Mid-Season Awards

[Woy]

http://woysword.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/yet-another-mid-season-award-list/

Shameless plug. Anyways, for those who don't want to read:

AL MVP: Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP: Carlos Gonzalez
AL Cy Young: Bartolo Colon ()
NL Cy Young: Matt Harvey / Adam Wainwright (tie)
AL Rookie of the Year: Leonys Martin
NL Rookie of the Year: Shelby Miller

[Obst]

http://woysword.wordpress.com/2013/0...on-award-list/

Shameless plug. Anyways, for those who don't want to read:

AL MVP: Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP: Carlos Gonzalez
AL Cy Young: Bartolo Colon ()
NL Cy Young: Matt Harvey / Adam Wainwright (tie)
AL Rookie of the Year: Leonys Martin
NL Rookie of the Year: Shelby Miller

Please tell me how Colon is Cy Young over Felix, Holland, Scherzer, Anibal, Yu, and Sale

[Slateman]

Please tell me how Colon is Cy Young over Felix, Holland, Scherzer, Anibal, Yu, and Sale

Because race car

[Goober]

Please tell me how Colon is Cy Young over Felix, Holland, Scherzer, Anibal, Yu, and Sale

I laughed out loud
Then I checked the leaderboard
A terrible pick

[Goober]

My picks.

AL MVP - Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP - Carlos Gomez
AL Cy Young - Max Scherzer
NL Cy Young - Matt Harvey (innings limit will probably prevent him from winning it at the end of the year, but he's the Guy right now).
Al ROY - Wil Myers
NL ROY - Shelby Miller

[SuperKevin]

Carlos Gomez won't win MVP on that Brewers team

[NAHSTE]

AL MVP: just because picking Miggy is boring.
NL MVP: Joey Votto, Goldschmidt has cooled down slightly, but he was the obvious answer 2 weeks ago.
AL Cy:
NL Cy: Wainwright
AL ROY: Nick Franklin
NL ROY: Yasiel Puig

[Hasselbeck]

AL MVP: Chris Davis
NL MVP: Paul Goldschmidt

AL Cy Young: Max Scherzer
NL Cy Young: Matt Harvey (would be a with run support)

AL ROY: Wil Myerschise
NL ROY: Yasiel Puig

[Goober]

Carlos Gomez won't win MVP on that Brewers team

Probably not, because voters factor in arbitrary facts that do not impact a player's value such as team w/l record.

Anyways, Carlos Gomez has been the best player in the NL by a decent size margin this year, so I see no reason why he shouldn't be on a mid season awards list.

[EmpireWF]

AL MVP: Miguel Cabrera
NL MVP: Paul Goldschmidt

AL Cy Young: Yu Darvish
NL Cy Young: Matt Harvey

AL Rookie of the Year: Leonys Martin
NL Rookie of the Year: Shelby Miller (wanted to go with Fernandez, but Miller has overall better #s so far)

NL Cy Young: Matt Harvey (would be a with run support)

Sad how year after year, it's the same old shit. Johan would've had at least a dozen more wins with any actual run support. Matt Harvey has lost or received a no decision in about 5 games this year where he's limited opponents to 1 or 2 runs. Ugh....anyway....enough of this semi-rant.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Harvey is the NL Cy Young, no other answer is remotely acceptable.

I like Davis over Miggy, Davis is just unreal and since i'm a guy who will consider the word "valuable" as part of the criteria until they remove it from the award description, I also think Davis means more to his team than Miggy means to his.

I love me some Votto, but this is his worst offensive year since 2010, and he's having a bad defensive year by his stardards (10 errors already, multiple mental mistakes). It doesn't "feel" like he's having an MVP caliber season, but then when you look at the numbers he's either the leader or among the leaders in runs created, OPS+, Adj batter runs & wins, WPA, and of course, on base percentage & times on base.

Thing is, voters aren't going to look at that. He has 14 HR's & 38 RBI. He's slugging .518, but that's his lowest total since 2008. Nothing wrong with a .326/14/38 line, but he's not going to win a batting title, hit 40 HR's, or drive in 100 runs, so when you have guys with 80 RBI & 32 HR's by July 1, Votto's season doesn't look very impressive.

I'm not sure what my point is here, but I think i'd vote for Cargo at this point. What I do know, is Votto won't win. Not even sure he should, but it's a better argument.

Also, re: Votto RBI total. Brandon Phillips, a fine hitter for a middle infielder, who has hit very well with RISP this season but has a slash line nearly identical to his career line, has 61. Votto leads the league in walks with 60, leads the league in IBB with 11. Now, i'm not ripping Phillips, because teams have dared him to beat them and he has. Good on him. But when people say lineup protection doesn't exist, I don't think they examine it from all angles. Brandon Phillips & Joey Votto's RBI totals are a direct result of lineup protection. For both men.