2012 PSD Awards Votes

[Jeffy25]

Just like last year, I will be hosting the annual PSD awards votes.

You will submit your vote for each available award by PM. If you simply post it in this thread, IT WILL NOT COUNT.

You are also welcomed to post in this thread your selections, but it isn't necessary and again, that will not count as your vote. You must Private Message me your ballot!!!!


The deadline for submitting ballots is midnight November 2nd, so you'll have through 1st to send your ballot in.

PLEASE READ ALL THE RULES
There have been some changes to the ballots, most notably the Gold Glove award for outfielders.

Rules:
1) All ballots must be sent by Private Message to Jeffy25.

2) Please try to be as unbiased as you can when voting. Please vote for players based on the merits of their performance and the award at hand. Don't vote for your favorite players if they're clearly not worthy.

3) All ballots must be easily readable. Each award has multiple slots on the ballot. Please number your ballot for each award so that the spot you place a player is easily seen. Alternatively, you can list players separated by commas, with your #1 vote being first, #2 second, and so on.

4) You do not have to vote for each award. Just make sure to designate which awards you are voting for. See the following for an example of an organized ballot:
AL MVP
1) Player X
2) Player F
3) Player V
4) Player FH
5) Player YF
6) Player ET
7) Player UV
8) Player AG
9) Player ED
10) Player YI

NL MVP
1) Player Z
2) Player A
3) Player B
4) Player UR
5) Player KF
6) Player AD
7) Player WE
8) Player PL
9) Player CB
10) Player GH

AL Cy Young
1) Player 1
2) Player 2
3) Player 3
4) Player 4
5) Player 5

NL Cy Young
1) Player 6
2) Player 7
3) Player 8
4) Player 9
5) Player 10

or, alternatively:
AL MVP: Player 1, Player 2, Player 3, Player 4, etc.
AL Cy Young: Player 1, Player 2, Player 3
AL ROTY: Player 1, Player 2, Player 3

5) Please fill out the EXACT amount of slots available for any awards you're voting for. For MVP, please list exactly 10 players, no more, no less. For Cy Young, exactly 5 pitchers. For Gold Glove and Silver Slugger, exactly 3 players per position, and so on.

6) Any ballots that don't adhere to these rules will not be counted. I will reply to you if your ballot does not follow the rules, and give you a chance to resubmit it in accordance with the rules.


The awards we will be voting on are as follows. Each award will have two winners, one from each league, so please vote separately for each league in each award. Note that this does not apply to the Loaiza/Anderson/Turnbow awards, which will have one winner from all of MLB rather than one per league. The numbers in parenthesis are the amount of players per league each voter must list on their ballot.

For the 10-slot MVP ballot, a 1st place vote is worth 14 points, a 2nd place vote is worth 9 points, a 3rd place vote is worth 8 points, and so on down to a 10th place vote being worth 1 point.

For the 5-slot Cy Young ballot, a 1st place vote is worth 7 points, a 2nd place vote is worth 4 points, a 3rd place vote is worth 3 points, a 4th place vote is worth 2 points and a 5th place vote is worth 1 point.

For all 3-slot ballots, a 1st place vote is worth 5 points, a 2nd place vote is worth 3 points, and a 3rd place vote is worth 1 point.




Here are the number of votes you need to fill out
One per league:
Most Valuable Player (10)
Cy Young Award (5)
Rookie of the Year (3) (The rookie thresholds are 130 at bats, 50 innings pitched, or 45 days on the active roster of a major league club, excluding time on the disabled list. A player who, at the beginning of the season, is over any of those thresholds is not eligible for the award.)
Relief Pitcher of the Year (3)
Hank Aaron Award (3) (Best offensive performer)
Gold Glove (3 P, 3 C, 3 1B, 3 2B, 3 3B, 3 SS, 3 LF, 3 CF, 3 RF)
Silver Slugger (3 P in NL, 3 DH in AL, 3 C, 3 1B, 3 2B, 3 3B, 3 SS, 3 LF, 3 CF, 3 RF)
Manager of the Year (3)
General Manager of the Year (3)
Comeback Player of the Year (3)
Breakout Position Player of the Year (3)
Breakout Pitcher of the Year (3)

One for MLB:
Esteban Loaiza Award (3)
Brady Anderson Award (3)
Derrick Turnbow Award (3)

Please make note that each separate outfield position will get its own award for Gold Glove. On your ballots, please list a player at the position which he played the most games.

