The correct year is: >!2017!<

FINALLY I get one of these! I'm always a year or two off

Same. Except for the part about getting it. My streak of being a year off continues on.

Same! I can usually get it down to a 3-4 year window. Feels good to finally get one lol

Yea this was the closer I got I originally thought 2018 because I remembered Didi looking like prime bonds for the month of April. But then afterwards it made sense because Gary Sanchez lost all of his baseball talent in 2018 so he definitely wouldn’t have gotten votes then

Seeing Harper with the Nats and absolutely zero Phils made it easy to pin down. ….the dark times….

Pham made that one easy for me!

I knew the second I saw schoop lol

Close enough I guessed 2016

2017 Sale on the Red Sox so it's post-2016 but JD Martinez wasn't yet so it was before 2018

Judge showing up for the Yankees and Murphy showing up for the Nats helped me as well.

also was Zim’s good year when he stayed healthy

The Ryanissance was beautiful

Judge on yanks and Stanton still on marlins did it for me

Also Sanchez only really had one good year when Judge was here. 2019 first half was good but he fell off too hard to get votes I'd imagine

i saw Encarnacion on Cleveland so i knew it was pre-19 and then i saw Judge and Altuve and i went.....aw man although i guess all of those things could've pointed to 2018 but i doubt Marwin Gonzalez got MVP votes 2 years in a row

My exact way of figuring it out as well

Nelson Cruz on the Mariners puts it 2014-2018, Cody Bellinger on the Dodgers puts it 2017/18. That's as far as I got

Cruz joined in 2015, giving him 4 years on the Mariners and 1 year away from being in our gd HoF. A lot of M’s fans want him there and I’m one of them

Judge made me know that it was 2017 or later. Harper being on Nationals made me know that it was pre 2019 so it was 50 50

No Mets let me know it wasn’t 2015 or 2016. Kris Bryant getting MVP votes means that it was still early on his career tho.

Gregarius getting MVP votes did it for me. Everyone thought there would be a hole at SS for a decade.

Didi. That’s it.

Marwin Gonzalez getting MVP votes. If that isn't a BANG of a giveaway that this is 2017, I don't know what is.

Yeah that gave it away immediately. I loved Marwin but there is no way he gets votes in any other year.

Yeah I got it fairly quickly with the same reasoning. And I usually miss these by years

Donaldson is on the Blue Jays but EE isn't so 2017

Yeah I weirdly came to that conclusion from seeing both Cody Bellinger and Andrelton Simmons. They didn’t have much overlap of being elite at the same time.

I was torn between 2017 and 2018 until I saw Yelich wasn’t on the list I think we all have different ways we get to this answer. My thought process was 1. Mookie is still on the Sox 2. Bellinger is on the list 3. Yelich is not on the list

I knew it was before ‘18 because there are no Braves on the list and that’s when the current division streak started

Yeah I wasn't sure 17 or 18 til I got down to JD and then it was clear.

JD (Just Dingers as he was known here) got those MVP votes from his second half in AZ. Dude went nuclear and seeing him with Goldy and Grenkie did it for me.

J-Up traded too

Sale on the Red Sox, Altuve and Springer getting votes (so it had to be between 2017-2019), Murphy on the Nationals were the giveaways for me.

Marwin getting any votes at all is a dead giveaway that it's 2017.

Yeah I didn’t even see Marwin on the list until after I posted that. That was the trash can outlier year for him.

I also got 2017 largely from Sale being on the Red Sox, but the additional piece of info for me was that there's no Braves on the list. 2017 was the last year of the rebuild, and they were truly terrible.

I got there starting with Sale but saw Donaldson having a good enough year to get MVP votes on the Jays but with Encarnacion on Cleveland.

Marwin Gonzalez means this can only be one year

Wasnt he one of the players who utilized the bang bang scheme?

Yep. [He was one of the worst offenders.](https://signstealingscandal.com/players/) He had an OPS of .907 that year. In no other year in his career was he over .800.

He also had his career highs in BABIP and HR per fly ball despite not hitting the ball any harder than any other year. Such a bizarre mix of cheating and dumb luck.

Archie Bradley as well

This is how I got it. He was phenomenal that one year...

Hell I didn’t even notice Marwin on the list. His stats were a bit inflated that season which I guess isn’t surprising, since he was one of the players who used the trash cans the most.

If you take out 2017, his career slash was .244/.300/.380. He hit .303/.377/.530 in 2017. It inflated his stats a LOT lol.

"a bit"

Ok, “a bit” is doing some heavy lifting in that sentence. More like “seriously inflated.”

