AL MVP
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AL CY YOUNG
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AL ROY
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AL MANAGER
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AL RELIEVER
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1
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Mike Trout
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Chris Sale
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Wil Myers
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Joe Maddon
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Greg Holland
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2
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Josh Donaldson
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Max Scherzer
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Jose Iglesias
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Bob Melvin
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Koji Uehara
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3
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Miguel Cabrera
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Yu Darvish
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Danny Farquhar
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Terry Francona
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Joe Nathan
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4
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Chris Davis
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Hisashi Iwakuma
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5
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Evan Longoria
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Felix Hernandez
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6
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Robinson Cano
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7
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Jacoby Ellsbury
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8
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Manny Machado
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9
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Yu Darvish
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10
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Max Scherzer
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NL MVP
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NL CY YOUNG
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NL ROY
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NL MANAGER
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NL RELIEVER
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1
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Andrew McCutchen
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Clayton Kershaw
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Jose Fernandez
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Clint Hurdle
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Kenley Jansen
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2
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Clayton Kershaw
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Adam Wainwright
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Yasiel Puig
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Mike Matheny
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Craig Kimbrel
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3
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Matt Carpenter
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Jose Fernandez
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Hyun-Jin Ryu
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Fredi Gonzalez
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Mark Melancon
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4
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Carlos Gomez
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Matt Harvey
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5
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Joey Votto
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Cliff Lee
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6
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Paul Goldschmidt
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7
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Troy Tulowitzki
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8
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Jose Fernandez
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9
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Yasiel Puig
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10
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Yadier Molina
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That's not to say Sale was unworthy, as I believe Scherzer, Sale, Iwakuma, Darvish, and King Felix all had great cases to be made. I've just changed my mind ever so slightly after some further examination and thought.
The AL Cy Young and NL MVP votes were by far the toughest, as each race had at least 5 excellent candidates you could make a case for.
Oh, and Mike Trout is by far the best and most valuable player in baseball, and he didn't win a major award. There's something fundamentally wrong with that. Unless you truly believe he "didn't do enough to get his team into the postseason," in which case you need help unrelated to baseball.
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In other news, I've updated the Ryan Getzlaf Season Tracker on the right sidebar so that it's aligned with the current 2013-2014 season.
I read your Yahoo articles and have ventured over to this page too and I must say that I am a little bit baffled by your voting on some of these awards. Your whole take seems to be that you are extremely analytical and you have a very intelligent take on the sport because numbers do not lie, and you follow the numbers. No reliance on observations, gut feelings, or personal opinions. Given your take on all things baseball I am surprised that you would pick Jansen as the top National League relief pitcher. This vote, I dare say, borders on a hometown vote. Kimbrel had a better ERA+, WAR, H/9, SO/9, etc. Kenley had a better WHIP and his team did make the playoffs, but surely that's not why you voted him first. Melancon also had a better ERA+ than Jansen too.
ReplyDeleteI am biased in this case, no doubt, but Kenley and Kimbrel were not so far apart that it is on the level of Trout losing to Cabrera.
ReplyDeleteIt's not like I picked Brandon League. :o