First Half Awards

[Leftwich]

AL MVP: Adrian Gonzalez
AL CY Young: Justin Verlander
AL Rookie of the Year: Michael Pineda (This one was hard to figure out)

NL MVP: Prince Fielder
NL CY Young: Jair Jurrjens
NL Rookie of the Year: Craig Kimbrel

Feel free to add your own.

[Swarley]

AL MVP: Adrian Gonzalez
AL CY: Justin Verlander
AL ROTY: Michael Pineda

NL MVP: Jose Reyes
NL CY: Jurrgens or Hamels, can't decide
AL ROTY: Craig Kimbrel

[Goober]

AL MVP: Jose Bautista (there's no argument against this).
AL CY Young: Justin Verlander
AL Rookie of the Year: Michael Pineda (100x better then that shit bag Zach Britton)

NL MVP: Prince Fielder
NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
NL Rookie of the Year: Danny Espinosa

I'm not sure how you guys can pick anyone over Bautista or Halladay. Baustista leads the AL in OBP, Slugging, OPS, Home runs, wOBA, and WAR. What does Gonzalez lead in? Average and RBIs, two stats that are extremely overrated. Bautista is second in average just to boot.

[EmpireWF]

NL MVP: I'm torn. It's either Jose Reyes or Matt Kemp.

Reyes is my homer pick, but he's also got great numbers. 65 R, 22 2B, 15 3B, 30 SB, 3 HR, 32 RBI, .354/.398/.529

But Kemp is the best player on a shitty team. 55 R, 23 2B, 2 3B, 27 SB, 22 HR, 67 RBI, .313/.398/.584

Know what, based on the Mets being above .500, I'll say Jose Reyes.

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NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay - Has more IP than the other candidates but his numbers are awesome. In 143.1 innings, 129 H, 39 ER, 17 BB, 138 SO, 2.45 ERA, 1.02 WHIP.
NL ROTY: Craig Kimbrel



AL MVP: I know Adrian Gonzo gets a lot of live because he's been great for a 1st place team, but I can't get past Jose Bautista's great numbers. They're just better.

In 63 less ABs than Gonzo, Bautista has hit .334/.468/.702 (compared to .354/.414/.591), has 31 HR, 65 RBI, 74 BB, 73 R compared to 17 HR, 77 RBI, 35 BB, 64 R for Gonzo.

AL Cy Young: Justin Verlander -- His numbers are just plain better than Sabathia's and Weavers.
AL ROTY: I'd like to put Trumbo but he strikes out too much and some of his ancillary numbers aren't great (R, RBI, BB)….Michael Pineda

[Rudi]

AL MVP: JOEY BATS
AL CY Young: Verlander
AL Rookie of the Year: Michael Pineda

NL MVP: Prince Fielder
NL CY Young: Johnny Cueto :redsmug:
NL Rookie of the Year: Craig Kimbrel

[NAHSTE]

I've been working on a front page article for midseason awards for a few days. Will try to have it up before the 2nd half starts on Thursday. Verlie is the only one we agree on I think.

[Swarley]

NL MVP: I'm torn. It's either Jose Reyes or Matt Kemp.

Reyes is my homer pick, but he's also got great numbers. 65 R, 22 2B, 15 3B, 30 SB, 3 HR, 32 RBI, .354/.398/.529

But Kemp is the best player on a shitty team. 55 R, 23 2B, 2 3B, 27 SB, 22 HR, 67 RBI, .313/.398/.584

Know what, based on the Mets being above .500, I'll say Jose Reyes.

Plus Kemp is also one of the worst fielders in the game.

[Mogriffjr]

AL MVP- Jose Bautista
---His numbers are Bonds like...and he plays a solid RF and has been moving to 3B as well.

AL CY YOUNG- Justin Verlander
---He's put it together with a high 90's heat, and knee buckling curve. Nasty stuff and seemingly is a threat to get a no-hitter every night out now.