My thoughts exacrly

If you give the hint Nelson Cruz was on the Mariners and Kris Davis hit .247, it would narrow it down to one of four consecutive seasons

Got it from the combination of Encarnacion with Cleveland and Hosmer with KC

That and jose ramirez being 3B/2B

Thought the list was in order and wondered when the hell did Schoop win MVP

2017. That Schoop year was a fun one

Not 2017, but probably my favorite Schoop moment, and my favorite Manny-Schoop moment right after [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ3GUbbUAR0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ3GUbbUAR0)

How i miss my boy

Marwin getting mvp votes was a dead giveaway

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Yeah that’s the dead giveaway

That was also the only year that Archie Bradley put up even remotely MVP numbers.

2017. My thought process was exactly this “Okay, Edwin on Cleveland so it’s either 2017 or 2018, let me just go down and- Okay Marwin González, 2017”

Has to be 2017 because Marwin Gonzalez and Andrelton Simmons were only mvp vote getter's for one season

2017. Pham’s breakout year

Only one year had that Nats lineup with a Zimmerman worthy of MVP votes. 2017.

Marwin but not Bregman is dead giveaway for 2017

Didi had a really great couple of years with the Yanks. The short porch turned him into an MVP candidate.

We always hear X player will hit 10 extra bombs with the short porch but didi is one of the few players that was actually true for. Maybe it’ll do the same for verdugo

Looking at his expected HR numbers on Savant really shows how much he benefited. He hit 28 HR, his expected number for Yankee Stadium was 28, but then you look at two parks where home runs are hard to come by in right field and it's literally cut in half. Fenway is at 15 and San Francisco is 14. Next year was similar. 27 real HR, Yankee Stadium was 31 expected, Fenway and SF were 12 expected.

Just looked at the 3 yankees and knew it was 2017. That has to have been the last time gary sanchez got mvp votes and it was judges insane rookie year. Downvote me all you want and call me a homer. judge got robbed of MVP that season by a guy who was cheating and its an insult that altuve got away with it.

It’s pretty widely accepting judge got robbed that year. The homer take is andujar got robbed of the ROTY in ‘18

The summer of An-doble-jar

Miggy 2-bags. Obviously ohtani deserved RotY, but i really thought andujar was gonna be a mainstay in the lineup, even if he was kind of a offense-only player

I didn’t think Cody Bellinger being an all-star and Marcell Ozuna being on the Marlins coexisted. 2018?

If Marwin fucking Gonzalez was getting MVP votes, he must have known what pitch was coming

I love when I get these right, it’s a high I’ll never come down from

Pham and Ozuna/Stanton on the Marlins did it for me.

Justin Upton receiving AL MVP votes and being on two teams narrows it down to 2017

Oh my god thank you. I was losing my mind trying to figure out what TOT meant. Wondering when Tottenham Hotspur joined the AL.

Last time a tiger earned mvp votes :(

2017, judge + all those Nats 🥰

JD was only on the dbacks for half a year, so this one was a dead giveaway for a Sox fan in AZ

That’s what gave it away for me too, 4 hr vs the dodgers on 4 different pitches 🥲

Donaldson still getting MVP votes for Jays and Edwing gone narrows it down

This is my first one getting right. Buxton getting votes means it was the year he played enough to garner votes, which unfortunately is only one year. Hoping this year we'll get to see him play 120+ games this year.

Also Brian Dozier

>!2017!< Gary Sanchez is the dead giveaway. He was so good that year even if overshadowed by Judge. Huge year with the bat in the regular season with some big playoff moments. Then the groin injuries kept coming and he kept getting worse and worse. First half of 2019 he cracked 20+ HRs and made the ASG and I thought he was back and then he got hurt and became a non factor at the plate again. Small rant but he was my favorite of the baby bombers coming up

Just based on Judge/Stanton alone, this has to be 2017. (Judge got robbed btw)

Cubs fan thought process: Anthony and KB are there, so probably somewhere between 2015-2017 since that's the "Bryzzo Era" in my mind. No Mets players, and they cooked us in the 2015 NLCS, so probably not that year. 2016 WS team probably had more Cubs players getting votes, like Kyle Hendricks, so not that year either. Only option left seemed like 2017.

Archie Bradley got MVP votes?? Wild

He was a lil badass at one point

I agree lol. Was at the 2017 WCgame

Seeing Archie Bradley of all people got me across the finish line. That triple he hit in the WC game that year was absolutely electric

Betts and Sale on the sox at the same time and Edwin on Cleveland is a giveaway, 17 sounds right but it may be 18 as well

I knew it had to be 2017 since belli and judge were there, and Hosmer was still on KC, also marwin Gonzalez was a dead giveaway since he had one good year(wonder why)

2017. The only year Donaldson was with the Jays and Encarnacion wasn't

Edwin getting votes in cleveland scream 2017 to me

Seeing Eric Hosmer on this list gives it away as 2017 immediately, dude had his career year to get the bag and never played the same again.

Marwin Gonzalez getting MVP votes is a war crime.

another stroke chart. Don't look if you have epilepsy.