For descriptions of the following six awards - Comeback Player, Breakout Position Player, Breakout Pitcher, Esteban Loaiza, Brady Anderson, Derrick Turnbow - along with possible candidates, please see the Preliminary Discussion Thread. For the Loaiza/Anderson/Turnbow awards, we will only be awarding one player, rather than one player per league, so please vote accordingly. This is due to the limited number of candidates.

Please feel free to post or PM any questions you may have. Thanks all, and I look forward to the voting!

[Jeffy25]

Here are my votes


AL MVP
1 Mike Trout
2 Robinson Cano
3 Miguel Cabrera
4 Justin Verlander
5 Adrian Beltre
6 Ben Zobrist
7 Austin Jackson
8 Prince Fielder
9 Alex Gordon
10 Edwin Encarnacion


NL MVP
1 Ryan Braun
2 Buster Posey
3 Andrew McCutchen
4 David Wright
5 Yadier Molina
6 Chase Headley
7 Joey Votto
8 Clayton Kershaw
9 Aramis Ramirez
10 R.A. Dickey


AL Cy Young
1 Justin Verlander
2 David Price
3 Chris Sale
4 Jered Weaver
5 Felix Hernandez


NL Cy Young
1 Clayton Kershaw
2 R.A. Dickey
3 Johnny Cueto
4 Gio Gonzalez
5 Jordan Zimmerman

