2007 Awards

[Shoalzie]

Yesterday, Pedroia and Braun nab ROY honors in the AL and NL respectively. Pedroia was the clear-cut choice and the crazy thing is for the Sox to have 3 guys in the top 6 in votes. Braun had an amazing year although pretty much didn't play the first two months of the season. ESPN showed an interesting comparison to A-Rod's numbers since Braun was called up...Braun edged A-Rod in the hitting categories while A-Rod won out in power and run production.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3106745

Today, Sabathia wins the AL Cy Young...and by a fairly large margin over Beckett, got more than double the first place votes. It's a good choice...he's becoming one of the premier pitchers in the game and he'll be in the discussion for this award annually. The postseason on the other hand...

My picks for the other major awards...
NL Cy Young: Jake Peavy
AL Manager of the Year: Eric Wedge
NL Manager of the Year: Clint Hurdle
AL MVP: Alex Rodriguez
NL MVP: Matt Holliday

[Neely8]

Premier pitchers don't fold when it really counts. Beckett got robbed. They should vote on these after the postseason for this very reason.....

[rozy]

Today, Sabathia wins the AL Cy Young...and by a fairly large margin over Beckett, got more than double the first place votes. It's a good choice...

Explain that one for me. How could Beckett NOT have won?

Sometimes you really need to plug your brain in BEFORE hitting that damnable submit button...

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

Explain that one for me. How could Beckett NOT have won?

At the time the ballots were cast.... CC had more innings pitched, more Ks, less walks, better ERA, one less win.


All I've heard on local sports talk is how Beckett was robbed.... are you a closet Sux Fan = too stupid to realize this is a regular season award?

[Jack]

MLB writers had to give Cleveland something to bring the fans back after that collapse.

It is a regular season award and it was close between Becket and Sabathia.

I am just glad that we have another ring!!
and we do have Beckett to thank for that.

*Josh Beckett 2007 ALCS MVP *

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

MLB writers had to give Cleveland something to bring the fans back after that collapse.

Yeah... because now that they have Cy Young winner on the team... now the fans will come back. Not because they have a very good team or anything. Good thing too, because the Jake surely would have looked like a graveyard next year. No fan support whatsoever.


Furthermore....it's not like Sabathia didn't earn the award or anything. Gotcha.


You do realize this award was voted on before the "collapse", right? Do you ever tire of being the stupidest motherfucker to ever disgrace the internet?

[Shoalzie]

Why is SoxFan getting bent out of shape over the Cy Young? Be happy that Beckett is becoming the pitcher you acquired a couple years ago. You give up Hanley Ramirez and has gone on to have a great start in his young career. Both Lowell and Beckett were average at best last year but this year, that trade paid off big time and got you another championship. Beckett is going to anchor that rotation for quite a while...he'll be up every year like Santana, Sabathia, Halladay and Verlander for the Cy Young in the coming years. SoxNation has the ultimate scoreboard once again...don't sweat the small stuff.

[rozy]

less walks,

Oh, that settles it.

And Shoalz, shut up. TIA

[Shoalzie]

And Shoalz, shut up. TIA

Happy Turkey Day to you too...

[jiminphilly]

Rollins is the NL MVP.. link to follow.

Rollins nabs NL MVP Award
11/20/2007 2:00 PM ET
By Ken Mandel / MLB.com

PHILADELPHIA -- Considering the amazing streaks for the teams whose uniforms they wore, the National League MVP race had to be this close.
There could be no other finish.

But Philadelphia shortstop Jimmy Rollins, all 5-foot-8 of him, stood taller than Colorado's Matt Holliday and Milwaukee's Prince Fielder, as the Baseball Writers' Association of America announced the results of its final individual award given out this season.

Rollins gives the Phillies their seventh MVP award, joining Chuck Klein (1932), Jim Konstanty (1950), Mike Schmidt (1980, 1981, 1986) and Ryan Howard (2006). With Howard, the Phillies become the first club with back-to-back MVPs since San Francisco's Jeff Kent and Barry Bonds in 2000 and 2001.

Tuesday's announcement should spark debate about which player meant more to his team.

Everything Philadelphia accomplished in 2007 focused on Rollins, starting with his January boast that the Phillies were the "team to beat" in the NL East. That disregarded the Mets, who captured the division the previous season and the Braves, who won it seemingly every year before that.

Despite taking flack after Philadelphia's 4-11 season-opening stumble, Rollins remained at the center of the Phillies' resurgence. He batted .346 (28-for-81) with six homers, 15 RBIs and 15 runs in 18 games against those Mets and started all 162 games at shortstop, playing all but 17 innings. Batting in the leadoff spot for most of the season, he kept the offense churning.

