Handies: Most Valuable Player


MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
STEPHEN FARKAS (SEE YAS)
H AVG OBP SLG RBI PA/RBI HR AB/HR Team RP %
53 .379 .519 .821 48 3.7 19 7.4 30.2%
Stephen Farkas had a breakout year offensively. Nearly tripling his annual home run total, and doubling his RBI production. He won the batting title, led the league in slugging and on-base percentage, and missed out on the triple crown by 1 home run. He also had the best ratio of at-bats per home run, and had the second-best plate appearances per RBI. All in all, Farkas accounted for north of 30% of the See Yas' total team run production. Most impressively, he put up the gaudy numbers without a real stat-padding game. The only #Paddington affair he found himself in was cut short by mercy, limiting it to only 5 PA. He posted the numbers consistently all season long against number-one and number-two arms; only 5 games did he go without a hit.

Honorable Mentions:
  • Stephen Werner (Red Cox) had another impressive season at the dish. He wound up second in batting average (.378), on-base percentage (.500), and total bases (119). His overall production numbers were significantly off the pace of other MVP candidates, though: 5.3 PA/RBI was over 1.3 plate appearances more than his competition, and his double-digit 10.9 AB/HR was 3 full at bats more than others in the discussion. Ultimately, though, the biggest strike against Werner's MVP bid may have been 13 hits and 4 home runs coming in an egregious stat-padding game to close out the season, which ballooned his final numbers.
  • Austin Bischoff (Wicked Aces) was likely the most important player in the league to his team. No other Ace played in over 14 games, and almost every game saw him as the centerpiece of a three-man lineup. This led to a lot of plate appearances and high numbers for the counting stats: 54 H, 63 RBI, 20 HR, and 123 TB. His percentage stats, though, were a bit more down to earth (.333 AVG, .460 OBP, .759 SLG) putting Austin behind others in the MVP discussion.