AL Roy
1 Mike Trout
2 Yu Darvish
3 Yoennis Cespedes

NL Roy
1 Bryce Harper
2 Todd Frazier
3 Wade Miley


AL Silver Slugger
C - Joe Mauer
Carlos Santana
AJ Pierzynzki

1B - Prince Fielder
Albert Pujols
Paul Konerko

2B - Robinson Cano
Dustin Pedroia
Ian Kinsler

3B - Miguel Cabrera
Adrian Beltre
Alex Rodriguez

SS - Derek Jeter
Asdrubal Cabrera
Elvis Andrus

LF - Josh Hamilton
Josh Willingham
Alex Gordon

CF - Mike Trout
Austin Jackson
Adam Jones

RF - Ben Zobrist
Shin Soo Choo
Alex Rios

DH - Edwin Encarnacion
Billy Butler
Adam Dunn



NL Silver Slugger

C - Buster Posey
Yadier Molina
Carlos Ruiz

1B - Joey Votto
Allen Craig
Adam LaRoche

2B - Aaron Hill
Marco Scutaro
Rickie Weeks

3B - Chase Headley
David Wright
Aramis Ramirez

SS - Ian Desmond
Jose Reyes
Rimmy Rollins

LF - Ryan Braun
Matt Holliday
Carlos Gonzalez

CF - Andrew McCutchen
Dexter Fowler
Bryce Harper

RF - Giancarlo Stanton
Carlos Beltran
Jason Heyward

AL GG

C - Salvador Perez
Alex Avila
Matt Wieters

1B - Mark Teixeria
Albert Pujols
Adrian Gonzalez

2B - Robinson Cano
Alexi Casilla
Dustin Pedroia

3B - Brett Lawrie
Mike Moustakas
Adrian Beltre

SS - Brendan Ryan
J.J. Hardy
Yunel Escobar

LF - Alex Gordon
Desmond Jennings
David Murphy

CF - Mike Trout
Denard Span
Colby Rasmus

RF - Josh Reddick
Torii Hunter
Ichiro Suzuki

NL Gold Gloves

C - Yadier Molina
Ryan Hanigan
Yasmani Grandal

1B - Joey Votto
Adam LaRoche
Gaby Sanchez

2B - Darwin Barney
Brandon Phillips
Mark Ellis

3B - David Wright
Luis Cruz
Aramis Ramirez

SS - Andrelton Simmons
Clint Barnes
Brandon Crawford

LF - Martin Prado
Ryan Braun
Shane Victorino

CF - Michael Bourn
Bryce Harper
Cameron Maybin

RF - Jason Heyward
Giancarlo Stanton
Carlos Beltran

Hank Aaron Award
AL
Miguel Cabrera
Mike Trout
Prince Fielder

NL
Ryan Braun
Andrew McCutchen
Buster Posey

Relief Pitcher of the Year Award
AL
Jim Johnson
Fernando Rodney
Darren O’Day

NL
Craig Kimbrel
Aroldis Chapman
Steve Chisek

Manager of the Year Award
AL
Buck Showalter
Bob Melvin
Joe Maddon

NL
Davey Johnson
Mike Matheny
Clint Hurdle

General Manager of the Year Award
AL
Billy Beane
Andrew Friedman
Jon Daniels

NL
John Mozilak
Rizzo
Walt Jocketty

Comeback Player of the Year Award
AL
Adam Dunn
Joe Mauer
Jake Peavy

NL
David Wright
Aaron Hill
Alfonso Soriano

Breakout Position Player of the Year Award
AL
Edwin Encarnacion
Austin Jackson
Josh Reddick

NL
Andrew McCutchen
Chase Headley
Buster Posey

Breakout Pitcher of the Year Award
AL
Chris Sale
Jim Johnson
Max Scherzer


NL
Lance Lynn
Chris Capuano
R.A. Dickey

Estaban Loaiza Award
Kyle Lohse

Brady Anderson Award
Justin Ruggiano

Derrick Turnbow Award
Fernando Rodney

[Vixious]

It's ridiculous to me that Kershaw and Trout are only 24 and 21 years old respectively.

On topic, I'd like to light-heartedly challenge your choices Jeffy You stated that we should separate the breakouts from the Loaiza/Anderson/Turnbow awards, but you've got Encarnacion as both a breakout player (considered to maintain his success) and an Anderson Award winner (expected to fall off).

[Jeffy25]

It's ridiculous to me that Kershaw and Trout are only 24 and 21 years old respectively.

On topic, I'd like to light-heartedly challenge your choices Jeffy You stated that we should separate the breakouts from the Loaiza/Anderson/Turnbow awards, but you've got Encarnacion as both a breakout player (considered to maintain his success) and an Anderson Award winner (expected to fall off).

Whoops, you nailed me


I'll need to change that, thank you very much, and great catch.

Looking forward to your votes as well.

[Vixious]

You also mentioned that the breakout player of the year should be a non-rookie. Mike Trout is a rookie, good sir. I think that's two catches in as many posts

Brady Anderson Award - Given to the position player who performed at a level completely unexpected for that year by most reasonable predictions. Candidates should be judged by both excellence in the given year and also by the unpredictability of said excellence.

While I like Encarnacion at breakout player of the year because I can see him maintaining his success, I think the epitome of your "Brady Anderson Award" is Torii Hunter. He just had the best season of his life at 37 years of age, and will most likely not repeat that same level of production in 2013, thus perfectly fitting your criteria.

[Vixious]

Actually you yourself made this post in response to someone nominating Trout as breakout player of the year:

Rookies do not count

As it says in the description

"Given to a non-rookie in each league who"

I couldn't fault you though, it's fairly late at night and a moderator's job comes with a lot of work

[agureghian]

Billy Beane is baffled at your choice for manager of the year, Jeffy.

80m vs 49m

4 rookie SPs, "supposed to lose 100 games", converted several player positions, beat out the 2 time AL champs for the AL west championship in a 3 game of the season sweep.

[Jeffy25]

Actually you yourself made this post in response to someone nominating Trout as breakout player of the year:



I couldn't fault you though, it's fairly late at night and a moderator's job comes with a lot of work

Well **** in a hat. Next time I'll just message you my vote so you can shift through it for corrections lol.

Thanks, I'll revise my own ballot.

[Vixious]

no sweat, it's clear that you've put a lot of work into this and it's only human to make a mistake here or there.

