Post-Season Awards

[Ceetar]

IBWAA:

NL Cy

1st Place: Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers
2nd Place: Adam Wainwright, St. Louis Cardinals
3rd Place: Jose Fernandez, Miami Marlins
4th Place: Matt Harvey, New York Mets
5th Place: Cliff Lee, Philadelphia Phillies

AL Cy

1st Place: Max Scherzer, Detroit Tigers
2nd Place: Yu Darvish, Texas Rangers
3rd Place: Chris Sale, Chicago White Sox
4th Place: Hisashi Iwakuma, Seattle Mariners
5th Place: Bartolo Colon, Oakland Athletics


Seem like the obvious two winners for the BBWAA too.

I went
Scherzer, Hernandez, Sale, Iwakuma, Sanchez
and
Kershaw, Wainwright, Lee, Bumgarner, Harvey

[G-Fafif]

MH T-4 NL CYA.

[Edgy MD]

If that's your vanity plate, you're an even bigger fan than I thought.

Cryptic, too!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Right? Philistine that I am, I just went with "NOOD SP."

[Frayed Knot]

PLAYER	1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
KERSHAW	29	1	0	207
WAINWRIGHT	1	15	4	86
FERNANDEZ	0	9	3	62
KIMBREL	0	4	1	39
HARVEY	0	1	8	39
LEE	0	0	6	32
ZIMMERMANN	0	0	6	21
GREINKE	0	0	2	18
BUMGARNER	0	0	0	3
LIRIANO	0	0	0	3

PLAYER	1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
SCHERZER	28	1	1	203
DARVISH	0	19	3	93
IWAKUMA	0	6	12	73
SANCHEZ	1	1	3	46
SALE	1	0	5	44
COLON	0	2	3	25
UEHARA	0	1	2	10
HERNANDEZ	0	0	1	6
MOORE	0	0	0	4
HOLLAND	0	0	0	2
MOORE	0	0	0	4
SHIELDS	0	0	0	2

First back-to-back years of NO Yanx receiving votes since the early 1990s

[G-Fafif]

NYM 0 NL MVP.

That is to say that in 2013, for the 19th time in the 52-year history of the New York Mets, not a single MVP vote was thrown a Met's way. The other years when BBWAA voters avoided voting the Metropolitan ticket:

1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1977*, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2009.

*Tom Seaver received a 10th-place vote in 1977, more likely for his Reds than his Mets accomplishments, but he was a Met for part of 1977, so take that with a grain of hometown salt. (Carlos Beltran's MVP support in 2011 could be taken the same way.)

McCutchen won in the NL, Cabrera in the AL.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

So the MVP count stands at:

Actual Trout 0
Slightly Poorer Man's Trout 1
Drinks Like A Trout/Has Likely Never Eaten An Unfried One 2

[Zvon]

Trout will win his share. Probably win the next ten in a row. Glad McCuthenson got it.

[Gwreck]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: OK, sportswriters. Justify those votes for Girardi!

Vote breakdown here:
http://bbwaa.com/13-al-mgr/

2nd place votes from Andy McCullough and also Sheldon Ocker of the Akron Beacon Journal.
Five 3rd place votes including one from, you guessed it, Bill Madden.

[dinosaur jesus]

I'm okay with Girardi getting some votes. He had less talent to work with than those other guys.

[Ceetar]

my picks: IBWAA went with Cabrera and McCutchen too.

1 Mike Trout
2 Miguel Cabrera
3 Chris Davis
4 Josh Donaldson
5 David Ortiz
6 Robinson Cano
7 Max Scherzer
8 Felix Hernandez
9 Edwin Encarnacion
10 Adrian Beltre


1 Andrew McCutchen
2 Paul Goldschmidt
3 Joey Votto
4 Matt Carpenter
5 Troy Tulowitzki
6 Clayton Kershaw
7 Shin-Soo Choo
8 Freddie Freeman
9 Jayson Werth
10 Carlos Beltran

[Edgy MD]

McCutchen is a revelation. I get the idea that he could excel at any sport --- football, basketball, tennis, table tennis, rhythm gymnastics, nok-hockey... . You know, if he transferred to cricket today, within two years he'd be the top cricketer on the planet.

Baseball is lucky to have him.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: McCutchen is a revelation. I get the idea that he could excel at any sport --- football, basketball, tennis, table tennis, rhythm gymnastics, nok-hockey... . You know, if he transferred to cricket today, within two years he'd be the top cricketer on the planet. Baseball is lucky to have him.

Indeed. And he had a really good year last year too. I don't really care about the Pirates finally being relevant, but I'm glad he got his couple of games on the big stage, hopefully he becomes known as one of the stars of the game he is.

[Edgy MD]

I think he's really the star. He's not as refined a hitter as some. But he's got a great all-round game and he's sure rounded off any rough edges the last two years. Funny that he lost 50 points off his slugging average from last year and lost his Gold Glove but went from third to first in MVP voting. Your team making the post-season sure makes you look good.

Great too that the Pirates wrapped him up early.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He's not just good at everything-- he's great at a couple of things, too.

Love the glove, love the hair, love the legs, love the bat, love the smile, love the musk. He's my non-Met Recker.