2015 Awards Thread

[Edgy MD]

Matt Harvey is your Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think The Sporting News is more in need of a comeback than Matt Harvey ever was.

[Edgy MD]

Sporting News National League Manager of the Year: Terry Collins.

[Elster88]

Terry was voted NL manager of the year by the other managers today

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Matt Hovvey also takes MLB Comeback POTY trophy.

[Edgy MD]

Wilson Defensive Players of the Year Awards
Handed out regardless of league, but most of these guys are National Leaguers

Pitcher: Jacob deGrom, New York Mets
Catcher: Busterino Posey, San Francisco Giants
First base: Paul Goldschmidt, Arizona Diamondbacks
Second base: Dee Gordon, Miami Marlins
Third base: Nolan Arenado, Colorado Rockies
Shortstop: Andrelton Simmons, Atlanta Braves
Left field: Sterling Marte, Pittsburgh Pirates
Center field: Kevin Pillar, Toronto Blue Jays
Right field: Jason Heyward, St. Louis Cardinals?

Defensive Team of the Year: Arizona Diamondbacks

Overall 2015 Defensive Player of the Year: Andrelton Simmons, Atlanta Braves

[Centerfield]

I feel like those awards are about as real as the CPF Schaefer Player of the Year.

[Benjamin Grimm]

So by that you mean highly prestigious and much coveted?

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Handed out regardless of league, but most of these guys are National Leaguers

That's because the National League plays baseball they way its supposed to be played. Every player on every roster is expected to be able to field his position(or at least try). None of those "hitter only" players for us.

Later

[RealityChuck]

Wilson Defensive Players of the Year Awards Handed out regardless of league, but most of these guys are National Leaguers Pitcher: Jacob deGrom, New York Mets

The most impressive fact I picked up from this is that DeGrom has yet to make an error in his major league career.

[Ceetar]

Wilson Defensive Players of the Year Awards Handed out regardless of league, but most of these guys are National Leaguers Pitcher: Jacob deGrom, New York Mets The most impressive fact I picked up from this is that DeGrom has yet to make an error in his major league career.

Anthony DiComo tweeted that the other day so i looked it up.

only other qualified pitchers that haven't over last two years: Kluber, Odorizzi, Kennedy, Quintana.

deGrom, Niese, and Colon all have 6 double plays started over last two years. Only Teheran and Quintana have more. (7)

[Zvon]

Maddon gets manager of the year. TC doesn't even come in 2nd in the voting. That's a bunch of bullshit.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/25378661/cubs-joe-maddon-wins-nl-manager-of-the-year-award

[Edgy MD]

I can live with that.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Me too.

[Centerfield]

It's weird. I'm still upset with Terry and would have been happy to replace him.

But I'm also pissed he didn't win.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Certainly Collins achieved more versus expected than Maddon.
But I don't really care about this stuff much.

[Lefty Specialist]

Bet Maddon wishes he could have been in this year's World Series. So there's that.

[Centerfield]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Bet Maddon wishes he could have been in this year's World Series. So there's that.

Yup. I can't stand Maddon and his "I'm smart and quirky and hip" schtick.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Damn hipster finished in third place. Eff you, Joe.

[Guest El Segundo Escupidor]

12 places too high.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

See, but Maddon IS smart, and comes up with goofy bonding bits, and just happens to wear good glasses. The shtick comes from writing hackery.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

You know Zack Greinke's okay with the Cy vote, if only because now, he doesn't have to give a speech.

[Fman99]

Maddon has the hallmark big red drunkard nose. So he's got that working.

This is all a painful reminder of the fact that we're still three months away from guys even playing fucking catch in Port St. Lucie. Fuck the offseason.

[Frayed Knot]

A bit surprising for Arrieta though it was somewhat close.
Voters opted for the better 2nd half by the lone ace over the sustained full season by a co-ace

Arrieta: 17 - 11 - 2 (1st, 2nd, 3rd)
Greinke: 10 - 17 - 3
Kershaw: 3 - 2 - 23
Cole: 0 - 0 - 2
Scherzer
Bumgarner
deGrom: two 4th place votes + three 5ths
Melancon
Lackey

[Frayed Knot]

NL MVP - Bryce Harper, and it was unanimous.
Goldschmit 2nd, Votto 3rd, Anthony Rizzo 4th (which prevented the Cub from sweeping ALL the major awards in the NL this season). Good year for 1st basemen.

For all the late season talk about Cespedes sneaking in and grabbing MVP votes, he finished 13th
Granderson was 18th which, considering he suxx, is pretty good.


AL = Josh Donaldson (23 of 30 votes)
Followed by Trout, Lorenzo Cain, Manny Machado
Brian McCann was 24th while Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira were T-26 (aka: one 10th place vote each)

[Edgy MD]

I tend to think Harper isn't as obvious as all that. He's click ahead of the field in WAR and fWAR, and I can't take that away from him, but I've grown to like WPA, and WPA likes Anthony Rizzo.

Certainly what we've seen of Harper this year supports that. He was as good a player as you could ask for, until all the chips were on the table.

[Centerfield]

Harper gave a nice acknowledgement to the Mets yesterday. Plus, when the Mets clinched, he was classy and said that he hopes we win it all. Maybe he's not such a bad guy. It's funny, I feel like he says all the right things, and I can't really point to anything that he's done wrong to warrant his reputation.

But he just seems like such a dick.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He's just got one of those faces. And haircuts. And miens, and names.

WPA is great, but for me, it's a supplementary argument, better for tiebreaker or additional... texture, y'know? I mean, it means the guy did well in the clutch that year, but it doesn't mean Harper did POORER in high-leverage situations, necessarily; Harper likely just didn't get to hit in as MANY of them.

[Edgy MD]

But look at those numbers. He had the worst relative clutch performance in the National League. And so what we're doing by giving him the MVP is rewarding him for theoretical runs he would have produced in an all-situations-are-equal environment, but denying Rizzo, who actually produced more runs in real life.

[Vic Sage]

Granderson ranked 12th in WPA... but CF said he sucked!