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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      4. Part of the problem was that arguably the pennant-winning Senators' best player, Walter Johnson, was ineligible under 1920s rules, having won the MVP in 1924. But not nearly a complete excuse.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      5. Even by basic counting stats, Peckinpaugh hit a just-respectable .294/.367/.379 (the league hit .292/.360/.408), missed 28 games, had just 24 extra base hits, 64 RBI, 67 Runs, 13 steals.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      6. The best player in the AL was probably Harry Heilmann, who hit .393/.457/.569 with 134 RBI (distant 4th in the voting), or Al Simmons, .387/.419/.599, 122 Runs, 129 RBI, close 2d. But Tigers were an also-ran, and as for the A's...

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      7. The seesaw pennant race had the Senators trailing into mid-August, up half a game on August 27, but they won by 8.5 games because the youthful A's collapsed in September.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      8. Simmons, 23 & a second-year player, batted .410/.414/.569 in September, but the stink of that collapse must have rubbed off on him. Connie Mack started loading his bench with veterans after that.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      9. Peckinpaugh was the first SS ever to win an MVP, and the AL was very short on quality SS - but Joe Sewell of the Indians batted .336/.402/.424, 98 RBI. WAR rates him as 2x Peckinpaugh's value.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      10. OK, the writers wanted to honor a Senator. Strangest omission of all was Goose Goslin. In 1924, Goslin hit .344/.421/.516, led the AL in RBI. 1925, .334/.394/.547, 113 RBI. Fantastic defense at the time, as modern metrics confirm (24 assists in 25) 0 MVP votes either year.

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      11. Goslin finished in the top 10 in the voting the next two years, so whatever the writers had against him, they got over. But a bizarre snub.

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      12. Goslin would go on to start for every AL pennant winner between 1920-1939 that wasn't the Yankees or A's (3 as a Senator, 2 as a Tiger). Peckinpaugh started just 44 games in 1926, was basically finished.

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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      13. Anyway, advanced metrics show what a ridiculous choice this was, but the statistics readily available in 1925 were more than adequate to do so.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

      14. So that's the 1925 AL MVP race. Game 7 of the 1925 World Series is its own great story, which I touched on in this 2003 column: http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2003/01/baseball_baseba_3.php …pic.twitter.com/ORFvjvVSf4

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Matt Roberts, Rugby Enjoyer

          15. His batting line was consistent all year, but he did hit .333/.415/.542 vs the A's, & the team was 82-42 when he started, 14-13 when he didn't. But I believe it was the veteran-leadership card. He was 34, the manager was 28.https://twitter.com/j1ri_/status/962774838208335877 …

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          Matt Roberts, Rugby Enjoyer @j1ri_
          Replying to @baseballcrank
          So hypothetically, what's the case for Peckinpaugh? Particular reportage about veteran leadership? Performance in particular big or well-attended games?
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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

          16. Specifically, there was a 13-game stretch in September, 7 of them vs the A's, when Peckinpaugh hit .419/.490/.721 w/13 RBI, including a 2-HR game (he only hit 4 all year). So, the big games probably helped.

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 11 Feb 2018

          17. Probably also a factor: he had a big World Series in 1924 (this is before there was a World Series MVP Award), cementing a big-game reputation. That's all I got.

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