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2008 Major League Baseball Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders

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League Awards

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

World Series MVP

Cole Hamels - S

TSN Major League Player of the Year

Albert Pujols
STL 148 G .357/.462/.653

All-Star Game MVP

J.D. Drew

Hutch Award

Jon Lester

Lou Gehrig Memorial Award

Shane Victorino

Branch Rickey Award

Trevor Hoffman

MLB Other Leaders

Glossary · Hold mouse over statistic name to see description
Wins Above Replacement--all  s c a p y
1.Pujols (STL)9.0
2.Utley (PHI)8.8
3.Lincecum (SFG)7.8
4.Teixeira (2TM)7.5
5.Jones (ATL)7.1
Markakis (BAL)7.1
7.Santana (NYM)6.9
8.Sabathia (2TM)6.8
Pedroia (BOS)6.8
10.Wright (NYM)6.7
Beltran (NYM)6.7
Oldest  s c a p y
1.Moyer (PHI)born 1962-11-18
2.Johnson (ARI)born 1963-09-10
3.Rogers (DET)born 1964-11-10
4.Timlin (BOS)born 1966-03-10
5.Glavine (ATL)born 1966-03-25
6.Maddux (SDP)born 1966-04-14
7.Alou (NYM)born 1966-07-03
8.Wakefield (BOS)born 1966-08-02
9.Vizquel (SFG)born 1967-04-24
10.Smoltz (ATL)born 1967-05-15
Youngest  s c a p y
1.Kershaw (LAD)born 1988-03-19
2.Snider (TOR)born 1988-02-02
3.Upton (ARI)born 1987-08-25
4.Gillaspie (SFG)born 1987-07-18
5.Maybin (FLA)born 1987-04-04
6.Bruce (CIN)born 1987-04-03
7.Martis (WSN)born 1987-03-30
8.Escobar (MIL)born 1986-12-16
9.Tucker (FLA)born 1986-12-06
10.Niese (NYM)born 1986-10-27
Salary  s c a p y
1.Rodriguez (NYY)$28,000,000
2.Giambi (NYY)$23,428,571
3.Jeter (NYY)$21,600,000
4.Ramirez (BOS)$18,929,923
5.Beltran (NYM)$18,622,809
6.Suzuki (SEA)$17,102,149
7.Santana (NYM)$16,984,216
8.Helton (COL)$16,600,000
9.Hunter (LAA)$16,500,000
10.Abreu (NYY)$16,000,000
Pettitte (NYY)$16,000,000
Delgado (NYM)$16,000,000
Zambrano (CHC)$16,000,000

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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