1974 Major League Baseball Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders

1973 MLB / 1975 MLB / 1974 NL / 1974 AL Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders

League Awards

Batting stats are G BA/OBP/SLG Pitching stats are W-L ERA, SO.

World Series MVP	Rollie Fingers - S
Roberto Clemente Humanitarian Award	Willie Stargell
TSN Major League Player of the Year	Lou Brock STL 153 G .306/.368/.381
All-Star Game MVP	Steve Garvey
Hutch Award	Danny Thompson
Lou Gehrig Memorial Award	Willie Stargell

MLB Other Leaders

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Wins Above Replacement--all s c a p y
1.	Schmidt (PHI)	9.5
2.	Matlack (NYM)	8.4
	Morgan (CIN)	8.4
4.	Perry (CLE)	8.2
5.	Niekro (ATL)	7.7
	Bench (CIN)	7.7
7.	Wynn (LAD)	7.6
8.	Blyleven (MIN)	7.5
9.	Tiant (BOS)	7.4
	Jenkins (TEX)	7.4

Oldest s c a p y
1.	McMahon (SFG)	born 1930-01-04
2.	Pena (STL)	born 1933-11-17
3.	Aaron (ATL)	born 1934-02-05
4.	Cash (DET)	born 1934-11-10
5.	Kaline (DET)	born 1934-12-19
6.	Alou (MIL)	born 1935-05-12
7.	Robinson (CAL)	born 1935-08-31
8.	Veale (BOS)	born 1935-10-28
9.	Perry (CLE)	born 1935-10-30
10.	Gibson (STL)	born 1935-11-09

Youngest s c a p y
1.	Yount (MIL)	born 1955-09-16
2.	Clyde (TEX)	born 1955-04-22
3.	Dilone (PIT)	born 1954-11-01
4.	Washington (OAK)	born 1954-08-31
5.	Miller (MIL)	born 1954-08-01
6.	Blair (MON)	born 1954-06-05
7.	Carter (MON)	born 1954-04-08
8.	Nyman (CHW)	born 1954-03-07
9.	Turner (SDP)	born 1954-01-17
10.	Underwood (PHI)	born 1953-12-22

For batting rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/G, 1.0 IP/G, 0.5 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), and 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/G for single-season leaderboards generally needed for rate statistics. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1954, so all leaders are since 1954. Explanation of min. requirements

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