2018 MLB Awards Finalists Announced

[Dback Jon]

AL Cy Young- Snell, Kluber, and Verlander.
NL Cy Young- de Grom, Scherzer, Nola
NL MVP- Yelich, Baez, Arenado
NL ROY- Acuna, Soto, Buehler
AL ROY- Ohtani, Torres, Andujar
AL MVP- Betts, Ramirez, Trout

 

[Dback Jon]

My Votes:

AL Cy Young- Kluber
NL Cy Young- de Grom
NL MVP- Yelich
NL ROY- Buehler
AL ROY- Ohtani
AL MVP- Betts

 

[Dback Jon]

American League Rookie of the Year: Shohei Ohtani.

 

[Ronin]

Acuna wins NL Rookie of the year.

 

[Ronin]

Bob Nightengale

✔ @BNightengale



The #MLB Manager of the Year awards will be revealed today.
Congratulations to Atlanta #Braves Brian Snitker and Oakland #Athletics Bob Melvin, who are heavy favorites.

 

[Ronin]

Bob Melvin Wins 2018 AL Manager of Year Award

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2801650-bob-melvin-wins-2018-al-manager-of-year-award

 

[Ronin]

Brian Snitker Wins 2018 NL Manager of Year Award

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2801494-brian-snitker-wins-2018-nl-manager-of-year-award

 

[Dback Jon]

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2801650-bob-melvin-wins-2018-al-manager-of-year-award

As he should have

 

[Ronin]

Bob Nightengale

✔ @BNightengale



The Cy Young award winners will be announced tonight, so early congratulations to Jacob deGrom of the #Mets,, who could be unanimous NL pick and Blake Snell of #Rays, who should finish ahead of #Astros Justin Verlander

 

[Dback Jon]

Blake Snell does indeed win.

 

[Dback Jon]

Jacob deGrom wins NL Cy Young

 

[Willie D]

Jacob deGrom wins NL Cy Young

Poor choice.

 

[Dback Jon]

Poor choice.

Why? Who would you have picked?

 

[Dback Jon]

Yelich and Betts win MVP's

 

[Willie D]

Why? Who would you have picked?

Maybe someone who had a record more north of .500? Scherzer? Maybe someone who carried their team to a playoff berth at the bitter end like Kershaw? And trust me, my friend, it pains me to speak well of the Doyers or the Expos. When sports writers say he won the Denton True Young Award "despite having just 10 wins," something is wrong with the voting.

One of the BabaWawa writers hasn't written an article about baseball in a decade. How the bleep is he qualified to do anything except take his golf cart down to the local Golden Arches and gum down some fries? And please don't get me wound up on the analytics mow-rons.

This is not new. In 1967, the BBWAA voted some schlep over Bob Frigging Gibson, who not only had a comparable ERA, but led the Cardinals to the WS title. They sawed off the top of the pitchers' mound because of that cat!

 

[DWKB]

Cy Young is not an MVP award so “team performance” should not factor and anyone judging a pitcher by wins hasn’t understood baseball for over a decade.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Maybe someone who had a record more north of .500? Scherzer? Maybe someone who carried their team to a playoff berth at the bitter end like Kershaw? And trust me, my friend, it pains me to speak well of the Doyers or the Expos. When sports writers say he won the Denton True Young Award "despite having just 10 wins," something is wrong with the voting.

One of the BabaWawa writers hasn't written an article about baseball in a decade. How the bleep is he qualified to do anything except take his golf cart down to the local Golden Arches and gum down some fries? And please don't get me wound up on the analytics mow-rons.

This is not new. In 1967, the BBWAA voted some schlep over Bob Frigging Gibson, who not only had a comparable ERA, but led the Cardinals to the WS title. They sawed off the top of the pitchers' mound because of that cat!

DeGrom put up an historic season! He was the clear choice...

 

[Dback Jon]

29 of the writers voted for deGrom. Wins is a team stat - you can't win many games if your team doesn't provide support.

 

[Willie D]

Oh f**k it, this is silly. I'm done with this. Y'all realize a few relief pitchers have been given this trophy, so team performance counts in it...or at least used to.

But just screw it. Go lob up another 50,000 posts on an internet message board and say that you care.

 

[Ronin]

Oh f**k it, this is silly. I'm done with this. Y'all realize a few relief pitchers have been given this trophy, so team performance counts in it...or at least used to.

Eric Gagne is the last relief pitcher that I remember winning the award. He had that crazy save streak going for him.