Joe Mauer, your AL MVP

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Near unanimous. A Japanese writer cast a first-place vote for Miguel Cabrera.

Thank goodness Jeter didn't get it!

[dgwphotography]

and there was much rejoicing!

[Frayed Knot]

"A Japanese writer cast a first-place vote for Miguel Cabrera."

Say what?!?
Votes are by BWAA guys associated with each AL city. Is this a guy with a Japanese name or have they expanded their voting these days?



Anyway, here is the top 10.
Votes on MVP actually go to 10 placesbut it gets pretty trivial after a while.

----	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Points
Joe Mauer - Min	27	1	--	--	--	387
Mark Teixeira - MFY	--	15	6	4	1	225
Derek Jeter - MFY	--	9	5	3	5	193
Miguel Cabrera - Det	1	1	5	8	4	171
Kendry Morales - LAA	--	--	3	9	10	170
Kevin Youkilis - Bos	--	2	7	3	4	150
Jason Bay - Bos	--	--	1	1	--	78
Ben Zobrist - TB	--	--	--	--	--	34
Ichiro Suzuki - Sea	--	--	--	--	--	33
Alex Rodriguez - MFY	--	--	1	--	3	31

The remainder getting back of the ballot points include:
Chone Figgins - LAA
Aaron Hill - Tor
Bobby Abreu - LAA
Mariano Rivera - MFY
Adam Lind - Tor
Michael Young - Tex
Zack Grienke - KC
Robinson Cano - MFY
Evan Longoria - TB
Justin Verlander - Det
CC Sabathia - MFY
Michael Cuddyer - Min
Victor Martinez - Cle/Bos
Jason Kubel - Min
Placido Polanco - Det
Felix Hernandez - Sea
Ian Kinsler - Tex

[Benjamin Grimm]

Question:

Will any Mets get MVP votes? And if so, who will get the most, and how many points will he get?

My guess: Johan Santana will get a total of 3 points.

[Frayed Knot]

I'm betting none at all. Tough to make a case that anyone from this year's squad deserves to make the top-10 on anyone's list.

oe: double checking the AL list ... 4 teams failed to place at least one guy with votes (Balt, ChiW, Cleve, Oak)

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Flushing shut out, methinks, as it should be.

Hell, the homer-contingent doesn't really exist here; Mets beat writers seemed to hate the team more than anyone by year's end, which makes sense, since their job was to cover this year's team.

[G-Fafif]

Votes are by BWAA guys associated with each AL city. Is this a guy with a Japanese name or have they expanded their voting these days?

[Frayed Knot]

Sure, but Law & Carroll are BWAA guys (as of recently) and are part of specific chapters for voting purposes. Carroll, for instance, is located in Cincinatti and therefore would not be eligible to vote for an AL award under the two votes per league city distribution.
MGiM's statement implies that a foreign writer is the one who cast the 1st place vote for Cabrera and that didn't seem correct to me.

[G-Fafif]

Sure, but Law & Carroll are BWAA guys (as of recently) and are part of specific chapters for voting purposes. Carroll, for instance, is located in Cincinatti and therefore would not be eligible to vote for an AL award under the two votes per league city distribution.
MGiM's statement implies that a foreign writer is the one who cast the 1st place vote for Cabrera and that didn't seem correct to me.[/quote:2webuy58]

Gotcha.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Cabrera's first-place vote came from Keizo Konishi of Kyodo News, a member of the Seattle chapter. That's a Japanese news organization, and Kyodo News on the Web shows it covers Japanese news for local and international audience. My guess that they have a Seattle chapter to cover Ichiro and the other Asian players/manager on the Mariners.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

You surmise correctly, MGiM.

Is anyone else kinda curious to see what the rest of his ballot looked like?

[ashie62]

zero Met MVP votes