2020 awards thread

I wonder if there have been more slash triple crowns vs traditional.

I'd assume yes, just because RBIs are situational/luck-based whereas pure slash is not.

xps those salvador stats probably came after his game last night, where he already had 2 HRs and 5 RBI off of Carlos Martinez when i turned out around the 4th inning, before Martinez came out of the game with an injury.

so yes, way more slash triple crown winners. 47 of them vs 18 regular. the first person to win it: Piano Legs Gore.

I doubt it will happen, but if Bauer were to win the Cy Young, it would be the first time that award was won by a Reds pitcher. I'd figure Bucky Walters might have won that award if they had it back in the late 30s, as he won an MVP and the pitching triple crown.

The Padres have had four different winners.

Kind of a fluky thing when you think about it.

Well now I’m trying to guess who the four Padres are.

trevor hoffman, andy benes and tony gwynn iirc

where have you gone, Randy Jones

surely one for Trevor Hoffman

wrong on Hoffman but I correctly remembered the late-career HOFer who won one with SD (first of two seasons there)

Phil Niekro should've won that year, only time he led the league's pitchers in WAR*

*Awards blow

it's okay -- the mets have a no-hitter and the padres don't

i also guessed hoffman, benes, and gwynn.

Mario Soto or Jose Rijo possibly should have won a CY--they had some great years, though I'd have to check how the timing went.

Probably behind a paywall, but Jayson Stark's picks:

http://theathletic.com/2090616/2020/09/25/stark-handing-out-my-2020-awards-from-cy-young-to-cy-yuk-mvp-to-lvp/

(Abreu and Freeman, Bieber and Bauer.)

I read that awful underrated/overrated book of his, so not particularly a fan.

Rijo led Maddux p comfortably in WAR in '93.

Yeah, I looked it up...There was a good argument to be made for Soto in '82 or '83, but it wasn't clear-cut either year (he slightly trailed Rogers in '82 and Denny in '83 in bWAR; Denny won, Rogers finished second).

on the other side of that, fWAR puts soto 8th for '83, behind:

Steve Carlton	7.4
John Denny	5.8
Rick Rhoden	5.0
Steve Rogers	4.9
Jerry Reuss	4.8
Atlee Hammaker	4.6
John Candelaria	4.5
Mario Soto	4.5
Larry McWilliams	4.3
Fernando Valenzuela	4.2

poor steve carlton

Poor Atlee Hammaker! (Seven earned runs in 0.2 innings at that year's AS Game.)

truly, poor atlee hammaker. i have to admit that i didn't even recognize his name!

look at all those pirates

in the last 25 years, exactly two pirate pitchers have topped larry mcwilliams' 4.3 fWAR in a season -- gerrit cole in 2015 (5.1) and oliver perez in 2004 (4.5)

well, i think degrom is now out of the NL cy equation : /

Jake Peavy! I'm also guessing Gaylord Perry, which is probably a longshot because he played for so many teams.

Yup. Those are the easy ones.

I see now that I'm a day late on this trivia question and they everyone has looked up the answer by now ... carry on.

I assume Brandon Lowe will be Top 5 in AL MVP?

Using the ILB fantasy league categories as guidelines:

NL MVP: Freeman
AL MVP: JRamirez
NL CY: Darvish
AL CY: Bieber
NL ROY: Dustin May
AL ROY: Kyle Lewis (barely edging Luis Robert & Cristian Javier)

Name them after Frank Robinson, the only player to win in both leagues. https://t.co/Nwa9syw0wJ

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) October 2, 2020

The awards will be nameless in 2020.

honestly, this is the first time i learned they had a name!

i didnt know til this year. Mike Schmidt got some ink for pushing for the change.

Another well deserved award for @ncboomstick23!

Nelson Cruz has been named the 2020 Marvin Miller Man of the Year, an award voted on by his peers as the player they "most respect based on his leadership on the field and in the community." Congrats Nellie! #MNTwins pic.twitter.com/WALetzuOyK

— Minnesota Twins (@Twins) October 22, 2020

I don't think you can say for sure whether Cruz will be mostly remembered for the eight home runs or the play in game 6 until some time passes.
― clemenza, Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:07 PM

Seeing as nobody's blaming him *now* for blowing the game, it's safe to say that he won't be remembered for it...Let's agree to revive the thread in five years and discuss it then.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:48 PM (Two different posts joined together)

We have a date. Between two days of perspective and five years, I'll go for the five years.
― clemenza, Saturday, October 29, 2011 5:12 PM

Nine years later: NoTime was right, I was wrong.

Funny how you revived this the day before a more memorable all-time defensive screw up in the WS.

I wonder if there was even one baseball fan, in 2011, who thought that Cruz (31 at the time) would go on to hit 300+ HR.

When he hit free agency, the consensus was you'd be crazy to give him a multi-year deal and overpay for 25-30 HR/year (with a .300 OBP and bad defense, assuming that his skills didn't fall off a cliff in his mid-30's). And somehow he ended up on the shortlist of the greatest 40-year old hitters ever.

Holy shxx the Rays won game 4? I figured it was done and turned it off.

How could you turn off a back and forth game like that?!

Liam Hendricks wins Reliever of the Year

1.4 fWAR (2nd in MLB RPs to Devin Williams)
1.1 bWAR (2nd in MLB RPs to his teammate Jake Diekman*)

*Diekman's fWAR is 0.5, earning him 49th place of all MLP RPs... which is why I'm always fascinated to compare these two sites.

1.4 fWAR (2nd in MLB RPs to Devin Williams)

Williams takes NL ROY

Lewis unanimous in the AL.

god bless devin williams but ffs he threw 27 innings

Did he ever.

yeah it was the one bright spot of our season come on

he was the one bright spot of 5% of your season

yeah that's right

AL MVP: Abreu!

Anyone predict that? Clemenza? Morbs?

Seems like a pretty good vote. Freeman surprised me--I thought it'd be Betts or Tatis.

One man’s mistake is another man’s claim to an NL MVP vote. Thanks Rick! Honored by the vote. 😂 https://t.co/wsqJpbHpcN

— Ryan Tepera (@RTepera) November 13, 2020