Atlanta Braves Mount Rushmore Runoff Election |

The Mount Rushmore election for the Atlanta Braves closed yesterday (Dec 17th) with Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn and Chipper Jones taking the top 3 spots. But, Eddie Mathews and Greg Maddux finished tied for the fourth and final Mount Rushmore spot.

This run-off election will decide the fourth player on the Braves’ Mount Rushmore. To participate, please cast one vote for either candidate. The election closes at midnight (24:00) Pacific time on Mon, Dec 22nd.

Here is the season-by-season statistical story for our two candidates.

Eddie Mathews

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	Pos	Awards
1952	20	BSN	NL	145	593	528	80	128	23	5	25	58	59	*115*	.242	.320	.447	.767	113	*5	MVP-21,RoY-3
1953 ★	21	MLN	NL	157	681	579	110	175	31	8	47	135	99	83	.302	.406	.627	1.033	171	*5	AS,MVP-2
1954	22	MLN	NL	138	600	476	96	138	21	4	40	103	113	61	.290	.423	.603	1.026	172	*57	MVP-19
1955 ★	23	MLN	NL	141	616	499	108	144	23	5	41	101	109	98	.289	.413	.601	1.014	170	*5	AS,MVP-18
1956 ★	24	MLN	NL	151	651	552	103	150	21	2	37	95	91	86	.272	.373	.518	.892	143	*5	AS
1957 ★	25	MLN	NL	148	666	572	109	167	28	9	32	94	90	79	.292	.387	.540	.927	154	*5	AS,MVP-8
1958 ★	26	MLN	NL	149	649	546	97	137	18	1	31	77	85	85	.251	.349	.458	.807	120	*5	AS
1959 ★	27	MLN	NL	148	682	594	118	182	16	8	46	114	80	71	.306	.390	.593	.983	168	*5	AS,MVP-2
1960 ★	28	MLN	NL	153	671	548	108	152	19	7	39	124	111	113	.277	.397	.551	.948	166	*5	AS,MVP-10
1961 ★	29	MLN	NL	152	672	572	103	175	23	6	32	91	93	95	.306	.402	.535	.937	156	*5	AS,MVP-17
1962 ★	30	MLN	NL	152	643	536	106	142	25	6	29	90	101	90	.265	.381	.496	.877	137	*5/3	AS,MVP-29
1963	31	MLN	NL	158	675	547	82	144	27	4	23	84	*124*	119	.263	.399	.453	.852	146	*57
1964	32	MLN	NL	141	590	502	83	117	19	1	23	74	85	100	.233	.344	.412	.756	112	*5/3
1965	33	MLN	NL	156	626	546	77	137	23	0	32	95	73	110	.251	.341	.469	.810	126	*5	MVP-20
1966	34	ATL	NL	134	517	452	72	113	21	4	16	53	63	82	.250	.341	.420	.761	108	*5
1967	35	TOT	MLB	137	511	436	53	103	16	2	16	57	63	88	.236	.333	.392	.725	111	35
1967	35	HOU	NL	101	383	328	39	78	13	2	10	38	48	65	.238	.333	.381	.714	108	35
1967	35	DET	AL	36	128	108	14	25	3	0	6	19	15	23	.231	.331	.426	.757	120	53
1968	36	DET	AL	31	57	52	4	11	0	0	3	8	5	12	.212	.281	.385	.665	98	/35
17 Yrs				2391	10100	8537	1509	2315	354	72	512	1453	1444	1487	.271	.376	.509	.885	143
162 Game Avg.				162	684	578	102	157	24	5	35	98	98	101	.271	.376	.509	.885	143
				G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	Pos	Awards
ATL (15 yrs)				2223	9532	8049	1452	2201	338	70	493	1388	1376	1387	.273	.379	.517	.896	145
DET (2 yrs)				67	185	160	18	36	3	0	9	27	20	35	.225	.315	.413	.728	113
HOU (1 yr)				101	383	328	39	78	13	2	10	38	48	65	.238	.333	.381	.714	108

NL (16 yrs)				2324	9915	8377	1491	2279	351	72	503	1426	1424	1452	.272	.377	.511	.888	144
AL (2 yrs)				67	185	160	18	36	3	0	9	27	20	35	.225	.315	.413	.728	113

