Baseball Reference and Fangraphs have the same Top 4 in WAR:
1. Betts2. Trout3. deGrom4. Scherzer
Baseball Prospectus is slightly different:
1. Trout2. Betts3. deGrom4. Bregman5. Scherzer
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 September 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
Nola starts tonight
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 29 September 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
Can Bob Melvin win a second manager of the year award?
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 1 October 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
^^ would be his third! (2007, 2012)
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 09:24 (five years ago) link
Jose Reyes is the Mets’ nominee for the Marvin Miller Man of the Year award.It’s an MLBPA honor, with players voting for who they “most respect based on his leadership on the field and in the community.” https://t.co/Ef0WIFkHNh— Tim Healey (@timbhealey) October 12, 2018
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 October 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
Of course. Of course.
― Andy K, Friday, 12 October 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
wow, the gold glove really is a stupid award, isn't it
― Karl Malone, Monday, 5 November 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
is the Fielding Bible the best defensive award these days, i guess? is there anything else?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 5 November 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
i get to vote for the Rawlings Platinum Glove Award, as a SABR member
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
actually i guess it's open to the Great Unwashed
https://www.rawlings.com/category-landing-pages/gold-glove-platinum-page.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 November 2018 18:55 (five years ago) link
i'll have you know i bathed last week, sir.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 November 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
insane that Lorenzo Cain has never won one
― frogbs, Monday, 5 November 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
Happy #ElectionDay! Here's a reminder from your friends at Baseball-Reference about how important it is to vote! pic.twitter.com/1owgyChl6e— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) November 6, 2018
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
:D
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
the 3 "finalists" for each award have all been announced
https://www.amazinavenue.com/2018/11/6/18069270/mets-jacob-degrom-finalist-cy-young-major-league-baseball-award-announcement
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 November 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
wait, why was I under the impression that trout had already been excluded from the top 3?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 7 November 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/CIGNHqM9ME51e/giphy.gif
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 7 November 2018 03:26 (five years ago) link
Acuna, Ohtani
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
One of those occasional instances (there was an NL MVP award a few years ago like this) where the two guys are almost in a statistical dead heat, but almost every small advantage tips in one direction--the "almost" here being Soto's higher OBP, obviously a big almost--and the vote ends up being not close at all.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
Acuña was so much fun to watch this season.
― I hear you've been having trouble with pigs and ponies. (WmC), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
acuña deserved the ROY but i think i'm more impressed with soto's season
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Because of his age?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
age, lack of experience (eight double-a games!), plate discipline, splits against LHP . . . finishing second* in the league in OBP as a teenager is incredible
also completely unexpected -- he wasn't really the nationals' top outfield prospect, and in almost any other organization he would never have been given a shot
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
snitker, melvin win the kiss of death award
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
Snitker! such a great name
(that's the Braves guy?)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
as expected, degrom wins the NL Cy Young
While the inning discussion was the great debate in the AL Cy Young Award field this year, the NL race became a referendum on the present-day value (or lack thereof) of a win stat invented in the late 1800s. Even in our more analytically savvy age, the win still has its disciples, but, ultimately, deGrom's season was so utterly and unquestionably dominant that the win was rightly rendered irrelevant.The BBWAA voters looked past deGrom's 10-9 record and focused instead on
The BBWAA voters looked past deGrom's 10-9 record and focused instead on
if everyone just stopped talking about the Win, would it finally go away?https://www.mlb.com/news/2018-cy-young-award-winners/c-300724470
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 15 November 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
Yelich and Betts win, Baez and Trout are the second-place finishers.
― omar little, Friday, 16 November 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
Now is a good time to reread some of those “did the Brewers give up too much for Yelich?” articles
― frogbs, Friday, 16 November 2018 00:33 (five years ago) link
most valuable voter: the guy who had deGrom 1st tonight
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 November 2018 01:34 (five years ago) link
He should have been a close 2nd!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 16 November 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
8 voters left him off their ballot entirely, which shows that the electorate doesn't even agree on what this motherfucking award is.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 November 2018 12:28 (five years ago) link
I wasn't quite as easygoing as #MikeTrout about it the year (1993) I came in #2 for MVP. But I wasn't in the hunt as often as him. Besides, it's not like he brought it on himself by teaching @MookieBetts about special vitamins the way I did with Barry Bonds (NL MVP in 1993).— Lenny Dykstra (@LennyDykstra) November 16, 2018
― omar little, Friday, 16 November 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
actual footage of lenny dykstra
https://i.imgur.com/krh0Zh5.jpg
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 November 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
Actually actual footage of Lenny 1 month ago:
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/former-all-star-outfielder-lenny-dykstra-indicted-on-drug-threat-charges/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 November 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
Dykstra is facing three third-degree charges: possession of cocaine, possession of methamphetamine and making terroristic threats. Each stems from the May incident Dykstra had with an Uber driver, during which he allegedly held a gun to the driver's head.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 November 2018 18:28 (five years ago) link
If you get easily upset by stuff like this, do not read--you will have a coronary.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/11/15/one-writer-who-voted-max-scherzer-ahead-jacob-degrom-cy-young-explains-his-ballot/?utm_term=.014f3201a619
― clemenza, Friday, 16 November 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
*has coronary*
― I hear you've been having trouble with pigs and ponies. (WmC), Friday, 16 November 2018 20:03 (five years ago) link
that's silly, but not as silly as people who are upset about degrom's win not being unanimous. scherzer had a pretty good season, and it's not like this guy had degrom fifth
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
When I opened the piece up, I honestly thought it would be somebody talking about FIP or Win Probability Added or wOBA or some small but meaningful-to-him sabermetric edge the writer had discerned in Scherzer's line. His rationale was the last thing I expected (as recently as two or three years ago, it would have been the first thing I expected, which I think is indicative of how fast things are changing).
