A World Series is all about the bling, but oftentimes there isn’t enough hardware to truly capture all the great performances in a series. In honor of those performances worth remembering, we have created fictional awards to honor the most dominant performance that won’t win an MVP and the most surprising performance from a player no one expected to make a significant impact. Our MLB experts made their picks for who would win these “awards” in this World Series, if the awards existed:
Who will win the Barry Bonds Award for unrecognized excellence?
During the 2002 World Series, which famously went to seven games, San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit .471/.700/1.294 (yes, that was his SLG and not his OPS) with four home runs, two doubles and 13 walks. It should have been a redemptive performance for a generational player who up to that point had a reputation, fair or not, for underperforming in October.
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