Puckett's Pond » Fansided Awards http://puckettspond.com A Minnesota Twins Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Wed, 22 May 2013 00:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Call to the Pen Names Players of the Year http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/18/call-to-the-pen-names-players-of-the-year/ http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/18/call-to-the-pen-names-players-of-the-year/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:06:20 +0000 http://puckettspond.com/?p=6350  

Call to the Pen has finished the postseason awards with the Player of the Year (the Fansided equivalent of the MVP). Read the AL Results here, and read the NL results here. While you’re there, stay and check out all the other great content that Call to the Pen has to offer. It’s a great site for any MLB news and analysis.

 In the NL race, slugger Matt Kemp ran away with the award. It was closer in the AL, where Jacoby Ellsbury edged out Jose Bautista for the win. Two Tigers, Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander, finished a close third and fourth. Verlander had an amazing season, but it looks like the Fansided voters have the same reluctance to vote for a pitcher for this award that the Baseball Writers Association of America does. Michael Cuddyer came in 26th place with three points in the voting, making him the only Twins player to receive any votes. I did not vote for him myself, but I’m glad that he got some recognition. (more…)

]]> http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/18/call-to-the-pen-names-players-of-the-year/feed/ 0 Fansided Names Pitchers of the Year at Call to the Pen http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/17/fansided-names-pitchers-of-the-year-at-call-to-the-pen/ http://puckettspond.com/2011/10/17/fansided-names-pitchers-of-the-year-at-call-to-the-pen/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:02:29 +0000 http://puckettspond.com/?p=6340 Congratulations to Fansided’s AL Pitcher of the Year, Justin Verlander and the NL Pitcher of the Year, Clayton Kershaw. Read all about Verlander’s glorious accomplishment at Call to the Pen. While you’re there, check out the writeup about Kershaw, too.

In case you haven’t been following this site over the last few weeks (how dare you?), Fansided’s MLB writers have voted for all of the postseason awards, and we are releasing the results this month. Like the folks at the Baseball Writer’s Association of America, we’ve picked a Manager of theYear, a Top Rookie, a Top Reliever as well (links to all of those results are at the bottom of the Pitcher of the Year award pages). We’ll pick a Player of the Year later this week. Unlike the BBWAA, we’re not making you wait two months before we reveal the winners. So really, BBWAA is copying us, not the other way around! (more…)

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You can read about Fansided’s AL ROTY winner and voting results here, and the NL winner and voting here. I won’t spoil the surprise about who won, but I will let you know who I picked.

My first place vote went to Eric Hosmer of the Royals. I thought Hosmer’s .293/.334/.465 line looked the best of any of the rookies, and I like the intangibles he has as well. He led a Royal revival, and looks like a great centerpiece for Kansas City to keep building around as they climb further out of the AL Central basement. We can only hope that the Twins draft a cornerstone player like that with the #2 pick in 2012.

For second place, I chose Rays pitcher Jeremy Hellickson. It’s not every year that a rookie starter pitches a full year with an ERA under 3.00, but Hellickson did. He also won 13 games for a team that surged into the playoffs at the last minute, which was exciting.

As for third place, well….. (more…)

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