If you step back and think about how good a season Scherzer had, I think that's a fair statement.
― clemenza, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
And Randy Jones! As a '70s guy, that had me smiling mightily. (Did he think to check in with Clay Kirby?)
― clemenza, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
Who, come to think of it, once lost 20, and in '71/'72 went 27-27 with a ERA under 3.00. Clay would have counselled that he vote for deGrom.
― clemenza, Friday, 16 November 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
Maffei, 70, said
― k3vin k., Friday, 16 November 2018 21:53 (five years ago) link
Scherzer and Nola were somewhat closer to deGrom than the tally indicates. Worrying about whether an award vote is unanimous... idgi. That said, if pitchers are supposed to be eligible for the MVP, the 8 guys who blanked deGrom clearly don't believe it.
And here's Jeff Sullivan who cast his AL vote for Verlander:
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/i-voted-for-justin-verlander/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 November 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
I always like looking at updated award-shares on Baseball Reference. Scherzer has moved into 8th-place on the Cy list; Verlander into 11th; and Kluber into 15th. (Kershaw was shut out for the first time since 2010.) Trout is 11th on the MVP list--5.06 shares, which at least is a lot more representative than his two awards.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/mvp_cya.shtml
James had a tweet that 97 MVPs are in the HOF, 59 are not, 63%. But I assume the not-in total includes all active winners, some of whom will move into the other column. Of the last 23 winners starting in 2005--Pujols' first MVP; all winners before that are retired--I'd estimate that 12-15 will end up in the HOF, making the ratio more like 110-46, or 70%.
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 November 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
I liked the Jeff Sullivan piece above--he's basically trying to figure out the same thing I was, how Snell gave up more baserunners than Verlander but fewer runs. He's doing it at a microscopic level--I can't do that--whereas I landed on HR and GIDP (I don't think he mentions either). And he's trying to figure out "To what extent was Snell responsible for his results?" He seems to conclude that there's a lot of luck and good defense involved, while also conceding that "I know pitchers sometimes try to pitch to their ballparks or defenses or whatnot."
I look at Snell's 15-3 advantage in GIDP (in fewer innings) and think, well, give four of the extra double-plays to his defense, four of them to luck/shifting, and the other four to Snell (pitchers do try to induce ground balls, right?). Pure guesswork, I know, but Sullivan admits that there's conjecture in what he does, too: "It’s very possible, if not probable, that’s not giving Snell enough credit. Maybe he was in some way able to pitch to his defenders."
I don't think there's a right answer. His evidence is interesting, but it's so granular, I think you're starting to drift away from the reality of all those extra runs. I liked this reader comment: "Some day, people will be using nothing but spin rate and pitch location to vote for Cy Young. Shortly thereafter, the award will be retired."
― clemenza, Saturday, 17 November 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
Reader commenter OTM.
Some people tried to make a case for Rizzo based on WPA during the year that Harper won MVP. Nobody claimed that Rizzo had some magical clutch hitting ability, or that it was a repeatable skill, but the bottom line is that those hits did help his team win games, which obviously counts for something. If they'd been closer in WAR it might have made an impact on the voting, like with Snell and Verlander.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 17 November 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
khris davis beats out j.d. martinez for the edgar martinez designated hitter of the year award
which is pretty absurd
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
Huh? I'm pretty easy-going when it comes to award voting--I can at least almost always see the outline of the argument as to why some guy did or didn't win, even if I don't agree. But that makes zero sense. You're talking about .247/.326/.549 vs. .330/.402/.629., 2.9 WAR vs. 6.4. Not even close, no matter what metrics you use.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
the edgar martinez award committee is corrupt
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Martinez appeared in 32 games as a RF, another 25 games in LF, 93 as DH. Davis appeared in 11 games as a LF, 139 as DH.
i guess they just saw Davis as more of a pure DH? beats me
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link