching") NOTE: she's a small caucasian female, currently in 9th grade

The interactive piece is that I need the help of this community to brainstorm actual players I can put into WIS' Dream Team in order to simulate games for this most glorious and entertaining of squads. My goal is to match personalities as closely as possible to the provided descriptions (ie Miku would ideally be an Asian player known for speed etc.) Let the brainstorming begin, and send me your thoughts via Trade Chat, Sitemail or simply post in World Chat 😀

                           Another Saturday night drinking with the scout at the Barleymoe

            Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by Hiram Walker, Captain Morgan, and Jack Daniels.

Elijah:  Captain were you surprised to get your invitation to join us tonight?

Captain: Yes, you have made horrible accusations about me, in the past, taking owners hostage and using them to extort ransom from Mr. Stickball that he never pays.

Elijah: Well Seventy_77 and billhowell75 have been returned to us, so you are once again welcome at the Barleymoe.

Captain: I want you to know that not a single dollar was exchanged between me and Mr. Stickball.

Jack: I can verify that Elijah. Feamster, of the Jersey League, paid Bill's ransom and bruinsfan911 , of the Plumpy Rules! league , paid the ransom on Seventy.

Captain: I thought bruinsfan911 was an emissary from Mr. Stickball. I thought I had finally got some of his money.

Hiram: After all this time you should know Mr. Stickball is too cheap to pay you ransom.

Elijah: Regardless of who paid what, we are delighted that Seventy_77 and billhowell75 are back in the league. Now let's get down to business fellas. I want to talk about the players who were drafted or signed as internationals last year.

Hiram: Well when I started looking at these youngsters, I was flabbergasted that pimpbotlove used Wilin Uribe in the majors last season.

Jack: Well he paid him a bonus in excess of 19 million dollars. You don't win 8 World Series in this league unless you're bold.

Captain : And bold he was. Uribe made 5 starts at Hi-A and then was promoted to the majors; starting 24 games for Vegas in the regular season.

Jack: I could be mistaken but I think Vegas had three starters on the sixty day disabled list last season. When you get that thin on the mound you got to go with what you have.

Elijah:  Are there any other of the newly signed players that you like?

Captain: Javier Seanez was the only international to get more than a 20 million dollar bonus last year.

Elijah: Only one? Are the owners suddenly getting frugal or was this a bad year for internationals?

Hiram :  Eleven guys got bonuses in excess of 5 million dollars; I wouldn't call that frugal.

Elijah: Of the eleven,  are there any  that you think are definite Hall-of-Famers?

Hiram: I wouldn't go that far this early in their careers but the guy I like most is Wichita's first baseman Cesar Ortiz. He had an OPS over 1.0 at Low-A last year. He kills right handed pitching and has power.

Elijah: Jack of the players drafted, do you see any Hall-of-Famers?

Jack: Yea, I like three of them a LOT. Eight of the first twelve picks were pitchers. The first pick Jerrod Diaz will be a starting pitcher that I think will make the Hall. The fourth pick Rip Nunnari, a right fielder will also make the Hall in my opinion. But the guy I like the best is guy dudemac took with the ninth pick. Norm King is going to save a lot of games in his career. He pitched at three levels last year, had a little trouble in Hi-A but I think he will break Geoff Reuschel's record for most career saves.

Captain: That's a little bold isn't Jack?

Jack: Well I don't think anyone is going to remember what I said fourteen seasons from now.

Elijah: Let's have one more round fellas. Hiram call the uber.

Another Saturday night drinking with the scouts at the Barleymoe

This Saturday Elijah Craig is joined by Johnny Walker,  Jim Beam, and George Dickell

   Editors note: I'm hesitant to resume to begin blogging again, since the leagues bloggers  are more serious and better writers. However this topic interest me. The Barleymoe is a typical Irish bar where important facts are mixed with both whiskey and humor.

Elijah: Fellas tonight I thought we would talk about how the players chosen in the rule 5 draft have faired this season.

