Baseball players are meant to be compared.
That should be pretty obvious, right? We started keeping track of statistics to do exactly that. Who won the most games? Who had the highest batting average? And so on. We developed awards for the same reason. Who was the best pitcher of 1963? Who was the Most Valuable Player in the league in 1941? Who was the b…
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