Just in time for this year’s
Internet Baseball
Awards, we’ve stumbled upon the remaining data from the Team of the Decade
voting.
Previous articles in this series:
The rotation of the Decade is set.
Greg Maddux missed out on
MVP of
the Decade, but he did get the most votes for Pitcher of the Decade and
will be the rotation’s ace. Maddux was exceptionally durable and above
average every year in the decade.
Roger Clemens came in second. Clemens’ career doesn’t dovetail as
well with a decade competition like this one; he had some of his best years
in the previous decade. Randy Johnson, Tom Glavine, and
Pedro Martinez round out the staff.
Pitcher P Greg Maddux 755 Roger Clemens 681 Randy Johnson 554 Tom Glavine 467 Pedro Martinez 318 David Cone 255 Mike Mussina 241 John Smoltz 174 Kevin Brown 131 Kevin Appier 113 Curt Schilling 86 Orel Hershiser 18 David Wells 16 Chuck Finley 11 Jimmy Key 8 Jack McDowell 8 Dennis Martinez 8 Jose Rijo 7 Jack Morris 7 Dave Stewart 7 Bret Saberhagen 7 Jim Abbott 6 Charles Nagy 6 Ramon Martinez 5 Kenny Rogers 5 Frank Viola 5 Pat Hentgen 4 Kevin Tapani 4 Zane Smith 3 Tom Candiotti 3 Terry Mulholland 3 Steve Trachsel 3 Ron Darling 3 Pete Harnisch 3 Mike Hampton 3 Jamie Moyer 3 Dwight Gooden 3 Doug Drabek 3 Al Leiter 3 Shane Reynolds 2 Mike Morgan 2 Juan Guzman 2 John Smiley 2 Denny Neagle 2 Darryl Kile 2 Charlie Hough 2 Andy Ashby 2 Todd Stottlemyre 1 Tim Wakefield 1 Steve Avery 1 Scott Sanderson 1 Scott Erickson 1 Pete Schourek 1 Pedro Astacio 1 Mike Moore 1 Mark Portugal 1 Mark Langston 1 Kevin Gross 1 Dave Burba 1 Danny Darwin 1 Cal Eldred 1 Bobby Jones 1 Bob Tewksbury 1 Bill Swift 1 Ben McDonald 1 TOTAL 3974
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