Johnny: The thing that most strikes me about this draft is how aggressive Ottawa was to add important pieces to their system.

George : You don't see a lot of teams that go 102 and 60 allocate 4 or 5 spots for rule-5 players; the next season.

Jim: I think thuggis struck while the iron was hot. He hadn't used the rule 5 draft much in previous seasons.

George: Well he did really well getting 19 wins from pitchers in the rule 5 draft.

Johnny: The most amazing thing about his draft, the whiff he had on the first round with his pick of Terry Sheffield. After 16, forgettable games for Ottawa. Sheffield caught on with Montreal and was much better for the Magnifies.

Jim: Who the hell goes 19 and 5 with rule 5 pitchers?

Johnny and George in unisons: thuggis.

Elijah: Okay the guy is good but which player was the best pick in the rule 5 draft?

Johnny: Well I like Rigo Ordonez.  Taken in the second round,  by Wichita he hit .290 starting 92 games at first base.

George: Do you have a prejudice against batters in Colorado? Nathan Sanders slugged .477 for the Stickballers, his ops was .100 higher than Ordonez.

Johnny: Yes I do but I also grant that prejudice to pitchers that have to pitch in that ballpark.

Elijah: Jack what say do yee?

Jack: Well if you ask the question like a scotsman -yee- I'll go with Rigo Ordonez.

         But when it comes to the pitchers I want to point out Bruce Morgan dominated for Wichita with a 12-6 record and a 3.06 ERA.

George: Buster Lavarnway won 12 games for Harford. Ottawa won 11 more games than Hartford, so his contribution is greater thanMorgan's.

Jim: Elijah, am I supposed to render a decision about this two pitchers?

Elijah: No Jim I send out the invites so I get to make the final statement; have another drink it will make what I say easier for you to understand. The three of you come into this public house and believe you can pontificate what has happened and what will happen. The rule 5 draft is not about this year, it's about what these players do three season from now.

Johnny: So we wasted all this time on the draft with no results?

Elijah: No we had a very spirited discussion about the league while imbibing the only thing we love more than HBD.

Jim: Do you want me to call the uber?

Elijah: Please

My 2025 MLB Hall of Fame Ballot

 Since I have been using the "Importance Score" metric to evaluate the Stickball HOF for the past handful of seasons, I figured doing the same thing to the MLB HOF ballot would provide a good litmus test for how effective this made up metric actually is. As a reminder (or introduction) I calculate Importance Score using WAR/year and giving bonus points for MVP's, Cy Young Awards and World Series Rings. Generally speaking, any score in the double digits is something that I consider to be HOF worthy. Here's how this year's ballot looks:

Since MLB Hall voters are allowed 10 votes rather than just the five in HBD, my ballot for this year would be the following: 

1) Andy Pettitte

2) Dustin Pedroia

3) Ian Kinsler

4) Carlos Beltran

5) Mark Buehrle

6) CC Sabathia

7) Ben Zobrist

8) Jimmy Rollins

9) Felix Hernandez

10) Bobby Abreu

I have previously stated that I'd stay away from confirmed steriod users, so that along with the LONG list of worthy candidates on this year's ballot is why I started counting my votes at Pettitte rather than including A-Rod and Manny. That being said, if/when a Hardball player puts up those kinds of numbers I'd vote for them in a split second. It also tells me that the Importance Score (and the HOF cutoff being a double digit score) is just about right because the no-brainers end up clearly at the top and the guys that I often hear debates about (Tulo, Abreu, David Wright) are right in the middle with some just above and some just below the 10.0 cutoff. 

