2016 MLB awards thread

maybe they thought he was going to get enough votes with others and wanted to throw some love to their pet-favs?

either way, Kate Upton losing her shit on twitter has been a sight to behold.

Kluber seemed to be the favorite down the stretch.

disappointed that kate upton didn't start ranting about xFIP and curveball RPM etc

great that ppl have never given less of a shit about these than now

No vote-splitting--Trout cleaned up.

woo-hoo!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUahRdeHJTdPyI3qPU_k4_53i0zgYlVENVV_He7_a14/pubhtml#

one guy put cabrera in front of trout, for old time's sake

good job john hickey

i'm startled

Was a little surprised there weren't any Red Sox after Betts and Ortiz to show up down-ballot--Pedroia, at least.

Top four AL MVP matched the top four bWAR finishers, and the vote spread also looks similar to the bWAR spread.

Ortiz with a 1st place vote :|

@DetroitTigersPR
Per @EliasSports, Cabrera is the 4th player to receive a MVP vote in 14 straight seasons, joining Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra and Barry Bonds.

that's odd, because he's only played 14 seasons. so he received a MVP vote for his 2003 rookie season (87 games played, .268/.325/.468, 106 wRC+)?

he's amazing, though. if his defense wasn't awful he would have had a better chance of catching up with Pujols, at least by fWAR. even now, he might have a chance. he trails him by 23 right now (68 to 91), but it's not hard to imagine a scenario where pujols five more years (!!!!?!?!?) of -1.0 to 1.0 level seasons while cabrera cranks out another handful of 3-4 WAR seasons.

taking sides: Ryan Howard in 2015-16 or your idea of how Pujols will be doing in 2020-21

he got one 8th place vote for some reason

If Trout were to win the MVP unanimously next year, he'd be tied with Schmidt for 11th on the all-time MVP-share list; a unanimous Cy Young for Kershaw would move him to third on the Cy list.

BP podcast pointed out that this pool of 30 writers on this award was relatively analytics- and Trout-friendly

Conceding James has a heavy bias here, I think this is an excellent breakdown of why Verlander's big bWAR advantage over Porcello is illusory.

http://www.billjamesonline.com/porlander_and_vercello/

sean forman's response (to pos, not james): https://twitter.com/sean_forman/status/800775742724325376

So James is saying Verlander would have given up just as many hits on balls in play even with a great defense behind him? If that's true, what does it mean to say that the Tigers were 50 runs worse than average on defense? It means they should have given up more hits than the average defense, which translates into more runs, unless they so happened to be not as bad when Verlander pitched. I think this is Forman's point ...?

more on various WARs: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18114272/miller-going-war-mystery-robbie-ray

that's a fantastic article

yes

Rick Porcello, Anthony Rendon Win 2016 MLB Comeback Player of the Year Awards