Post-Season Awardzzzz 2014

[Edgy MD]

Casey McGehee and Chris Young are your Comeback Dude winners. Young spent 2013 in the minors, making only nine starts. McGehee spent it in Japan.

[metsmarathon]

is now a good time to ask why the world series mvp can be a pitcher, but for some reason, pitchers can't be the season mvp?

[Edgy MD]

The short answer, and one I disagree with, is because pitchers "have their own award."

[metsmarathon]

so do hitters. and fielders.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Justin Verlander, Dennis Eckersley, Roger Clemens, Rollie Fingers, Bob Gibson, and some others would like to argue with that assertion.

[Edgy MD]

Speaking of fielders, Yadier Molina has won his third Platinum Glove award in four years. The PG goes to the one top defender. It's been around since 2011, and I think its time has more than come, but it's voted on by fans, so judge that as you will.

Year League Player Team Position

2011 American Adri�n Beltr� Texas Rangers 3B
2011 National Yadier Molina St. Louis Cardinals C

2012 American Adri�n Beltr� (2) Texas Rangers 3B
2012 National Yadier Molina (2) St. Louis Cardinals C

2013 American Manny Machado Baltimore Orioles 3B
2013 National Andrelton Simmons Atlanta Braves SS

2014 American Alex Gordon Kansas City Royals LF
2014 National Yadier Molina (3) St. Louis Cardinals C

Know what? Don't judge that as you will. Listen to me. Boo that result. Boo it to the moon and back. That's Lagares' hardware Molina's collecting.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, the whole fan voting thing to decide an award among award winners is a really bad idea.


Silver Sluggers - 2014:

American League
1B - Jose Abreu, White Sox
2B - Jose Altuve, Astros
SS - Alexei Ramirez, White Sox
3B - Adrian Beltre, Rangers
OF - Mike Trout, Angels
OF - Jose Bautista, Blue Jays
OF - Michael Brantley, Indians
C - Yan Gomes, Indians
DH - Victor Martinez, Tigers

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National League
1B - Adrian Gonzalez, Dodgers
2B - Neil Walker, Pirates
SS - Ian Desmond, Nationals
3B - Anthony Rendon, Nationals
OF - Andrew McCutchen, Pirates
OF - Justin Upton, Braves
OF - Giancarlo Stanton, Marlins
C - Buster Posey, Giants
P - Madison Bumgarner, Giants

[ashie62]

Silver Slugger Alexei Ramirez might be a Met target.

[Frayed Knot]

Washington's Matt Williams & Baltimore's Buck Showalter are MOYs for 2014

[bmfc1]

Phil Rogers, who put deGrom 2d, voted Terry as 3d for Manager of the Year. Was he casting this vote from the bottom?

Edited November 11, 2014 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

He figures that deGrom only pitched as well as he did because he was being managed by Terry.

[Frayed Knot]

Clayton Kershaw, to the surprise of no one, is the unanimous NL CY. Johnny Cueto & Adam Wainwright finished 2nd & 3rd

Unknown to most at the beginning of the year, Cleveland's Corey Kluber is the AL winner over Felix Hernandez (17 1st place votes to 13) with Chicago's Chris Sale finishing 3rd

[G-Fafif]

Kershaw wins MVP, first NL pitcher to do so since the year before Seaver should have in 1969. Duda nabs one eighth-place vote. Stanton 2nd, Cutch 3rd.

Trout in the DH league, unaninimous.

[Zvon]

G-Fafif wrote: Kershaw wins MVP, first NL pitcher to do so since the year before Seaver should have in 1969. Duda nabs one eighth-place vote. Stanton 2nd, Cutch 3rd. Trout in the DH league, unaninimous.

Figured on both. I'm amazed at how much I didn't give a shit after the ROY was announced. I'm usually into it whether a Mets involved or not. I guess because most were shoe-ins.

[Edgy MD]

Curious if Stanton could have pulled it out hadn't he gotten his face mashed in.

I'm really concerned he'll never be the same.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Curious if Stanton could have pulled it out hadn't he gotten his face mashed in. I'm really concerned he'll never be the same.

That would suck.

[Edgy MD]

Gar-Batting Stance Guy 9 mins � Twitter � Marlins nearing $300M deal with Stanton. 1 year with Miami and 8 with Toronto.

[metsmarathon]

i'm happily surprised that the voters got the nl mvp right. all too often i hear that t pitcher can't be the mvp, because he has his own award. i'm glad enough people disagreed.

[Frayed Knot]

2nd time in four seasons for a pitcher as MVP (Verlander - 2011)
The big gap had been for an NL pitcher to pull of the double, you need to go back to Bob Gibson '68 for that one.
The one argument I found specifically stupid was the one where relief pitchers should be considered for MVPs but not starters.


Kind of funny that Trout, after two runner-up years, wins unanimously in what was arguably the worst of his three full seasons.