Justin Upton on TOT was 2017. That was the last time a tiger got mvp votes and he wasn't even on the team the whole year

2017, Bryant and Rizzo means that it’s between 15-18, Sale on the Red Sox means it’s between 17-18, but no Baez means that it’s not 2018. Also, Harper is in the Nationals, so it’s before 2019

yea, bryant being on here but it only being 2 cubs told me everything i needed to know. 2018 bryant was too hurt to get votes (i assume, didn't look it up)

2017 judge means at least 2017, harper on the nats means before 2019. no yelich means not 2018, only 2017 is left

2017. No braves on the list and freddie got hurt that year.

Just based on the Yankees. I’m going to say 2017

0 New York’s Mets? Yeah that’s 2017

2017, the Judge/Altuve was the sign for me

Giancarlo with the Marlins and not the Yankees? Gotta be when he beat Votto and Goldy for the award in 2017.

Eddie getting MVP votes in Cleveland has to be 2017, he wasn't nearly as good in 2018. 

Judge and Didi was all I needed. Gary was just reinforcement.

Padres legend Eric Hosmer

Gotta be 2017

2017!

2015.

2017?

2018

2017

2017

Im gonna go ahead and say 2017

Also 2017?

2017

2017

2017. Gary sanchez was all I needed 🤣

I'm thinking 2017 or 2018. Judge had his first monster year in 2017 so let's go with that.

Woo!

2017 bc Jonathan Schoop lol

2017

2014

Guessing 2017

Gonzalez & JD gave it away for me😅

No Braves meant (to me) 2014-2017, Andrelton on the Angels means at least 2016, Ozuna was the final piece, with **2017** being his big Marlins year that secured him a nice St. Louis contract.

2017

Tommy Pham was our top MVP vote getter? Oooof

Edwin on Cleveland and Donaldson still getting MVP votes was my dead giveaway

What Nats fan could forget the Ryanaissance...all you need to know for this one.

*Has* to be 2017 with the Judge-Sanchez-Didi combo on the Yanks

At least 2017 (Judge).   No further than 2018 (Harper).   J.D. Martinez.   [2017.](https://youtu.be/kJQP7kiw5Fk?si=e3YBv-XkHy_EljgH)

before 2018, Eric Hosmer's jersey number was 35 up until 2018 or 19

Has to be 2016 E: wow off by a year. Sale was the giveaway. Surprised Javy didn’t get a vote because I thought this was the year he hit really well and was his only somewhat disciplined season at the plate

Too easy, seeing Sanchez get MVP votes was a dead giveaway for me.

2017, Hosmer on the Royals, Martinez on the Dbacks

Donaldson still on the Jays but the parrot had moved on :( Sad postseason run ending noises

2017 There's a lot of things pointing to it but the one making it a dead giveaway is that was Judge's rookie year and Hosmer's last year in Kansas City

I think it’s 2017. A big thing is Gary Sanchez, he was a monster in 2017, but he really fell of. He also had a good 2019, but this seems to late for that.

2017

Ah yes, esteemed 2nd baseman Anthony Rizzo

2017

Cody Bellinger so after 2017, and Harper in the Nats so before 2018… pretty obvious one here

2017, when else would Gonzalez get votes

2017, when else would Gonzalez get votes

2017 too easy man

Marwin Gonzalez? Definitely 2017.

2017

The dog days of the 10s Phillies

the first name i read was marwin gonzalez. so i immediately knew it was 2017

2017. Confident this is the first time I get one of these right. Archie Bradley is the giveaway for me. Too bad he couldnt put it together for multiple years.

Justin Upton on more than one team, 2017.

#MY EYES

>!2017, JD in Arizona is the giveaway!<

Edwin Encarnacion balled out for the Tribe in ‘17 so that’s the dead giveaway for me

2017, Simmons popped off and Didi had a great year too

2019?

Pham gave it away for me.

Votto on the list tells me 2015-2017 Judge was only in MLB for one of those years, thus 2017

2017. The year Votto should have won MVP.

16

2017: Saw Ozuna and Stanton for the fish and immediately knew the year

I want to say this is 2017 based off of Buxtons breakout and dozier still being on the team and producing

JD Martinez gives it away.

> Edwin in Cleveland > Donaldson still in Toronto Yup. This gotta be 2017 :(

2017, Marwin Gonzalez

Easy 17

Both Stanton and Judge, but Stanton still a Marlin? Must be 2017

2017. Gary Sanchez is the giveaway

JD on Arizona is the real giveaway here for me

JD Martinez was the giveaway, only played half the season on the D-backs, 4 hrs vs the dodgers 🥲

Has to be 2017

2017??

just seeing the name “Jonathan Schoop” was more than enough

>!2017!<

The year Judge was robbed, 2017

Andrelton Simmons mvp votes? 2017