The St. Louis Cardinals won 101 games and their second World Series of the decade in spite of ace Bob Gibson missing six weeks with a broken leg. Orlando Cepeda won the MVP in his first full year with the Cards as he led the league in RBI. St. Louis won handily over San Francisco, 10.5 games back in second. Chicago was putting together a pitching staff and surged to 3rd, with Cincinnati 4th, Philadelphia 5th, Pittsburgh 6th at exactly .500, Atlanta 7th, a Koufax-less Dodger team 8th, Houston 9th, and the Mets last with 101 losses.
Roberto Clemente won the batting title at .357, well ahead of Tony Gonzalez at .339 or Matty Alou at .338. Clemente also led with 209 hits. Hank Aaron led in homers with 39 as well as in slugging. Lou Brock led in steals with 52. Dick Allen led in on-base and OPS. Rusty Staub had 44 doubles, Vada Pinson 13 triples. Aaron and Brock tied with 113 runs. Second to Aaron in homers with Jimmy Wynn with 37. The RBI leaders went Cepeda with 111, Clemente with 110, Aaron with 109, Wynn with 107.
Mike McCormick led in wins with 22, and Fergie Jenkins won 20. Phil Niekro led in ERA with a 1.87 mark, followed by Jim Bunning at 2.29 and Chris Short at 2.39. Bunning led in strikeouts with 253, followed by Jenkins at 236. Ted Abernathy led in saves with 28.
Doin' the Win Shares thing...
Players; Ron Santo (Chicago) 38, Roberto Clemente (Pittsburgh) 35, Hank Aaron (Atlanta) and Orlando Cepeda (St. Louis) 34, Lou Brock and Tim McCarver (both St. Louis) 30, Dick Allen (Philadelphia) and Jim Ray Hart (San Francisco) 29, Billy Williams (Chicago), Rusty Staub and Jim Wynn (Houston) 28 each, Adolpho Phillips (Chicago), Joe Morgan (Houston), Tony Gonzalez (Philadelphia) and Curt Flood (St. Louis) 26, Vada Pinson and Pete Rose (Cincinnati) and Willie McCovey (San Francisco) 24. No Willie Mays!
Pitchers: Jim Bunning (Philadelphia) 25, Ted Abernathy (Cincinnati) 24, Phil Niekro (Atlanta), Fergie Jenkins (Chicago), and Tom Seaver (New York) 21 each, Mike McCormick and Gaylord Perry (San Francisco) 20, Gary Nolan (Cincinnati) 19, Don Drysdale (Los Angeles) and Dick Hughes (St. Louis) 18, Mel Queen (Cincinnati) 17.
WARP3 leaders, position players: Santo 9.4, McCarver and Cepeda 8.9, Clemente and Aaron 8.2, Wynn 8.0, Hart 7.3, Brock and Flood 7.2, Gonzalez and Maury Wills (Pittsburgh) 7.0, Allen and Morgan 6.7, Staub 6.5, Gene Alley (Pittsburgh) 6.3, Rose 5.9, Phillips and Joe Torre (Atlanta) 5.8.
WARP3 leaders, pitchers: Bunning 9.1, Seaver 7.5, Niekro 7.1, Jankins 6.9, Chris Short (Philadelphia) 6.3, McCormick and Perry 6.0, Ken Johnson (Atlanta) 5.9, Nolan 5.8, Abernathy and Claude Osteen (Los Angeles) 5.7, Drysdale 5.6.
WAR leaders, position players (fWAR): Santo 10.2, Clemente 8.5, Aaron 8.1, Cepeda 7.6, Allen 6.8, McCarver 6.6, Hart 6.3, Brock and Gonzalez 6.1, Phillips 5.8, Wynn 5.7, Torre 5.6, Alley and McCovey 5.5, Flood and Staub 5.4, Williams 5.3, Morgan 5.2. Pitchers (bWAR): Bunning 8.4, Nolan 6.8, Short 6.6, Seaver 6.4, Perry 6.3, Abernathy 5.8, Niekro 5.7, Drysdale 5.5, Jenkins 5.4, McCormick 5.0, Queen 4.9, Maloney and Singer 4.7.
