Diamond Hoggers BBA Award Vote

Recently, I became a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. It’s a really great group of baseball blogs on the internet. One of the best parts of being in the BBA is that you get a vote for several different seasonal awards around Major League Baseball.

I take great pride in having a vote for something like this. I will not allow any bit of homer-ism to factor into my votes. One thing to take into consideration, is that I’ve watched more National League baseball than American League this season; but I obviously follow the sport as closely as humanly possible so I don’t think it will be a factor. Do I think I got more of a glimpse of Cincinnati and Atlanta players than a Yankees or Red Sox fan? Absolutely. It will even out, I’m sure.

The Awards I will be voting on go as follows:

Connie Mack Award (Manager of the Year)
Willie Mays Award (Rookie of the Year)
Goose Gossage Award (Reliever of the Year)
Walter Johnson Award (Cy Young)
Stan Musial Award (MVP)

Connie Mack Award (Manager of the Year)

National League:
First Place Vote – Dusty Baker (Cincinnati)
Second Place Vote- Bobby Cox (Atlanta)
Third Place Vote – Bud Black (San Diego)

American League:
First Place Vote – Ron Washington (Texas)
Second Place Vote – Joe Maddon (Tampa Bay)
Third Place Vote – Ron Gardenhire (Minnesota)

Willie Mays Award (Rookie of the Year)

National League:
First Place Vote – Jason Heyward (Atlanta)
Second Place Vote – Buster Posey (San Francisco)
Third Place Vote – Mike Stanton (Florida)

American League:
First Place Vote – Austin Jackson (Detroit)
Second Place Vote – Neftali Feliz (Texas)
Third Place Vote – Danny Valencia (Minnesota)

Goose Gossage Award (Reliever of the year)

National League:
First Place Vote – Brian Wilson (San Francisco)
Second Place Vote – Billy Wagner (Atlanta)
Third Place Vote – Arthur Rhodes (Cincinnati)

American League:

First Place Vote – Rafael Soriano (Tampa Bay)
Second Place Vote – Joakim Soria (Kansas City)
Third Place Vote – Neftali Feliz (Texas)


Walter Johnson Award (Cy Young)

National League:

First Place Vote – Roy Halladay (Philadelphia)
Second Place Vote –
Ubaldo Jimenez (Colorado)
Third Place Vote – Adam Wainwright (St. Louis)
Fourth Place Vote – Josh Johnson (Florida)
Fifth Place Vote – Tim Hudson (Atlanta)

American League:
First Place Vote – Felix Hernandez (Seattle)
Second Place Vote – David Price (Tampa Bay)
Third Place Vote – Trevor Cahill (Oakland)
Fourth Place Vote – CC Sabathia (New York)
Fifth Place Vote – Jered Weaver (Anaheim)



Stan Musial Award (MVP)

National League:
First Place Vote – Joey Votto (Cincinnati)
Second Place Vote – Carlos Gonzalez (Colorado)
Third Place Vote – Albert Pujols (St. Louis)
Fourth Place Vote –
Adrian Gonzalez (San Diego)
Fifth Place Vote – Roy Halladay (Philadelphia)
Sixth Place Vote – Aubrey Huff (San Francisco)

Seventh Place Vote – Jason Heyward (Atlanta)
Eighth Place Vote – Troy Tulowitzki (Colorado)
Ninth Place Vote –
Jay Bruce (Cincinnati)
Tenth Place Vote – Ryan Zimmerman (Washington)

American League:
First Place Vote – Evan Longoria (Tampa Bay)
Second Place Vote – Josh Hamilton (Texas)
Third Place Vote – Miguel Cabrera (Detroit)
Fourth Place Vote –
Paul Konerko (Chicago AL)
Fifth Place Vote – Carl Crawford (Tampa Bay)
Sixth Place Vote – Robinson Cano (New York AL)

Seventh Place Vote – Delmon Young (Minnesota)
Eighth Place Vote – Jose Batista (Toronto)
Ninth Place Vote –
Joe Mauer (Minnesota)
Tenth Place Vote – Adrian Beltre (Boston)