Next time you guys run this thing (I guess in 2013), I'd also like to maybe see an award for the biggest disappointment that credits the player who fell completely short of expectations.

Guys like Ricky Romero and Timmy Lincecum need a place on this list too!

[Krush]

I can't believe you put a triple crown winner 3rd on your mvp votes.

[Vixious]

I can.

[Jeffy25]

I can't believe you put a triple crown winner 3rd on your mvp votes.

Pretty easy considering he isn't the best all around player in the American League this season

In fact, the other forum I am a part of, nobody has him above second, and most have him third.

You have to completely ignore base running and defense to give Cabrera the MVP, and Cano has just as much argument for being the best all around player in the American League this season as Miggy does.

Just to compare Cano and Miggy

Runs Created
Miggy - 137
Cano - 123

Defensive Runs Saved
Miggy - -4
Cano - 15

Total Net Runs Earned
Miggy - 133
Cano - 139.8

Add to that Cano beats Miggy in fWAR and rWAR.

You have to completely ignore defense to vote Miggy for the MVP. He deserves the Hank Aaron Award, and the Silver Slugger at third base. But there isn't nearly a sufficient enough argument to place him as the MVP, Trout clearly deserves it over him, and there is plenty of argument for Cano to have earned it over him as well.

[VRP723]

I'm not doing the GG's and SS's, too much work. Also Jeffy it's Bob Melvin, Doug is the GM.

AL MVP
1 Mike Trout
2 Miguel Cabrera
3 Robinson Cano
4 Adrian Beltre
5 Justin Verlander
6 Felix Hernandez
7 Prince Fielder
8 Austin Jackson
9 David Price
10 Edwin Encarnacion


NL MVP
1 Buster Posey
2 Ryan Braun
3 R.A. Dickey
4 Andrew McCutchen
5 David Wright
6 Yadier Molina
7 Clayton Kershaw
8 Chase Headley
9 Gio Gonzalez
10 A.J. Ellis


AL Cy Young
1 Justin Verlander
2 Felix Hernandez
3 David Price
4 Jered Weaver
5 Chris Sale


NL Cy Young
1 R.A. Dickey
2 Clayton Kershaw
3 Gio Gonzalez
4 Matt Cain
5 Johnny Cueto

AL Roy
1 Mike Trout
2 Yu Darvish
3 Yoennis Cespedes

NL Roy
1 Bryce Harper
2 Wade Miley
3 Norichika Aoki

Hank Aaron Award

AL
Miguel Cabrera
Mike Trout
Prince Fielder

NL
Ryan Braun
Andrew McCutchen
Buster Posey

Relief Pitcher of the Year Award

AL
Fernando Rodney
Jim Johnson
Joe Nathan

NL
Craig Kimbrel
Aroldis Chapman
Kenley Jansen

Manager of the Year Award

AL
Bob Melvin
Buck Showalter
Joe Maddon

NL
Davey Johnson
Mike Matheny
Bruce Bochy

General Manager of the Year Award

AL
Billy Beane
Dan Duquette
Brian Cashman

NL
Mike Rizzo
Brian Sabean
Walt Jocketty

Comeback Player of the Year Award

AL
Adam Dunn
Jake Peavy
Torii Hunter

NL
David Wright
Adam Wainwright
Alfonso Soriano

Breakout Position Player of the Year Award

AL
Edwin Encarnacion
Josh Reddick
Kyle Seager

NL
Chase Headley
A.J. Ellis
Allen Craig

Breakout Pitcher of the Year Award
AL
Max Scherzer
Chris Sale
Scott Diamond

NL
R.A. Dickey
Jeff Samardzija
Homer Bailey

Estaban Loaiza Award
Wei-Yin Chen

Brady Anderson Award
Ian Desmond

Derrick Turnbow Award
Fernando Rodney

[RTL]

PM your votes to yourself, Jeffy!!

[SFrush90]

I can't believe you put a triple crown winner 3rd on your mvp votes.

Triple Crown doesn't mean MVP if that's what you're getting at.