{"id":28702,"date":"2023-12-28T00:58:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T07:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=28702"},"modified":"2023-12-27T18:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T01:18:55","slug":"put-dale-murphy-in-the-hall-of-fame-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2023\/12\/put-dale-murphy-in-the-hall-of-fame-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Dale Murphy in the Hall of Fame already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28703\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/17N_7953-RAW-atlanta-braves-mvp-DeNoiseAI-standard.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28703\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/17N_7953-RAW-atlanta-braves-mvp-DeNoiseAI-standard.jpg\" alt=\"atlanta braves mvp\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atlanta Braves MVPs (as of 2017)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@DaleMurphy3 @Braves \u200f@baseball_80s<\/p>\n<p>I took this photo (in SunTrust Park, now known as Truist Park) just six years ago, but the Braves have won two more MVPs since then (Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. this year and Freddie Freeman in 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Dale Murphy was a league MVP twice. Given that he isn&#8217;t in the Hall of Fame, you&#8217;d think that the rest of his career was mediocre or something. In fact, he finished in the top 12 in MVP voting four other seasons. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/murphda05.shtml\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">this site<\/a>, not only does he have better stats than the worst of the members already in the Hall of Fame, he has better stats than the <b>average<\/b> Hall of Fame member.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s inductees were Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff. <b>Combined<\/b> they won zero MVPs and finished in the top 12 in MVP voting five times&#8211;one less than Murph by himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@DaleMurphy3 @Braves \u200f@baseball_80s I took this photo (in SunTrust Park, now known as Truist Park) just six years ago, but the Braves have won two more MVPs since then (Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. this year and Freddie Freeman in 2020). Dale Murphy was a league MVP twice. Given that he isn&#8217;t in the Hall of Fame, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[742,82,735,447,594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28707,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28702\/revisions\/28707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}