Every year, SBN conducts an internal vote among our baseball bloggers to determine the results of MLB's annual awards. Our votes don't really count, but it's a neat exercise to see if we can do a better job of picking the winners than the real voters whose actual votes we deride for being shoddy and misinformed.
I was only given a vote for the National League awards, but I will include the results of both leagues here over the coming days.
Rookies of the Year
Managers of the Year
My Ballot
- Jake Peavy
- Tim Hudson
- Brad Penny
Tim Hudson was terrific this year, but had a bit of bad luck and played for a so-so Braves team so he managed to accumulate a nothing special 16-10 record. He doesn't have incredible strikeout marks, but he doesn't walk many, he gives up very few homeruns, and he collects almost three groundballs for every ball he puts in the air.
I basically had three guys very close: Hudson, Brad Penny and Brandon Webb. If I filled out my ballot on a different day, #2 and #3 might have been different, so I can't fault anyone for putting Webb in the top three.
National League | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jake Peavy | 21 | - | - | 105 |
Brandon Webb | - | 17 | 1 | 72 |
Brad Penny | - | - | 10 | 10 |
John Smoltz | - | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Cole Hamels | - | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Jeff Francis | - | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Tim Hudson | - | 1 | - | 3 |
Aaron Harang | - | - | 3 | 3 |
Chris Young | - | - | 2 | 2 |
Carlos Zambrano | - | - | 1 | 1 |
American League | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|
C. C. Sabathia | 13 | 3 | 2 | 76 |
Josh Beckett | 3 | 10 | 2 | 47 |
John Lackey | 2 | 3 | 4 | 23 |
Fausto Carmona | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
Johan Santana | - | 1 | 4 | 7 |
Erik Bedard | - | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Roy Halladay | - | - | 1 | 1 |