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BBA Ballot

You guys saw Part 1, right? If you didn’t, here’s a recap:
10. Chris Carpenter, RHP, St. Louis Cardinals (6.08 WAR)
9. Prince Fielder, 1B, Milwaukee Brewers (5.93 WAR)
8. Dan Haren, RHP, Arizona Diamondbacks (6.25 WAR)
7. Javier Vazquez, RHP, Atlanta Braves (6.34 WAR)
6. Adrian Gonzalez, 1B, San Diego Padres (6.34 WAR)
Now here’s the conclusion of my BBA [...]

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Congratulations to Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals and Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants for winning the BBA’s award for the AL and NL Cy Young awards respectively. This is a great year to debunk the myth of the pitcher win-loss record, and I’m happy that our group’s voters saw that these [...]

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The Tribe Daily’s AL MVP ballot submission.

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The MVP is the one award I believe should take into account team success, as well as individual numbers. This isn’t to say that Ryan Braun and Adam Lind aren’t legitimate candidates just because they played on losing teams, merely that when they are compared to men with similar statistics on winning teams, they fall [...]

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The Cy Young Award ballot submission for the Tribe Daily, as well as an update on the Cleveland Indians managerial search.

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Much to my surprise and glee, the BBA Rookie of the Year in the NL went to Andrew McCutchen. The BBA voters weren’t at all swayed by Chris Coghlan’s high batting average or the gaudy ERA of J.A. Happ, resoundingly supporting McCutchen, who garnered twelve of the twenty first-place votes and 65 total points. Tommy [...]

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The BBA Manager of the Year Awards were today. Check it out. And, thanks to some abbreviated Division Series, there is no baseball for a couple of days, so it’s as good a time as any to post my thoughts on the NL Rookie of the Year. Several of the major media outlets, particularly [...]

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The Tribe Daily’s AL Rookie of the Year ballot submission, as well as looking back on the numerous Cleveland Indians that won’t be winning the award this year.

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The first award coming up is the Manager of the Year. The last time I checked, Cleveland was in the AL, but I’m sure we all wish they were in the NL in a division with the Pirates, Nationals and the Mets. So yeah, I’m voting for the AL Manager of the year.

My first inclination is to give Eric Wedge a vote.

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Rise of the Rays has recently become a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, AKA the BBA. The BBA is a group of 79 bloggers from every team in baseball. One of our duties as members of the BBA is to submit our ballots for the end of year awards for the American League in [...]

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