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Yes, Baseball has a Scoring Champ
Who won it? Plus, Bases Champ, MVPs, Cy Young winners
Photo credit: Tage Olsin
IN THIS ISSUE, the 2025 Baseball Awards:
- Scoring and Bases Champions (Yes, those are things; I created them)
- AL and NL MVP Chase Winners
- My unofficial AL and NL Cy Young ballots
NOTE: ALL STATISTICAL DATA BELOW COMES FROM STATHEAD.
SCORING AND BASES CHAMPIONS
In 2024, I devised two new baseball stats, which I called “Scoring” and “Bases Gained.” I now refer to the latter as “All Bases.”
Scoring is Runs plus Runs Batted In (RBI) minus Home Runs. (The number of home runs is deducted because it’s included in both Runs and RBI totals; subtracting the number once avoids double-counting.)
All Bases is Total Bases (total number of bases reached through hits: home run = 4, triple = 3, double = 2, single = 1) plus Bases on Balls (walks) plus Stolen Bases (steals).
The Scoring Title is likely to go to a great hitter with a high All Bases total, but who is also on a team with other good hitters that get on base for him to drive home, and who can drive him home when he’s on base.