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 12/18/2014.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	RAR	WAR	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Pos	Awards
1952	20	BSN	NL	145	593	7	-0	0	-7	0	0	0.0	23	2.3	3.1	-0.8	30	*5	MVP-21,RoY-3
1953 ★	21	MLN	NL	157	681	56	-0	2	3	1	62	5.8	88	8.3	8.2	0.3	85	*5	AS,MVP-2
1954	22	MLN	NL	138	600	53	1	0	3	0	58	5.6	80	7.8	7.7	0.2	77	*57	MVP-19
1955 ★	23	MLN	NL	141	616	49	-1	1	4	1	53	5.0	76	7.3	7.2	0.2	72	*5	AS,MVP-18
1956 ★	24	MLN	NL	151	651	32	2	2	-2	1	34	3.2	58	5.7	6.4	-0.4	61	*5	AS
1957 ★	25	MLN	NL	148	666	42	0	3	3	2	50	5.0	74	7.4	7.3	0.4	71	*5	AS,MVP-8
1958 ★	26	MLN	NL	149	649	17	3	1	16	2	40	4.0	63	6.4	4.9	1.9	47	*5	AS
1959 ★	27	MLN	NL	148	682	57	-2	1	-2	3	57	5.8	80	8.2	8.5	0.1	83	*5	AS,MVP-2
1960 ★	28	MLN	NL	153	671	48	1	0	-5	3	47	4.8	72	7.3	8.0	-0.3	77	*5	AS,MVP-10
1961 ★	29	MLN	NL	152	672	47	-2	2	-1	3	48	4.8	73	7.2	7.4	0.2	74	*5	AS,MVP-17
1962 ★	30	MLN	NL	152	643	27	-2	1	1	3	30	3.2	55	5.6	5.4	0.5	53	*5/3	AS,MVP-29
1963	31	MLN	NL	158	675	33	-2	0	14	0	45	5.3	70	8.0	6.2	1.8	56	*57
1964	32	MLN	NL	141	590	8	2	1	5	2	19	2.2	41	4.6	3.8	1.0	36	*5/3
1965	33	MLN	NL	156	626	20	1	-0	3	3	27	3.0	51	5.4	5.1	0.7	47	*5	MVP-20
1966	34	ATL	NL	134	517	3	-0	1	1	2	6	0.8	25	2.7	2.5	0.4	24	*5
1967	35	HOU	NL	101	383	2	0	1	-4	-4	-5	-0.5	9	0.9	1.3	-0.8	13	35
1967	35	DET	AL	36	128	3	0	0	0	-0	4	0.4	8	0.9	0.9	-0.0	8	53
1968	36	DET	AL	31	57	-1	-0	0	1	-0	0	0.0	2	0.2	0.1	0.1	1	/35
17 Seasons				2391	10100	505	0	18	33	21	578	58.6	949	96.4	93.8	5.5	916
			Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	RAR	WAR	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Pos	Awards
ATL (15 yrs)				2223	9532	501	-0	16	35	26	578	58.6	929	94.3	91.6	6.3	894
DET (2 yrs)				67	185	3	0	0	2	-1	5	0.5	11	1.1	0.9	0.1	9
HOU (1 yr)				101	383	2	0	1	-4	-4	-5	-0.5	9	0.9	1.3	-0.8	13

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Generated 12/18/2014.

