With apologies to James Joyce, here’s a post on the Cy Young Award, to be awarded this season, for the sixtieth time, to the best pitcher in each league, as voted by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. The idea for this post, and most of the content, are courtesy of commenter No Statistician But. More after the jump.
Continue readingThis post is for voting and discussion in the 145th round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG). This is the second of two rounds of balloting adding to the list of candidates eligible to receive your votes those players born in 1981. Rules and lists are after the jump.
Continue readingThis post is for voting and discussion in the 144th round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG). This is the first of two rounds of balloting adding to the list of candidates eligible to receive your votes those players born in 1981. Rules and lists are after the jump.
Continue readingThis Circle of Greats (COG) vote is not to induct anyone into the Circle. Instead, this round of voting will select three or more players who will be restored to the secondary ballot after having been previously dropped from eligibility.
This post is for voting and discussion in the 143rd round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG). This is the last of three rounds of balloting adding to the list of candidates eligible to receive your votes those players born in 1980. Rules and lists are after the jump.
Continue readingThis post is for voting and discussion in the 142nd round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG). This is the second of three rounds of balloting adding to the list of candidates eligible to receive your votes those players born in 1980. Rules and lists are after the jump.
Continue readingThis post is for voting and discussion in a runoff election to decide the winner of the 141st round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG). Here are the career AL and NL stats for our two candidates.
| Player | WAR | OPS+ | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | Pos | Tm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnie Minoso | 50.4 | 130 | 1835 | 7713 | 6579 | 1136 | 1963 | 336 | 83 | 186 | 1023 | 814 | 584 | 216 | .298 | .389 | .459 | .848 | 759H8/36 | CHW-CLE-STL-WSA |
| Scott Rolen | 70.1 | 122 | 2038 | 8518 | 7398 | 1211 | 2077 | 517 | 43 | 316 | 1287 | 899 | 1410 | 118 | .281 | .364 | .490 | .855 | *5/H | PHI-STL-TOR-CIN |
This post is for voting and discussion in the 141st round of balloting for the Circle of Greats (COG). This is the first of three rounds of balloting adding to the list of candidates eligible to receive your votes those players born in 1980. Rules and lists are after the jump.
Continue readingHere it is, folks: our final award for the 2021 MLB season! (Sorry for the lateness of the post; New Year’s Day got a little too busy to dash this off.) If you’d like to read about some candidates and join the voting, please continue!
Hey, everyone! Time for everybody’s favorite awards – the randos! Not sure who the best player in the league was? Or the best pitcher? Well, here, it doesn’t matter. That’s because we’re voting for the Manager of the Year and Rookie of the year on this ballot. More after the jump.