The process continues.

We here are Notinhalloffame.com have plans to create our own set of post-season awards, which we will look back and retroactively present from 1901 on.  That will take a while, but it has never stopped us before!

Our awards are not be league specific.

The first award that we will be giving out is the most important, the MVP, and who else could it be?  It is Los Angeles Angels, Pitcher and Designated Hitter, Shohei Ohtani, who was also the winner of the inaugural NIHOF Baseball Cup.

Not since Babe Ruth, have we ever seen a dominant hitter who was an upper-echelon Pitcher.  On the mound, Ohtani was the ace of the Angels staff, posting a 9-2 record with a 3.18 ERA, 156 Strikeouts and a WHIP of 1.090 over 130.1 Innings.  

Ohtani’s bat was nothing short of electric in 2021.  The native of Japan smacked 46 Home Runs, 100 RBI, and had a Slash Line of .257/.372/.592.  He led the American League in Triples (8) and Power/Speed # (33.2), while also finishing first in the AL in bWAR (9.0) and Win Probability Added (5.1).

Congratulations to Shohei Ohtani for becoming our first ever announced MVP.

The trophy is in our home office of Speightstown, Barbados and is wating for you!

Pre-2021-22 Rank: #47, Pre-2022-23 Rank: #43, Pre-2023-24: #40

Peak Period: From 2016-17 to 2023-24.

Every team wants a player like Jrue Holiday.

Jrue Holiday was an All-Star in 2013 (his last season in Philadelphia), and it took another ten, which coincidentally was his last year in Milwaukee, to earn a second trip.  In between, Holiday joined a particular group that won an NBA Championship (with Milwaukee) and an Olympic Gold Medal (with the United States) in the same year.  

How do you top that?

You do it again.

Last season, his first in Boston, Holiday played a substantial role in the Celtic’s record-breaking 18^th Title, and months later, he again won Gold for the United States. 

Holiday may never be a superstar, but he is one of the most coveted roster players of the last ten years.  That could be worth a look from the powers that be in Springfield.

A former MAC Defensive Player of the Year as a Defensive Lineman at Kent State, Roosevelt Nix converted to Fullback in hopes for a chance in the National Football League.  It worked, but it took a while.

Nix was not invited to the Combine, but was invited to the Atlanta Falcons in 2014 after going undrafted.  He didn’t make the team, but the Steelers gave him a look the following year, and Nix would have a five-year career in Pittsburgh, where he played 60 Games, and was a pure Fullback, one of the few in the NFL.  

Nix will never be considered for the Hall of Fame, but the fact that he made it to the NFL for five years based on revising his skillset is worth celebrating.

Demaryius Thomas was a 2010 1^st Round Pick who struggled as a rookie and in his second pro season due to injuries, but he was healthy in his third year where he showed off over the next five years what was expected of him.  Thomas went to the Pro Bowl in 2012 with a 1,434 Years and 10 Touchdown season, and in 2013 he had similar yardage (1,430) with a career-high 14 Touchdowns.  It was another Pro Bowl year, and he would set a then record 13 Receptions in their Super Bowl loss to the Seattle Seahawks.  

2014 would see him go to his third Pro Bowl with career highs of 111 Receptions and 1,619 Receiving Yards, but it was 2015, a season where he was not chosen for the Pro Bowl (but still hit 1,304 Receiving Yards) where he won the Super Bowl.  Thomas had his last Pro Bowl in 2016 with his final four digit Receiving Yard campaign.  Before he was traded to the Houston Texans midway through the 2018 season, he finished his career at Mile High with 9,055 Yards for 60 TDs.