The Honors Are All Ours 2019

[Guest 41Forever]

In breathlessly awaited awards news, Pete Alonso has been named Faith and Fear in Flushing's Richie Ashburn Most Valuable Met for 2019. http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/11/12/infinitely-polar-bear/http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/11/12/infinitely-polar-bear/

Was it a unanimous vote?

[G-Fafif]

In breathlessly awaited awards news, Pete Alonso has been named Faith and Fear in Flushing's Richie Ashburn Most Valuable Met for 2019. http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/11/12/infinitely-polar-bear/http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/11/12/infinitely-polar-bear/ Was it a unanimous vote?

It always is.

[LWFS]

In all fairness to Mr. Baggarly... Mike Soroka WAS really, rilly, rully good. And you could argue-- https://theathletic.com/1367983/2019/11/11/hi-mets-fans-please-dont-hate-me-for-voting-mike-soroka-over-pete-alonso-for-nl-rookie-of-the-year/as Baggarly does, sorta-- that Soroka's primary skill (suppressing HRs) is a rarer thing in this league/environment.

[G-Fafif]

Jacob deGrom, 2019 NL Cy Young Award winner. 29 of 30 first-place votes.

[LWFS]

SMOKE OUT THE HO'DOUT

[kcmets]

Again with the 29? Who this time??

[G-Fafif]

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Again with the 29? Who this time??

[Edgy MD]

Mickey Callawutz may have been sent packing, but he leaves town having had one of his players — as manager and pitching coach — win the Cy Young each of the last three years.



Almost four!

[G-Fafif]

The canned statements following both Pete's and Jake's honors came exclusively from J. Wilpon and B. Van Wagenen. No managerial boilerplate, neither from the new guy spouting superlatives in anticipation of taking the wheel nor the last guy who actually did the managing.



No Mgr of the Year votes in '18 or '19, but as a manager of individuals if not games, Callaway wasn't the worst.

[Guest 41Forever]

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No Mgr of the Year votes in '18 or '19, but as a manager of individuals if not games, Callaway wasn't the worst.

[G-Fafif]

Pete finishes 7th in NL MVP voting, Jake 10th.

[G-Fafif]

Alonso named on 29 ballots, deGrom on 11. Fifth place was highest rank for either of them.

[G-Fafif]

ESPN's Jeff Passan convened a panel of 68 media members to pick an All-MLB team -- first, second and third teams, actually -- for 2019. Pete Alonso and Jacob deGrom were near-unanimous picks for first team at first base and starting rotation, respectively. Seth Lugo made the second team bullpen.

[G-Fafif]

Faith and Fear's prestigious Nikon Camera Player of the Year award goes to Our Kids, for the youthful core of 2019 delivering, at last, on the promise of a newspaper ad from 1977.



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Pete—24 Amed—23 J.D. — 26 Jeff—27 Michael—26 Dom—24 Brandon—26 Together, this cluster of seven position players generated an energy and emitted an aura that made rooting for the Mets fun for fans of all ages. One great big clusterfun. Funny thing is I don't think we even realized we are were on the tipping point of a youth movement as 2019 approached. Sure, the game was getting younger and perhaps cheaper from the perspective of clever front offices everywhere; youth was definitely being served, service time manipulation notwithstanding. And sure, our talent pool included three former No. 1 picks; a former prospect who had only a couple of years earlier landed in the upper echelon of everybody's projections; a slugger who led the minor leagues in homers the year before; an infielder who batted .329 in an extended audition upon his late-July 2018 callup; and a castoff from an organization that mostly developed studs. With hindsight, the pieces were there. It just hadn't occurred to us to put them together in advance. It probably hadn't occurred to the Mets, either. By the end of the season, they were the Mets more than any Mets were.

Relive the youthful exuberance http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/11/25/the-youthful-exuberance-of-2019/here

[MFS62]

Nice.

Thanks.

Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That ad copy is pretty remarkable

[MFS62]

The NYPost NY athlete of the decade is:

https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/mets-jacob-degrom-is-the-posts-ny-athlete-of-the-decade/https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/mets-jacob-degrom-is-the-posts-ny-athlete-of-the-decade/



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