| By Jason A. Churchill |  | By 11-14-2011 |
Just as the regular season came to an end, I polled a slew of baseball geeks on the Major League Baseball Awards. The responses all came in before the postseason began, just as is required of the Baseball Writers Association of America, and 133 ballots were received via email. I polled for votes in each league's MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Executive of the Year, an ALL-MLB Team, and an ALL-MLB Gold Glove team.It's worth noting that not everyone voted for each award -- some didn't feel they were informed enough to make a decision, or flat out couldn't make up their minds on certain awards. Generally, there were 75-105 votes for each award for the results linked below.
The BBWAA (yes, two B's in that) announced their voting for the Rookie of the Year Awards. Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrel took the honors in the National League and Jeremy Hellickson won the award in the American League. I can guarantee you that Hellickson shows up nowhere in the top five in the results of my poll.
Get the results for the individual awards by clicking here.
Get the All-MLB Awards by clicking here.
Special thanks to everyone that voted, including the following: Evan Weebeck, Kevin Schockey of 950KJR.com, Marisa Ingemi of Boston Sports Then and Now, Stephen Hefflin, Colin Hunter, Dan Victor, Blake McIntyre, Sam Evans of MLBReports.com, and Lonnie Mathis of MarinerCentral.com.
For the record, my votes are listed below:
American League MVP
Jose Bautista, RF -- Toronto Blue Jays
National League MVP
Matt Kemp, CF -- Los Angeles Dodgers
American League Cy Young
Justin Verlander, RHP -- Detroit Tigers
National League Cy Young
Roy Halladay, RHP -- Philadelphia Phillies
American League ROY
Dustin Ackley, 2B -- Seattle Mariners
National League ROY
Craig Kimbrel, RHP -- Atlanta Braves
American League MOY
Joe Maddon, Tampa Bay Rays
National League MOY
Kirk Gibson, Arizona Diamondbacks
American League Executive of the Year
Alex Anthopoulos, Toronto Blue Jays
National League Executive of the Year
Doug Melvin, Milwaukee Brewers
All-MLB
1B -- Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers
2B -- Dustin Pedroia, Boston Red Sox
3B -- Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay Rays
SS -- Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado Rockies
C -- Alex Avila, Detroit Tigers
OF -- Matt Kemp, Los Angeles Dodgers
OF -- Jacoby Ellsbury, Boston Red Sox
OF -- Jose Bautista, Toronto Blue Jays
DH -- David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox
SP -- Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers
SP -- Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Phillies
SP -- Cliff Lee, Philadelphia Phillies
RP -- Craig Kimbrel, Atlanta Braves
RP -- Jonathan Papelbon, Boston Red Sox
All-MLB Gold Glove
1B -- Adrian Gonzalez, Boston Red Sox
2B -- Dustin Pedroia, Boston Red Sox
3B -- Adrian Beltre, Texas Rangers
SS -- Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado Rockies
C -- Matt Wieters, Baltimore Orioles
OF -- Justin Upton, Arizona Diamondbacks
OF -- Jacoby Ellsbury, Boston Red Sox
OF -- Brett Gardner, New York Yankees
P -- Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers
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Comments
The following 5 comment(s) for this article are shown below:
| 1. By: maqman on 11-15-2011 12:37:46 I've got no argument with your choices. |
| 2. By: rjfrik on 11-16-2011 15:47:10 Looks like our division, the AL West just got a little easier. The Houston Astros have officially been moved to the AL West. We are now a five team division. |
| 3. By: StandinPat on 11-16-2011 16:45:41 @2 How exactly did the AL West get any easier? |
| 4. By: skyway park on 11-16-2011 17:44:26 He is probably talking about the fact that there one of the few teams worse then the M's right now. It seems like there isn't much news/rumors going on right now for the winter meetings going on. I wonder if teams are waiting for the collective bargining agreement to be signed first. |
| 5. By: StandinPat on 11-17-2011 15:53:29 "He is probably talking about the fact that there one of the few teams worse then the M's right now" Which every other team in the division gets to play as well. There is no advantage of having more teams to beat out. |
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