A Quicker MVP Voting Method: Seasons 65 + 66

 While I still believe that comparing Wins Above Replacement totals for the guys on the ballot is the most accurate and fair way to vote, doing that math can take a while. Therefore, I'd like to use something quicker (at least to start) when real life is busy, and I don't have time to do all that math. Enter the MVP Prediction System. It seems like it should be pretty reliable, and with the discussions around the real-life AL and NL MVP awards for this season heating up I want to take a few minutes to see who the Prediction System says should win this year. If I like the answer(s) it gives me, I may use it in Stickball (and my other HBD worlds) going forward. Let's get to it: 

2024 MLB AL MVP

• Leading the league in RBI = 1 pt : Aaron Judge 
• Leading the league in AVG = 1 pt : Bobby Witt
• Leading the league in HR = 1 pt : Aaron Judge
• 100+ RBI = 1 pt each: Aaron Judge, Jose Ramirez
• .300+ AVG = 1 pt each: Bobby Witt, Aaron Judge, Vlad Jr, Yordan Alvarez, Steven Kwan, Yanier Diaz

Based on those criteria, the standings are as follows:

1. Aaron Judge: 4 points
2. Bobby Witt: 2 points
3. Jose Ramirez, Vlad Jr, Yordan Alvarez, Steven Kwan, Yanier Diaz: 1 point

Points are also awarded for playing for a division winner (as of this writing that would be NYY, CLE, HOU.) Factoring in that bonus, the standings become:

1. Aaron Judge: 5 points
2. Bobby Witt, Jose Ramirez, Yordan Alvarez, Steven Kwan, Yanier Diaz: 2 points
3. Vlad Jr: 1 point

The final factor is if you play C, 2B, SS or CF on one of the division winners. Factoring in that bonus, we arrive at our final standings: 

1. Aaron Judge: 6 points 
2. Yanier Diaz: 3 points
3. Bobby Witt, Jose Ramirez, Yordan Alvarez, Steven Kwan: 2 points 
4. Vlad Jr: 1 point 

2024 MLB NL MVP

• Leading the league in RBI = 1 pt: Marcell Ozuna & Shohei Ohtani are tied
• Leading the league in AVG = 1 pt: Marcell Ozuna 
• Leading the league in HR = 1 pt: Shohei Ohtani 
• 100+ RBI = 1 pt each: none currently 
• .300+ AVG = 1 pt each: Marcell Ozuna, Luis Arraez

 That makes the initial standings: Marcell Ozuna 2.5 points, Shohei Ohtani 1.5 points, Luis Arraez 1 point. 

The current NL division leaders are PHI, MIL and LAD. That bumps Shohei up to 2.5 points to tie Ozuna for the lead. Since he's just DH'ing this year and not pitching, he doesn't get the positional bump either. That makes our final standings: 

1. Marcell Ozuna & Shohei Ohtani 2.5 points
2. Luis Arraez 1 point 

The linked BP article above says "if there's more than one candidate, sum their AVG, RBI's and HR and add a bonus (1 pt) for {C, 2B, SS, CF} and a bonus (1 pt) for playing for a divisions winner." 

• Ozuna: .307 AVG, 37 HR, 94 RBI at DH for ATL (no bonuses) = 131.307 points 
• Ohtani: .294 AVG, 41 HR, 94 RBI at DH for LAD (division bonus) = 136.294 points

Both of those predictions feel good, so now out of curiosity I'm going to compare this method to the WAR totals in Stickball to see if it makes a difference.

Stickball Season 65 AL MVP

• Leading the league in RBI = Dan Brown 
• Leading the league in AVG = Alex Calvo 
• Leading the league in HR = Vince Fonville 
• 100+ RBI = Dan Brown, Alex Calvo, Dennis Morgan, Vince Fonville, Eric Nola, Ted Touissaint, Wayne Teixeira, Gregorio Ontiveros, Harry Machi, Furio Betemit, Denny Kawasaki, Woody DeLuca, Parker Shelby, Damian Reed, John Rosenbaum, Danys Uribe, Darron Munson, Willie Espinosa, Daniel Wolcott
• .300+ AVG = Alex Calvo, Woody DeLuca, Koji Kim, Vince Lara, Emilio Jose, Gus Meng, David Beltre, Phil O'Shea, Rafael Jacquez, Vince Fonville

