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Yount Wins AL MVP

November 9 3 Comments

Yount’s amazing season was rewarded with an AL MVP award.

MILWAUKEE — It started with a single voice. One prescient, informed voice.

“M-V-P! M-V-P!”

Or maybe it started as a joke. Maybe it was some two-fist slopper in the grandstand, soused to the gills and slurring.

“M-V-P! M-V-P!”

Whether it started as an honest examination of the season or whether it started in jest, Brewers fans birthed and owned the chant of “M-V-P!” in 1982. Though it wouldn’t count, it was the Brewers’ fans vote for their hero, The Kid, Robin Yount.

Today, the Baseball Writers of Association America made it official, but shockingly not unanimous. Yount won 27 of 28 of the first place votes and 385 total points to win the American League Most Valuable Player award. Of course, the BBWAA is the same prestigious group who have never unanimously elected anyone to the Hall of Fame, including Hank Aaron earlier this season. (Really, the guy hits 755 home runs, and there are a few who don’t think he’s a Hall of Famer? Idiots.)

Yount missed becoming the AL’s first unanimous selection since Reggie Jackson. In a bitter irony, Jackson received the other first-place vote. Who knew it was like Heisman Trophy voting where past winners get a chance to cast a ballot? (That’s a joke, just like Yount not winning unanimously.)

“It’s quite an honor,” said a humble Yount. “I feel it’s the type of award you couldn’t win without the help from everybody else.”

Robin is the ultimate teammate, and it’s his humility that may have kept Golla from voting for him. As Yount says, he couldn’t have done it without his teammates.

But those teammates and his coaches love him. And ultimately, Robin doesn’t care about that one vote or the award.

“I’m very happy for him because he’s definitely deserved being named Most Valuable Player,” said manager Harvey Kuenn. “As far as I’m concerned, he’s the best shortstop I’ve ever seen play.”

That great shortstop far outpaced Baltimore’s Eddie Murray, who finished second with 228 points, and California’s Doug Decinces was third with 178. Jackson was fourth.

The Crew’s amazing season was rewarded in the voting as five Brewers received MVP votes: Cecil Cooper finished fifth, Gorman Thomas finished eighth, and Paul Molitor, Pete Vuckovich and Rollie Fingers also received votes.

Except for one moronic voter, there was no other choice. But the voices inside County Stadium rang true. They knew, and soon so did everyone else.

“M-V-P! M-V-P! M-V-P! M-V-P!”

Player – Tm Pts 1st AVG HR RBI W ERA SV
Robin Yount, MIL 385 27 .331 29 114      
Eddie Murray, BAL 228 0 .316 32 110      
Doug DeCinces, CAL 178 0 .301 30 97      
Hal McRae, KCR 175 0 .308 27 133      
Cecil Cooper, MIL 152 0 .313 32 121      
R. Jackson, CAL 107 1 .275 39 101      
Dwight Evans, BOS 57 0 .292 32 98      
G. Thomas, MIL 44 0 .245 39 112      
D Quisenberry, KCR 39 0   0 0 9 2.57 35
R. Henderson, OAK 38 0 .267 10 51      
Dave Winfield, NYY 33 0 .280 37 106      
Paul Molitor, MIL 29 0 .302 19 71      
Lance Parrish, DET 26 0 .284 32 87      
Brian Downing, CAL 22 0 .281 28 84      
Willie Wilson, KCR 16 0 .332 3 46      
Bob Boone, CAL 12 0 .256 7 58      
Rollie Fingers, MIL 12 0   0 0 5 2.6 29
P. Vuckovich, MIL 11 0   0 0 18 3.34 0
Jim Rice, BOS 10 0 .309 24 97      
Harold Baines, CHW 9 0 .271 25 105      
George Brett, KCR 9 0 .301 21 82      
Toby Harrah, CLE 9 0 .304 25 78      
Don Baylor, CAL 8 0 .263 24 93      
A. Thornton, CLE 8 0 .273 32 116      
Bob Stanley, BOS 6 0   0 0 12 3.1 14
Rod Carew, CAL 5 0 .319 3 44      
D. Garcia, TOR 5 0 .310 5 42      
Jim Palmer, BAL 5 0   0 0 15 3.13 1
Bill Caudill, SEA 4 0   0 0 12 2.35 26
Buddy Bell, TEX 3 0 .296 13 67      
Cal Ripken, BAL 3 0 .264 28 93      
C. Lansford, BOS 1 0 .301 11 63      
Rick Sutcliffe, CLE 1 0   0 0 14 2.96 1
Gary Ward, MIN 1 0 .289 28 91      
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