Greg Maddux

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	IP	BB	SO	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W	Awards
1986	20	CHC	NL	2	4	.333	5.52	6	5	1	0	31.0	11	20	74	3.90	1.774	12.8	0.9	3.2	5.8	1.82
1987	21	CHC	NL	6	14	.300	5.61	30	27	1	1	155.2	74	101	76	4.50	1.638	10.5	1.0	4.3	5.8	1.36
1988 ★	22	CHC	NL	18	8	.692	3.18	34	34	9	3	249.0	81	140	114	3.41	1.249	8.3	0.5	2.9	5.1	1.73	AS
1989	23	CHC	NL	19	12	.613	2.95	35	35	7	1	238.1	82	135	129	3.45	1.276	8.4	0.5	3.1	5.1	1.65	CYA-3
1990	24	CHC	NL	15	15	.500	3.46	35	35	8	2	237.0	71	144	119	3.15	1.321	9.2	0.4	2.7	5.5	2.03	GG
1991	25	CHC	NL	15	11	.577	3.35	37	37	7	2	263.0	66	198	116	3.06	1.133	7.9	0.6	2.3	6.8	3.00	GG
1992 ★	26	CHC	NL	20	11	.645	2.18	35	35	9	4	*268.0*	70	199	166	2.58	1.011	6.8	*0.2*	2.4	6.7	2.84	AS,CYA-1,MVP-11,GG
1993	27	ATL	NL	20	10	.667	*2.36*	36	36	8	1	*267.0*	52	197	170	*2.85*	*1.049*	7.7	0.5	1.8	6.6	3.79	CYA-1,MVP-13,GG
1994 ★	28	ATL	NL	16	6	.727	*1.56*	25	25	10	3	*202.0*	31	156	*271*	*2.39*	*0.896*	6.7	*0.2*	1.4	7.0	5.03	AS,CYA-1,MVP-5,GG
1995 ★	29	ATL	NL	19	2	*.905*	*1.63*	28	28	10	3	209.2	23	181	*260*	2.26	*0.811*	6.3	*0.3*	*1.0*	7.8	*7.87*	AS,CYA-1,MVP-3,GG
1996 ★	30	ATL	NL	15	11	.577	2.72	35	35	5	1	245.0	28	172	162	2.73	1.033	8.3	0.4	*1.0*	6.3	*6.14*	AS,CYA-5,GG
1997 ★	31	ATL	NL	19	4	.826	2.20	33	33	5	2	232.2	20	177	189	2.43	0.946	7.7	0.3	*0.8*	6.8	*8.85*	AS,CYA-2,MVP-12,GG
1998 ★	32	ATL	NL	18	9	.667	*2.22*	34	34	9	5	251.0	45	204	*187*	2.81	*0.980*	7.2	0.5	1.6	7.3	4.53	AS,CYA-4,GG
1999	33	ATL	NL	19	9	.679	3.57	33	33	4	0	219.1	37	136	126	3.40	1.345	10.6	0.7	1.5	5.6	3.68	GG
2000 ★	34	ATL	NL	19	9	.679	3.00	35	35	6	3	249.1	42	190	153	3.23	1.071	8.1	0.7	1.5	6.9	4.52	AS,CYA-3,MVP-12,GG
2001	35	ATL	NL	17	11	.607	3.05	34	34	3	3	233.0	27	173	146	3.12	1.060	8.5	0.8	1.0	6.7	6.41	GG
2002	36	ATL	NL	16	6	.727	2.62	34	34	0	0	199.1	45	118	159	3.43	1.199	8.8	0.6	2.0	5.3	2.62	GG
2003	37	ATL	NL	16	11	.593	3.96	36	36	1	0	218.1	33	124	108	3.89	1.182	9.3	1.0	1.4	5.1	3.76
2004	38	CHC	NL	16	11	.593	4.02	33	33	2	1	212.2	33	151	110	4.36	1.180	9.2	1.5	1.4	6.4	4.58	GG
2005	39	CHC	NL	13	15	.464	4.24	35	35	3	0	225.0	36	136	104	4.06	1.222	9.6	1.2	1.4	5.4	3.78	GG
2006	40	TOT	NL	15	14	.517	4.20	34	34	0	0	210.0	37	117	109	3.80	1.219	9.4	0.9	1.6	5.0	3.16	GG
2006	40	CHC	NL	9	11	.450	4.69	22	22	0	0	136.1	23	81	99	3.80	1.291	10.1	0.9	1.5	5.3	3.52
2006	40	LAD	NL	6	3	.667	3.30	12	12	0	0	73.2	14	36	137	3.80	1.086	8.1	0.7	1.7	4.4	2.57
2007	41	SDP	NL	14	11	.560	4.14	34	34	1	0	198.0	25	104	97	3.58	1.242	10.0	0.6	*1.1*	4.7	4.16	GG
2008	42	TOT	NL	8	13	.381	4.22	33	33	0	0	194.0	30	98	92	4.09	1.206	9.5	1.0	1.4	4.5	3.27	GG
2008	42	SDP	NL	6	9	.400	3.99	26	26	0	0	153.1	26	80	95	4.05	1.220	9.5	0.9	1.5	4.7	3.08
2008	42	LAD	NL	2	4	.333	5.09	7	7	0	0	40.2	4	18	83	4.21	1.156	9.5	1.1	0.9	4.0	4.50
23 Yrs				355	227	.610	3.16	744	740	109	35	5008.1	999	3371	132	3.26	1.143	8.5	0.6	1.8	6.1	3.37
162 Game Avg.				16	10	.610	3.16	34	34	5	2	229	46	154	132	3.26	1.143	8.5	0.6	1.8	6.1	3.37
				W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	IP	BB	SO	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W	Awards
ATL (11 yrs)				194	88	.688	2.63	363	363	61	21	2526.2	383	1828	163	2.95	1.051	8.1	0.5	1.4	6.5	4.77
CHC (10 yrs)				133	112	.543	3.61	302	298	47	14	2016.0	547	1305	112	3.52	1.245	8.8	0.7	2.4	5.8	2.39
LAD (2 yrs)				8	7	.533	3.94	19	19	0	0	114.1	18	54	112	3.95	1.111	8.6	0.9	1.4	4.3	3.00
SDP (2 yrs)				20	20	.500	4.07	60	60	1	0	351.1	51	184	96	3.78	1.232	9.8	0.8	1.3	4.7	3.61