Actual award winners:
MVP (top 20): | Season Results
Rk Name Team 1st Place Points Max Points Share| AB H HR BA OPS SB| W-L IP ERA WHIP SO SV
+--+----------------+----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+---+--+-----+-----+
1 Orlando Cepeda STL 20 280 280 1.00 | 563 183 25 .325 .923 11
2 Tim McCarver STL 0 136 280 0.49 | 471 139 14 .295 .822 8
3 Roberto Clemente PIT 0 129 280 0.46 | 585 209 23 .357 .954 9
4 Ron Santo CHC 0 103 280 0.37 | 586 176 31 .300 .906 1
5 Hank Aaron ATL 0 79 280 0.28 | 600 184 39 .307 .943 17
6 Mike McCormick SFG 0 73 280 0.26 | 84 10 1 .119 .336 0| 22-10 262 2.85 1.148 150
7 Lou Brock STL 0 49 280 0.18 | 689 206 21 .299 .799 52
8 Tony Perez CIN 0 43 280 0.15 | 600 174 26 .290 .818 0
9 Julian Javier STL 0 41 280 0.15 | 520 146 14 .281 .718 6
10 Pete Rose CIN 0 40 280 0.14 | 585 176 12 .301 .808 11
11 Jimmy Wynn HOU 0 29 280 0.10 | 594 148 37 .249 .826 16
12 Fergie Jenkins CHC 0 26 280 0.09 | 93 14 0 .151 .404 0| 20-13 289 2.80 1.082 236
13 Curt Flood STL 0 24 280 0.09 | 514 172 5 .335 .793 2
14 Ernie Banks CHC 0 22 280 0.08 | 573 158 23 .276 .765 2
15 Nelson Briles STL 0 20 280 0.07 | 40 6 0 .150 .359 0| 14-5 155 2.43 1.153 94 6
16 Rusty Staub HOU 0 12 280 0.04 | 546 182 10 .333 .871 0
17 Jim Ray Hart SFG 0 10 280 0.04 | 578 167 29 .289 .882 1
17 Dick Hughes STL 0 10 280 0.04 | 78 10 0 .128 .278 0| 16-6 222 2.67 0.954 161 3
19 Dick Allen PHI 0 9 280 0.03 | 463 142 23 .307 .970 20
20 Ted Abernathy CIN 0 8 280 0.03 | 17 1 0 .059 .118 0| 6-3 106 1.27 0.978 88 28
Cepeda was a unanimous selection.
Cy Young: | Season Results
Rk Name Team 1st Place Points Max Points Share| W-L IP ERA WHIP SO SV
+--+----------------+----+-----+------+------+-----+------+---+-----+-----+---+--+
1 Mike McCormick SFG 18 18 20 0.90 | 22-10 262 2.85 1.148 150
2 Jim Bunning PHI 1 1 20 0.05 | 17-15 302 2.29 1.039 253
2 Fergie Jenkins CHC 1 1 20 0.05 | 20-13 289 2.80 1.082 236
McCormick's gaudy win total got him the award.
Rookie: | Season Results
Rk Name Team 1st Place Points Max Points Share| AB H HR BA OPS SB| W-L IP ERA WHIP SO SV
+--+----------------+----+-----+------+------+-----+-----+---+--+-----+-----+
1 Tom Seaver NYM 11 11 20 0.55 | 77 11 0 .143 .399 2| 16-13 251 2.76 1.203 170
2 Dick Hughes STL 6 6 20 0.30 | 78 10 0 .128 .278 0| 16-6 222 2.67 0.954 161 3
3 Gary Nolan CIN 3 3 20 0.15 | 67 7 0 .104 .297 0| 14-8 227 2.58 1.125 206
Seaver takes a fairly close vote split among three successful pitchers.
Top player: Ron Santo. He didn't lead the league in any flashy categories, but he was a force in the Cubs rising to 3rd place. This went ignored as Cepeda got what was partly a career achievement award for sparking the Cards to the pennant with a big RBI year. Santo was a significantly better player in 1967, though.
#1 Ron Santo, #2 Roberto Clemente, #3 Hank Aaron, #4 Orlando Cepeda, #5 Tim McCarver, #6 Tony Gonzalez.
Top pitcher: Jim Bunning, at age 35, was the best pitcher in the league. In the first year of the post-Koufax era, there was no real dominant pitcher. Bunning was certainly the best one, and gets my vote. Bunning was 2nd in ERA, tied for 3rd in wins, first in innings and strikeouts, but had a record just above .500 at 17-15. Therefore, the voters mostly ignored him. Niekro was better per inning, but started the year in the bullpen and didn't throw as many innings.
#1 Jim Bunning, #2 Fergie Jenkins, #3 Tom Seaver, #4 Phil Niekro, #5 Ted Abernathy.
Top rookie was Seaver. Much as I would love to pick Gary Nolan, it was Tom Terrific all the way.
Top manager: Red Schoendienst kept the Birds together even when Gibson was out.
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