For full results of this year's IBA voting, look here. For the AL IBA writeup, look here. To see how Baseball Prospectus authors voted, look here.
Awards
- National League Player of the Year
- National League Cy Young
- National League Rookie of the Year
- National League Manager of the Year
National League Player of the Year
Buster Posey capped an altogether outstanding 2012 campaign with his first Internet Baseball Awards Player of the Year honors. The San Francisco Giants catcher led the league in WARP and TAv (min. 200 PA) while helping to take the Giants to a World Series title, despite the fact that he was coming back from a heinous-looking injury that made an indelible impression on anyone who saw it. He's a catcher, he's handling a star-studded pitching staff that was at its best when it mattered most, and he's the best hitter in the league. Maybe we shouldn't have been surprised by Buster Posey, but he was bar none the best player in the National League in 2012.
Posey is only the second catcher to win the IBA National League Player of the Year award. Mike Piazza won the NL Player of the Year in 1996 and 1997.
Ryan Braun, last year's second-place finisher in the Internet Baseball Awards NL POY race, finished second again this year. Sam Miller wondered how many votes he was going to lose recently.
Rnk Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 B P 1. Buster Posey 391 102 44 9 2 0 0 1 1 0 550 6824 2. Ryan Braun 99 176 135 59 21 4 3 4 1 2 504 4637 3. Andrew McCutchen 40 143 147 97 43 16 8 3 0 3 500 4084 4. Yadier Molina 31 76 88 104 57 30 11 5 5 4 411 3115 5. David Wright 2 7 27 60 105 75 36 17 15 4 348 1961 6. Chase Headley 1 15 33 78 93 47 30 19 9 8 333 1955 7. Joey Votto 2 11 16 20 31 26 24 19 11 14 174 900 8. R.A. Dickey 4 5 17 17 30 20 22 32 14 9 170 857 9. Jason Heyward 1 1 4 11 13 23 30 28 11 14 136 565 10. Carlos Beltran 3 7 9 13 24 12 10 7 8 6 99 555 89 TOTAL 583 583 583 583 583 406 340 295 251 217 4424 30646
All Internet Baseball Awards National League Player of the Year results
National League Pitcher of the Year
Continuing the theme of larger-than-life 2012 stories, we go from Posey's injury to R.A. Dickey's incredible journey back from the pitching hinterlands with a dominant rubber-armed power-knuckle performance. Dickey paced the league in innings pitched in 2012, and that's always a good place to start. He won 20 games for a lousy Mets team, which doesn't hurt either. This was an easy first-place choice for Internet Baseball Awards voters, with Dickey netting a majority (52.5 percent) of first-place votes.
Internet Baseball Award 2011 Player of the Year winner and Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was the second-place finisher. A pair of Washington Nationals, Gio Gonzalez and Stephen Strasburg, and Cincinnati Reds starter Johnny Cueto complete the Internet Baseball Awards Player of the Year top five.
Rnk Name 1 2 3 4 5 B P 1. R.A. Dickey 302 122 60 23 8 515 4251 2. Clayton Kershaw 137 150 88 53 32 460 3051 3. Gio Gonzalez 49 134 121 93 40 437 2352 4. Johnny Cueto 17 49 104 74 45 289 1300 5. Stephen Strasburg 28 32 47 42 34 183 899 6. Matt Cain 10 19 43 51 53 176 654 7. Craig Kimbrel 15 18 29 53 58 173 638 8. Kris Medlen 5 16 14 29 31 95 350 9. Cliff Lee 3 14 21 26 31 95 342 10. Cole Hamels 3 6 9 30 29 77 236 42 TOTAL 575 575 575 531 456 2712 14699
All Internet Baseball Awards National League Pitcher of the Year results
National League Rookie of the Year
Bryce Harper faced (and bested) big-league pitching at age 19. It's tough to argue with the voting results: Harper had two long, hellaciously hot streaks on his way to a 4.5 WARP, which paced National League rookie qualifiers in 2012.
Arizona Diamondbacks left-hander Wade Miley brings a lot to the table. He pitched nearly 200 innings, with a 3.33 ERA and 3.09 FIP, a strong showing for a rookie pitcher. Cincinnati Reds third baseman Todd Frazier hit 19 home runs and put up an above-average .284 TAv at the plate. Japanese import Norichika Aoki was a surprise standout for the Brewers in 2012—his .283 TAv was a point off of Frazier's, and he also stole 30 bases and played well defensively.
Rnk Name 1 2 3 4 5 B P 1. Bryce Harper 419 65 21 8 1 514 4775 2. Wade Miley 70 252 57 17 6 402 2806 3. Todd Frazier 25 69 156 51 35 336 1701 4. Norichika Aoki 6 46 93 85 29 259 1131 5. Wilin Rosario 8 28 40 28 18 122 578 6. Anthony Rizzo 5 24 31 29 24 113 484 7. Mike Fiers 0 13 36 30 32 111 393 8. Zack Cozart 1 9 25 18 28 81 280 9. Yasmani Grandal 2 6 14 18 14 54 200 10. Yonder Alonso 0 3 13 10 9 35 125 62 TOTAL 547 547 547 351 251 2243 13338
All Internet Baseball Awards National League Rookie of the Year results
National League Manager of the Year
Davey Johnson pushed the program up a year in Washington, and the Nationals had the best record in the National League. Johnson is generally regarded as a sabermetric favorite, but this is his first Internet Baseball Awards Manager of the Year award. Runner-up Mike Matheny went straight from the bench to the manager's office and led yet another late-peaking St. Louis Cardinals squad that punched above its weight in the playoffs.
Rnk Name 1 2 3 B P 1. Davey Johnson 382 69 15 466 2132 2. Mike Matheny 65 137 91 293 827 3. Bruce Bochy 53 140 90 283 775 4. Dusty Baker 19 90 84 193 449 5. Fredi Gonzalez 8 38 36 82 190 17 TOTAL 546 546 414 1506 4782
All Internet Baseball Awards National League Manager of the Year results
Thank you for reading
This is a free article. If you enjoyed it, consider subscribing to Baseball Prospectus. Subscriptions support ongoing public baseball research and analysis in an increasingly proprietary environment.
Subscribe now
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/other/iba2012/
thanks!