The AL Division winners this year were OTT, BUR, MTY and SF. After factoring in that and the positional bonuses associated with that, Here's the list of players who scored multiple points: 

1. Alex Calvo & Vince Fonville: 4 points
2. Dan Brown & David Beltre: 3 points
3. Emilio Jose, Woody DeLuca, Harry Machi, Damian Reed: 2 points

Calvo wins the tiebreaker over Fonville 187.342 to 179.301; Calvo also won the WAR total but by a much wider margin. Looking at the five guys on the ballot this season, let's see how the stack up using this scoring system: 

• Alex Calvo: 4 points
• Dan Brown: 3 points 
• Rafael Jacquez: 1 point 
• Brian Kojima: 0 points
• Vince Fonville: 4 points

The good news is that the WIS finalists are also the top two guys when you do it out the long way and, therefore, correctly identify the winner. The bad news is that guys like David Beltre get overlooked sometimes. 

Stickball Season 65 NL MVP

I follow the same process as with the AL MVP. The division winners were CLE, SJU, ELP and LV and I find the following players have multiple points by the end: 

1. Tim Martin, Niko Morton : 4 points
2. Hub Cooper, Del Lopez, Emil Vazquez, Joe Lange, Eugene Lee, Francisco Chavez, Guilder Gabriel, Isaac Holland : 3 points 
3. Cliff Leverton, D'Angelo Machado, Lorenzo Moreno, Oswaldo Cerveza, Claudio Jarvis, Ernest McPherson, Preston Cooney, Jorge Pena, Bob Haywood, Alex Manuel, Ivan Jacquez : 2 points 

Martin wins the tiebreaker over Morton 147.339 to 143.342 without even being nominated by WIS. Here's how the five guys who were nominated stack up: 

• Ivan Jacquez:  2 points 
• Cliff Leverton: 1 point (WAR winner...by quite a bit) 
• Bob Haywood: 2 points
• Claudio Jarvis: 2 points 
• Niko Morton: 4 points 

There'a fair bit of disagreement between WAR and this method for the NL MVP, and I like the WAR results better personally, but in a pinch this does seem like a good method to use. 

Stickball Season 66 AL MVP

It looks like I never hit "publish" on this post at the end of last season, so I'll just add another section to this already fairly lengthy post...and this time around it's Thanksgiving week so I don't have a ton of time and will use the method just for the five candidates. Here's how it shakes out: 

• Leading the league in RBI: Alex Calvo 
• Leading the league in AVG: Niko Morton (NL)
• Leading the league in HR: Alex Calvo
• 100+ RBI = Alex Calvo, Carlos Romero, Dan Brown, Ron Harris
• .300+ AVG = Alex Calvo, Carlos Romero, Dan Brown, Ron Harris
• Played for Div Winner: Carlos Romero, Ron Harris
• Playing C, 2B, CF or SS on Div. Winner: none

That gives us the final tally of:

• Alex Calvo = 4 points
• Carlos Romero & Ron Harris = 3 points
• Dan Brown = 2 points
• Rio Florimon = 0 points

Stickball Season 66 NL MVP

Repeating the same process as above provides the following results in the NL:

• Leading the league in RBI: Alex Calvo (AL)
• Leading the league in AVG: Niko Morton 
• Leading the league in HR: Alex Calvo (AL)
• 100+ RBI: Niko Morton, Pedro Trinidad, Henderson Moriarty, Ivan Jacquez, Jon Browne
• .300+ AVG: Niko Morton, Pedro Trinidad
• Played for Div. Winner: Pedro Trinidad, Ivan Jacquez, Jon Browne
• Played C,2B,CF or SS on Div Winner: none

That gives us a final tally of: 

• Niko Morton, Pedro Trinidad = 3 points
• Morton 161.362, Trinidad 132.323
• Ivan Jacquez, Jon Browne = 2 points
• Henderson Moriarty = 1 point