He committed just 11 errors, enough for his first Gold Glove, though his fielding percentage was second to Colorado's Troy Tulowitzki.

When closer Brett Myers hurled his glove in the air following a called strike three against Washington's Wily Mo Pena -- securing a 13-4 finish that earned the Phillies their first postseason appearance since 1993 -- Rollins' MVP credentials were cemented.

"If Jimmy doesn't win the MVP, there's something wrong with the system," left fielder Pat Burrell said on the final day of the season. "This guy, he took us on his shoulders from Day 1, and did things in this game that never happened."

The 32 voters on the NL Most Valuable Player Award committee, two from each NL city, filed ballots after the regular season, and most took the option of waiting until Rockies' one-game playoff win over the Padres. Each writer could list a top 10 in order. Players were awarded 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for a second-place vote, etc.

Rollins became the first player in history to collect at least 200 hits, 25 homers, 15 triples and 25 steals in a season. Overall, the switch-hitter batted .296, with 38 doubles, 20 triples, 30 homers, 94 RBIs, 41 stolen bases, 212 hits and 139 runs scored.

The 139 runs scored and 88 extra-base hits were league records for a shortstop. He also set a Major League record with 716 at-bats, and became the third shortstop in history to have at least 30 homers and 30 stolen bases in a season, after Barry Larkin in 1996 and Alex Rodriguez in 1998.

Holliday, meanwhile, captured the league's batting and RBI titles, and led the Rockies into the postseason for the first time since 1995. The left fielder was the focal point of the team's 15-1 run to get there, batting .442 with five homers and 17 RBIs.

Overall, he batted .340, with 50 doubles, 36 homers, 137 RBIs, 216 hits and 120 runs scored. He also led the league in hits, total bases, doubles and extra-base hits.

The statistics only told part of the story. The voters went with the player who backed up a bold prediction. On a team with Howard and Chase Utley, who himself had an MVP campaign despite missing five weeks with a broken hand, Rollins simply was the team's most valuable.

Now, he has the hardware.

"He's the MVP of the National League," manager Charlie Manuel said often in September. "He sets the tone on offense and defense. He plays every day. I've never seen so many hard-hit balls in my life, and he turns them into double plays. He's the guy that got us going ... all year."

This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.



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MLB.com

I know Rozy is pissed. :D:D

Edit- good link with voting record-


http://www.baseballwriters.org/awards/2 ... L_mvp.html

[Mile-Hi T]

Absolute bullshit... Fuckin East coast bias.
First of all Tulo is robbed of the gold glove, look at the stats. Jimmy rollins had a great year, but Tulo led in EVERY category.
Then he is robbed of the ROY. In today's ML MVP totals. Tulo had 12 votes for MVP...Braun had 3. If the same voters vote for ROY and the MVP, how can this happen. Braun's O numbers were great, but he kept his team from getting into the playoffs with his piece of shit D.
Hurdle and Melvin was a toss-up.
Rollins over Holliday..No fuckin way.

[jiminphilly]

Absolute bullshit... Fuckin East coast bias.
First of all Tulo is robbed of the gold glove, look at the stats. Jimmy rollins had a great year, but Tulo led in EVERY category.
Then he is robbed of the ROY. In today's ML MVP totals. Tulo had 12 votes for MVP...Braun had 3. If the same voters vote for ROY and the MVP, how can this happen. Braun's O numbers were great, but he kept his team from getting into the playoffs with his piece of shit D.
Hurdle and Wedge was a toss-up.
Rollins over Holliday..No fuckin way.

Here's a tissue. Go cry a fuckin river.

[Mile-Hi T]

Absolute bullshit... Fuckin East coast bias.
First of all Tulo is robbed of the gold glove, look at the stats. Jimmy rollins had a great year, but Tulo led in EVERY category.
Then he is robbed of the ROY. In today's ML MVP totals. Tulo had 12 votes for MVP...Braun had 3. If the same voters vote for ROY and the MVP, how can this happen. Braun's O numbers were great, but he kept his team from getting into the playoffs with his piece of shit D.
Hurdle and Wedge was a toss-up.
Rollins over Holliday..No fuckin way.

Here's a tissue. Go cry a fuckin river.

Clever.

[jiminphilly]

Calling my shot now-
Chase Utley in 2008.

:D:D

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

less walks,

Oh, that settles it.

20% more innings pitched and 8% less walks means nothing to you?
K/BB ratio?
Hello? These stats mean something….