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 12/18/2014.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Awards
1986	20	CHC	NL	31.0	6	5	20	5.81	5.23	-2	-0.2	0.0	1	.461	.499
1987	21	CHC	NL	155.2	30	27	111	6.42	5.42	-19	-1.8	-0.4	-3	.439	.489
1988 ★	22	CHC	NL	249.0	34	34	97	3.51	4.43	24	3.0	5.2	46	.588	.518	AS
1989	23	CHC	NL	238.1	35	35	90	3.40	4.38	25	3.1	5.0	44	.589	.519	CYA-3
1990	24	CHC	NL	237.0	35	35	116	4.41	5.24	18	2.0	4.0	42	.558	.513	GG
1991	25	CHC	NL	263.0	37	37	113	3.87	4.34	12	1.3	3.5	35	.536	.508	GG
1992 ★	26	CHC	NL	268.0	35	35	68	2.28	4.16	55	7.2	9.2	75	.705	.544	AS,CYA-1,MVP-11,GG
1993	27	ATL	NL	267.0	36	36	85	2.87	4.17	34	3.7	5.8	61	.604	.523	CYA-1,MVP-13,GG
1994 ★	28	ATL	NL	202.0	25	25	44	1.96	4.69	60	7.0	8.5	79	.778	.543	AS,CYA-1,MVP-5,GG
1995 ★	29	ATL	NL	209.2	28	28	39	1.67	4.77	69	8.1	9.7	90	.790	.550	AS,CYA-1,MVP-3,GG
1996 ★	30	ATL	NL	245.0	35	35	85	3.12	4.81	47	5.2	7.1	67	.649	.532	AS,CYA-5,GG
1997 ★	31	ATL	NL	232.2	33	33	58	2.24	4.30	53	6.0	7.8	73	.682	.537	AS,CYA-2,MVP-12,GG
1998 ★	32	ATL	NL	251.0	34	34	75	2.69	4.17	41	4.6	6.6	63	.636	.528	AS,CYA-4,GG
1999	33	ATL	NL	219.1	33	33	103	4.23	4.86	15	1.5	3.2	36	.544	.509	GG
2000 ★	34	ATL	NL	249.1	35	35	91	3.28	4.91	44	4.6	6.6	69	.631	.528	AS,CYA-3,MVP-12,GG
2001	35	ATL	NL	233.0	34	34	86	3.32	4.52	30	3.2	5.1	52	.595	.520	GG
2002	36	ATL	NL	199.1	34	34	67	3.03	4.21	25	2.8	4.4	43	.582	.517	GG
2003	37	ATL	NL	218.1	36	36	112	4.62	4.50	-4	-0.4	1.3	16	.490	.498
2004	38	CHC	NL	212.2	33	33	103	4.36	5.03	14	1.5	3.2	35	.546	.509	GG
2005	39	CHC	NL	225.0	35	35	112	4.48	4.90	10	1.1	2.8	30	.530	.507	GG
2006	40	CHC	NL	136.1	22	22	78	5.15	5.28	2	0.2	1.3	15	.511	.501	GG
2006	40	LAD	NL	73.2	12	12	31	3.79	5.19	12	1.2	1.8	18	.602	.508	GG
2007	41	SDP	NL	198.0	34	34	92	4.18	4.59	10	1.0	2.6	27	.530	.506	GG
2008	42	SDP	NL	153.1	26	26	80	4.70	4.29	-6	-0.6	0.6	6	.476	.496	GG
2008	42	LAD	NL	40.2	7	7	25	5.53	4.45	-5	-0.4	-0.1	-1	.436	.497	GG
23 Seasons				5008.1	744	740	1981	3.56	4.62	567	64.9	104.6	1018	.587	.518
			Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Awards
ATL (11 yrs)				2526.2	363	363	845	3.01	4.53	415	46.3	66.0	650	.628	.525
CHC (10 yrs)				2016.0	302	298	908	4.05	4.73	140	17.4	33.8	318	.558	.513
LAD (2 yrs)				114.1	19	19	56	4.41	4.93	7	0.8	1.7	17	.541	.504
SDP (2 yrs)				351.1	60	60	172	4.41	4.46	4	0.4	3.1	33	.507	.502

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 12/18/2014.