AL ROOK OF THE YEAR- Michael Pineda
---If Verlander wasn't such a beast, Pineda would be possibly top 5 in Cy Young in the AL. Easy selection.

NL MVP- Jose Reyes
---Reyes plays very good defense and has been a hitting machine. Should get 50 SB's, maybe 25 triples...just an amazing season despite the injury.

NL CY YOUNG- Roy Halladay
---Maybe the toughest pick here between Halladay and Jurrjens. I like Jurrjens as he has the edge in Halladay in ERA, .BAA and wins. But Halladay has Jurrjens in K's, IP's, CG's, WHIP. So I went with Roy slightly over Jurrjens

NL ROOK OF THE YEAR- Craig Kimbrel
---TBH this maybe nicknamed the Braves ROY because you have Brandon Beachy who I feel is #2 in the race, and then Freddie Freeman who's 3rd. Braves have an embarrassment of riches.

[Kuzzy Powers]

AL MVP: JOEY BATS
AL Cy Young: JOEY BATS
AL ROY: JOEY BATS

NL MVP: JOEY BATS
NL Cy Young: JOEY BATS
NL ROY: JOEY BATS

[PNovak]

MLB Half Season Awards

The All Star break is here and with every team playing over half of their 162 games, it’s now the perfect time to look at the stats for the half season of games. After that, we can make up reasons why each winner deserves it over the guys that just barely lost out. So here we go!
AL MVP
Jose Bautista – Toronto Blue Jays

I actually found the choice between Adrian Gonzalez and Jose Bautista to be very difficult. Both players are at the top of the heap when it comes to talent as hitters is concerned. You just can’t avoid Bautista and his 7.2 WARP (Wins Above Replacement). Well, that and the fact he has 31 HR at the break to go with a crazy .334 BA. It’s just amazing to see him put up these kind of stats after what he did last year. Many readers and forum members thought he was a fluke and that he had no shot at reproducing the year he had in 2010. He’s actually doing even better than he did last season. That’s why Bautista is the AL MVP! P.S. Homerun Derbies don’t mean anything.

[Swarley]

http://www.virtualsportsdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?t=106360

[Obst]

AL MVP: Jose Bautista
AL CY Young: Justin Verlander
AL Rookie of the Year: Michael Pineda

NL MVP: Jose Reyes
NL CY Young: Roy Halladay
NL Rookie of the Year: Danny Espinosa

[NAHSTE]

AL MVP: Jose Bautista
AL CY Young: Justin Verlander
AL Rookie of the Year: Michael Pineda

NL MVP: Jose Reyes
NL CY Young: Roy Halladay
AL Rookie of the Year: Danny Espinosa

I agree with all of these but one. You list AL ROY twice btw.

[Obst]

I agree with all of these but one. You list AL ROY twice btw.

Good catch, I was just being lazy and copy and pasted Leftwich's format. You would swap Kimbrel for Espinosa as your one disagreement? Or Jurrjens for Halladay

[NAHSTE]

Good catch, I was just being lazy and copy and pasted Leftwich's format. You would swap Kimbrel for Espinosa as your one disagreement? Or Jurrjens for Halladay

Freddie Freeman. He's got better rate stats and he's catching up in the counting stats. WAR likes Espinosa better, mainly due to the 3.5 defense rating. I'm not sure why UZR hates Freddie's glove so much (-6) but that alone accounts for most of the difference.

Plus Espinosa is two years older and had 120 plate appearances last year, barely staying rookie eligible. I factor in degree of difficulty with my ROY vote too. A guy breaking in fresh or at a younger age is gonna get the edge over the guy with an extended cup of coffee under his belt, if all else is equal of course.

Not to mention that Freddie has carried the Braves offense this past month. (Since June 10: .280/.363/.580, 8 HR, 21 RBI. Braves are 19-8 during that time.) Carrying a playoff team as a rookie tends to get you pretty far in voting.