When you just take a cursory look at Orlando Cepeda’s .325 batting average, 25 homers and 111 RBI in 1967, you might say the numbers are impressive, but not monstrous. You have to dig deeper into the numbers to come up with ‘monster’ to describe his MVP season for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Yes, Cepeda won the NL MVP award in 1967, but he only led the league in one category, RBI. However, when you look at the other offensive categories in 1967, he finished in the top ten in most of them.
But it’s his offensive splits that make his 1967 year so special and important for the road to the Cardinals eighth World Championship.