1998 National League Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders

1997 NL / 1999 NL / 1998 AL / 1998 MLB Awards, All-Stars and Other Leaders

League Awards

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

Award-Winners Complete Voting Results

Most Valuable Player Award	Sammy Sosa CHC 159 G .308/.377/.647
Cy Young Award	Tom Glavine ATL 20-6, 2.47, 157 SO
Rookie of the Year Award	Kerry Wood CHC 13-6, 3.40, 233 SO
Manager of the Year Award	Larry Dierker
Batting Champion (highest BA as recognized at time) (List of Winners)	Larry Walker COL 130 G .363/.445/.630
ERA Pitching Champion (lowest ERA as recognized at time) (List of Winners)	Greg Maddux ATL 18-9, 2.22, 204 SO
Rolaids Reliever of the Year	Trevor Hoffman SDP 4-2 (53 SV), 1.48, 86 SO
NLCS MVP	Sterling Hitchcock - S
TSN Pitcher of the Year	Kevin Brown SDP 18-7, 2.38, 257 SO

Gold Glove Winners (history)

Pitcher	Greg Maddux
Catcher	Charles Johnson
First Base	J.T. Snow
Second Base	Bret Boone
Third Base	Scott Rolen
Shortstop	Rey Ordonez
Outfield	Barry Bonds, Andruw Jones and Larry Walker

Silver Slugger Winners (history)

Pitcher	Tom Glavine ATL 33 G .239/.250/.282
Catcher	Mike Piazza TOT 151 G .328/.390/.570
First Base	Mark McGwire STL 155 G .299/.470/.752
Second Base	Craig Biggio HOU 160 G .325/.403/.503
Third Base	Vinny Castilla COL 162 G .319/.362/.589
Shortstop	Barry Larkin CIN 145 G .309/.397/.504
Outfield	Moises Alou HOU 159 G .312/.399/.582 Sammy Sosa CHC 159 G .308/.377/.647 Greg Vaughn SDP 158 G .272/.363/.597

League All-Stars

All Star Directory · (* - indicates they played)

Box Score and Play-by-Play
Starters P. Greg Maddux (ATL) C. Mike Piazza (NYM) 1B. Mark McGwire (STL) 2B. Craig Biggio (HOU) 3B. Chipper Jones (ATL) SS. Walt Weiss (ATL) LF. Barry Bonds (SFG) CF. Larry Walker (COL) RF. Tony Gwynn (SDP)	Moises Alou* (HOU) Andy Ashby* (SDP) Dante Bichette* (COL) Bret Boone (CIN) Kevin Brown* (SDP) Vinny Castilla* (COL) Andres Galarraga* (ATL) Tom Glavine* (ATL) Trevor Hoffman* (SDP)	Jason Kendall* (PIT) Javy Lopez* (ATL) Robb Nen* (SFG) Rick Reed (NYM) Edgar Renteria* (FLA) Curt Schilling (PHI) Jeff Shaw* (LAD) Gary Sheffield* (LAD) Sammy Sosa (CHC)	Ugueth Urbina* (MON) Greg Vaughn* (SDP) Fernando Vina* (MIL) Devon White* (ARI)

NL Other Leaders

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Wins Above Replacement--all s c a p y
1.	Brown (SDP)	8.8
2.	Bonds (SFG)	7.9
3.	Olerud (NYM)	7.3
4.	McGwire (STL)	7.2
5.	Guerrero (MON)	7.1
	Jones (ATL)	7.1
7.	Jordan (STL)	6.8
	Jones (ATL)	6.8
	Maddux (ATL)	6.8
10.	Leiter (NYM)	6.6

Oldest s c a p y
1.	Martinez (ATL)	born 1955-05-14
2.	Darwin (SFG)	born 1955-10-25
3.	Jones (MIL)	born 1957-06-24
4.	Fossas (CHC)	born 1957-09-23
5.	Gaetti (STL)	born 1958-08-19
6.	Hershiser (SFG)	born 1958-09-16
7.	McGee (STL)	born 1958-11-02
8.	Eisenreich (LAD)	born 1959-04-18
9.	Phillips (NYM)	born 1959-04-25
10.	Patterson (CHC)	born 1959-05-16

Youngest s c a p y
1.	Beltre (LAD)	born 1979-04-07
2.	Ramirez (PIT)	born 1978-06-25
3.	Perez (ATL)	born 1978-06-11
4.	Chen (ATL)	born 1977-06-19
5.	Wood (CHC)	born 1977-06-16
6.	Dempster (FLA)	born 1977-05-03
7.	Jones (ATL)	born 1977-04-23
8.	Reyes (LAD)	born 1977-04-19
9.	Fontenot (FLA)	born 1977-03-20
10.	Davis (SDP)	born 1977-03-10

Salary s c a p y
1.	Sheffield (FLA)	$14,936,667
2.	Maddux (ATL)	$9,600,000
3.	McGwire (STL)	$8,928,354
4.	Bonds (SFG)	$8,916,667
5.	Galarraga (ATL)	$8,400,000
6.	Sosa (CHC)	$8,325,000
7.	Piazza (LAD)	$8,000,000
8.	Bagwell (HOU)	$7,945,000
9.	Smoltz (ATL)	$7,750,000
10.	Fernandez (FLA)	$7,000,000
	Glavine (ATL)	$7,000,000

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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