2018 Handies: Most Valuable Player

The 2018 WSEM Most Valuable Player is Chandler Phillips from the El Diablos. We could have tried to be cute and play the "he had a strong lineup around him and another bat was more valuable to their team" card, but, no. Chandler dominated the batting leaderboards: first place in every significant offensive production statistic except on base percentage, in which he was second among qualifying players. The result of all that was an overall average rank of 1.1 among all the bats in the league. Chandler won the triple crown, and could have won a couple quadruple crowns if there were such things. In a season that reintroduced yellow bats for the majority of games most hitters saw some regression. Chandler, on the other hand, posted career highs in H, 2B, RBI, AVG, and SLG. The MVP award is all about offense in WSEM; no need to overthink it. The numbers put up by CJ made this another easy decision.

PLAYER PA H HR RBI AVG OBP SLG AB/HR PA/RBI OA Rk
 Chandler Phillips 155 45 17 49 .363 .490 .839 7.29 3.16 1.1
 Kyle Tomlinson 165 43 12 44 .331 .473 .631 10.83 3.75 2.8
 Ray Brown 154 35 15 34 .289 .442 .719 8.07 4.53 3.9
 David Castle 156 42 11 35 .321 .423 .573 11.91 4.46 4.4
 Stephen Werner 79 18 4 15 .360 .595 .660 12.50 5.27 4.5
 Michael Giguere 146 38 10 28 .325 .452 .607 11.70 5.21 4.6