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MLB Deep Cut #38, Saturday, October 31: “Name a World Series MVP.” The prompt had 69 valid answers, and nobody played it that day. Correct answers score more the fewer people name them, so the deepest cuts are the ones worth the most.
Answers and recap (spoilers)
Nobody named
- Reggie Jackson: Won in 1973, 1977
- Pete Rose: Won in 1975
- Derek Jeter: Won in 2000
- Brooks Robinson: Won in 1970
- Frank Robinson: Won in 1966
- Paul Molitor: Won in 1993
- David Ortiz: Won in 2013
- Manny Ramirez: Won in 2004
- Mike Schmidt: Won in 1980
- Roberto Clemente: Won in 1971
- Willie Stargell: Won in 1979
- Freddie Freeman: Won in 2024
- Edgar Renteria: Won in 2010
- Alan Trammell: Won in 1984
- Johnny Bench: Won in 1976
- Ron Cey: Won in 1981
- Corey Seager: Won in 2020, 2023
- Jermaine Dye: Won in 2005
- Darrell Porter: Won in 1982
- Ben Zobrist: Won in 2016
- Rick Dempsey: Won in 1983
- Salvador Perez: Won in 2015
- George Springer: Won in 2017
- Mike Lowell: Won in 2007
- Gene Tenace: Won in 1972
- Pedro Guerrero: Won in 1981
- Troy Glaus: Won in 2002
- Bobby Richardson: Won in 1960
- Ray Knight: Won in 1986
- Pablo Sandoval: Won in 2012
- Mariano Rivera: Won in 1999
- Bucky Dent: Won in 1978
- David Eckstein: Won in 2006
- Hideki Matsui: Won in 2009
- David Freese: Won in 2011
- Steve Yeager: Won in 1981
- Scott Brosius: Won in 1998
- Donn Clendenon: Won in 1969
- Pat Borders: Won in 1992
- Jorge Soler: Won in 2021
- Rollie Fingers: Won in 1974
- Bob Gibson: Won in 1964, 1967
- Tom Glavine: Won in 1995
- Steve Pearce: Won in 2018
- Randy Johnson: Won in 2001
- Lew Burdette: Won in 1957
- John Wetteland: Won in 1996
- Jeremy Pena: Won in 2022
- Curt Schilling: Won in 2001
- Jack Morris: Won in 1991
- Mickey Lolich: Won in 1968
- Dave Stewart: Won in 1989
- Orel Hershiser: Won in 1988
- Sandy Koufax: Won in 1963, 1965
- Whitey Ford: Won in 1961
- Livan Hernandez: Won in 1997
- Don Larsen: Won in 1956
- Cole Hamels: Won in 2008
- Johnny Podres: Won in 1955
- Madison Bumgarner: Won in 2014
- Bret Saberhagen: Won in 1985
- Frank Viola: Won in 1987
- Larry Sherry: Won in 1959
- Jose Rijo: Won in 1990
- Josh Beckett: Won in 2003
- Ralph Terry: Won in 1962
- Bob Turley: Won in 1958
- Stephen Strasburg: Won in 2019
- Yoshinobu Yamamoto: Won in 2025
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