Now it’s your turn. Select one player for the Braves’ final Rushmore spot. If the ballot does not display in your browser, you can also vote here.

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John Autin

9 years ago

I chose Maddux — not on stats, but just for narrative balance. A Bravos Rushmore of Aaron & Spahn, Chipper & Maddux would have the best position player and best pitcher from each of the team’s best eras. Mathews may be more deserving in a purely head-to-head comparison. He owns 8 of the team’s 36 modern 7-WAR seasons; Aaron had 13, and Chipper’s three ranks third. It won’t seem right to “carve” Chipper and not Mathews. And comparing Maddux’s 11 Braves years against Mathews’s best 11-year run, both ranked 3rd in MLB WAR, trailing only icons (Willie & Mickey, Unit… Read more »

Hartvig

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What he said☝☝☝☝

(just to be clear, that finger sticking up is the INDEX finger…)

Reply to Hartvig

Geez, I just cast my vote and saw the current results.

23 votes for Maddux & 23 votes for Mathews

How do you have a runoff election for a runoff election?

Voomo Zanzibar

I vote to remove Chipper and elect Kid Nichols.
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Alright alright…
Between 1955 and 1962,
when Mathews did most of his damage at the plate, he primarily batted 3rd.

The guy who batted 4th we’ve already elected.

I vote Maddux.
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Mathews batting 3rd, by year.

Aaron batting 4th, by year.

Reply to Voomo Zanzibar

Those links don’t work. They were’ perma-links for Aaron and Mathews’ yearly batting orders. Dunno wha’happened.

Voomo, I fixed your links. Seems that they wrapped across two lines in a text browser, and the link was assigned only to the pre-wrap text. I hope I read your intentions correctly.

Excellent. Thank you.

dr. remulak

Matthews. Maddux spent too many seasons in other uniforms.

oneblankspace

Reply to dr. remulak

Maddux was a Brave for 50.45% of his career IP.
Mathews was a Brave for 94.38% of his career IP.

Maddux played for the Chicago Cubs, the Atlanta Braves, and the Chicago Cubs.
Mathews played for the Boston Braves, the Milwaukee Braves, and the Atlanta Braves.

Reply to oneblankspace

Mathews was a Brave for 94.38% of his career PA. He was not a pitcher. D’oh!

BillH

Matthews. Maddux is part Cub, part Brave.

Steven

Voted for Mathews.

John

Tried to cast 1/2 vote for Matthews, and 1/2 vote for Maddux. Didn’t work. So I asked my wife, the Braves fan She said Maddux. I said I wanted to vote for a 2-headed monster, Matthux. She said Maddux. So I voted for Maddux. Check the results. A perfect 24-24 split. I don’t envy you guys one bit!

PaulE

Mathews.
If Maddux had retired in 1968with the same great record, I don’t believe he would have been considered the superior of Walter Johnson, Alexander, or Mathewson, or even Cy Young. However, Mathews was greater than all 3b untilSchmidt came along. Mathews’ superior positional ranking wins out for me. Plus, Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta….and, Maddux came through the Cubs chain

and, he was better than Chipper, too 🙁

bells

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I think it’s a bit inaccurate to present a ‘positional’ comparison between a 3B and a pitcher as an apples to apples kind of thing; there are many more pitchers in baseball than third baseman. Perhaps it’d be more appropriate to ask how Mathews compares to other infielders before him, if you really want comparable numbers, although that is unsatisfying for other reasons. Either way, I didn’t vote for either of these guys the first time around, as I voted for the top 3 and Kid Nichols. But I felt less bad about not voting for Maddux, just due to… Read more »

Reply to bells

bells: Good point on the positional comparison. For the sake of brevity, I used BR WAR from 1893 forward: If we compare Maddux to all RH pitchers, his career WAR of 104.6 places him 6th through 2014; however, he’d be 4th through 1969. If we compare him to all pitchers, through 1969 he’s 5th, and 7th through 2014 Mathews, when compared to all infielders, places 10th through 2014 and 6th through 1969 in WAR. Mathews doesn’t suffer too badly here. Hey, I could have voted for Rico Carty An interesting item: Pedro Martinez accumulated approximately 83% of the WAR Maddux… Read more »

Maddux over Chipper for sure. But much as I hate to do it, it’s Eddie Lee over Maddux. Tough decision though.

Reply to PP

Of course Jones will probably be a 1st ballot HOFer in 2020 (?) while it took Mathews 5 tries to get in. No respect for Eddie except from advanced stats: JAWS has him the #2 3B.