The Hawk elected

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Originally Posted by Scav

Any player that wins a MVP when he is on the worst team in baseball should get in automatically. If that doesn't tell you how much better he was then anyone at the time, on what some will say one leg, then I don't know what will.

Yeah, except he didn't deserve to win the MVP that year. I still don't understand how the hell he did.
A .328 OBP? For an MVP? That's terrible.
Tony Gwynn's batting average that year was over 40 points higher than Andre Dawson's on-base percentage. That's ridiculous. And Gwynn stole 50+ bases on top of that.
Jack Clark's numbers were also a lot better than Dawson's that year too. He hit for roughly the same average, but drew something like 100 more walks than Dawson while still putting up good power numbers (his OPS was MUCH higher than Dawson's). All Dawson did that year was hit a lot of home runs on a really bad team.
I guess he still probably deserves to be in the HOF though, so congrats to him.