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November 10, 1997 1997 Internet Baseball Awards™ Results
The following is the results of the sixth annual Internet Baseball Awards™,
as voted on by denizens of the Usenet rec.sport.baseball newsgroups,
Baseball Prospectus readers and many other cyberspace baseball fans.
This year, for the first time, the Awards were conducted primarily thru a
Web ballot, though e-mail ballots were still accepted. This changeover
was hugely successful, as we received ballots from approximately 300
voters - that's easily a record - and over 85% of the ballots came thru
the Web.
The point system for the balloting was as follows:
This year's awards were helped along by the fine folks at the Baseball
Prospectus, most especially David Pease, who designed the web site for
the ballot. All of us associated with the Awards greatly appreciate the
work of the voters, especially the ones who take the time to fill out
complete and thoughtful ballots (and that is the great majority).
NL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER:
For the second year in a row, the NL MVP race was the closest of the Internet
Baseball Awards, as Dodgers catcher Mike Piazza repeated his victory of last
year over a strong challenge from Rockies outfielder Larry Walker. Walker
had a tremendous year, even in the context of playing half his games in Coors
Field, but Piazza's efforts for the Dodgers, which resulted in one of the
greatest offensive seasons for a catcher in major league history, won the
favor of the voters. Piazza has now finished among the top 3 in Internet NL
MVP voting each of his 4 full seasons in the majors. Barry Bonds finished
third, continuing his streak of having finished in the top 4 in all 6 years
of Internet NL MVP balloting. Jeff Bagwell, who finished fourth, has
established himself as another perennial Internet NL MVP contender.
Meanwhile, Todd Hundley managed the interesting feat of finished in tenth
place for the second year in a row. And last year's BBWAA NL MVP winner
Ken Caminiti (who finished a very close second in Internet voting),
finished nineteenth.
(NOTE: B = BALLOTS, P = POINTS) Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 B P Mike Piazza 161 61 19 12 7 1 6 0 3 3 273 3119 Larry Walker 79 121 34 14 11 8 1 3 5 1 277 2695 Barry Bonds 15 43 87 56 32 6 10 6 3 4 262 1975 Jeff Bagwell 8 22 66 77 39 28 10 14 2 2 268 1839 Craig Biggio 7 11 24 33 48 41 28 14 17 6 229 1307 Pedro Martinez 1 9 12 21 32 29 40 29 7 12 192 948 Tony Gwynn 1 2 14 17 32 34 28 31 27 26 212 910 Greg Maddux 2 0 10 21 21 34 26 27 26 10 177 798 Ray Lankford 0 0 3 11 18 20 29 22 18 11 132 538 Todd Hundley 0 1 1 1 9 11 8 14 15 21 81 258 Curt Schilling 0 4 1 2 4 5 8 14 10 16 64 217 Chipper Jones 1 1 2 1 2 6 9 10 21 7 60 203 Jeff Blauser 0 0 1 3 2 1 10 15 20 12 64 183 Andres Galarraga 0 1 2 1 3 5 7 8 8 6 41 149 Charles Johnson 0 1 0 0 1 10 5 7 7 16 47 136 Denny Neagle 2 1 0 3 2 1 1 2 3 5 20 96 Moises Alou 0 0 1 1 4 4 2 4 3 10 29 95 Kenny Lofton 0 0 2 0 1 4 7 3 4 2 23 89 Ken Caminiti 1 1 0 0 1 3 3 3 4 9 25 82 Raul Mondesi 0 1 0 0 0 3 6 6 5 6 27 82 Edgardo Alfonzo 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 3 5 3 19 65 Darryl Kile 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 2 7 9 25 60 Jeff Kent 0 0 1 0 2 4 1 2 2 2 14 56 Mark McGwire 1 1 0 1 0 1 2 1 2 8 16 58 J.T. Snow 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 5 4 14 49 Scott Rolen 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 6 9 18 34 Bobby Bonilla 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 4 0 8 28 Kevin Brown 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 2 7 27 Gary Sheffield 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 24 Jason Kendall 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 3 8 22 Mark Grace 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 2 7 20 Shawn Estes 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 17 Eric Karros 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 4 14 Javier Lopez 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 2 5 14 Jeff Shaw 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 5 9 Mark Grudzielanek 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 7 Wally Joyner 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 Barry Larkin 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 Bill Spiers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 5 Kevin Young 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 Robb Nen 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 Ryan Klesko 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4 Vinny Castilla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 Alex Fernandez 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 Billy Wagner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 Delino Deshields 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 Chan Ho Park 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 John Olerud 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Jon Nunnally 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Mike Lansing 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Rich Loiselle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Sammy Sosa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Shawon Dunston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 TOTAL 281 281 281 281 281 269 267 250 249 243 2683 16268 AL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER:
Baseball watchers have been waiting years to see Ken Griffey Jr. put
together his first MVP season, and 1997 proved to be that year as
Griffey chased Roger Maris' home run record, lead the Mariners to the
AL West division championship, and played the best baseball of his
already illustrious career. After four previous finishes in the top
ten, Griffey slugged his way to the 1997 Internet AL MVP award. In
second place, mighty Frank Thomas continued his streak of finishing
in the top six every year this vote has been held thanks to his
continually awesome offensive performance. Roger Clemens became the
highest ranking pitcher ever in Internet AL MVP voting, finishing with
the second highest total of first place votes and third overall. Jim
Thome, who finished in fifth place, is the only other player besides
Thomas to finish in the top ten of this award each of the last 3
years (though Edgar Martinez has stayed in the top 11 during that
time). Last year's Internet AL MVP winner, Alex Rodriguez, finished
in twenty-first place, while last year's BBWAA AL MVP winner, Juan
Gonzalez, finished thirteenth. Meanwhile, with his sixth place finish,
Nomar Garciaparra becomes the highest charting rookie ever in Internet
AL MVP voting. And with his eleventh place finish, Mark McGwire
becomes the first player to finish among the top 25 in Internet MVP
voting in both leagues in the same year.
Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 B P Ken Griffey Jr. 190 53 13 4 2 0 1 0 1 3 267 3290 Frank Thomas 25 78 71 31 15 15 5 6 3 3 252 2049 Roger Clemens 39 49 38 31 11.5 8 13 12 9 7 218 1732.5 Tino Martinez 3 45 27 16 21 12 14 11 12 13 174 1087 Jim Thome 1 6 19 35 30 33 22 16 8 6 176 968 Nomar Garciaparra 1 5 14 23 29 29 20 28 12 13 174 852 Dave Justice 0 9 24 22 25.5 22 16 16 16 10 161 846.5 Randy Johnson 2 6 13 37 23 17 20 11 12 11 152 816 Edgar Martinez 1 1 8 11 19 17 12 11 12 16 108 484 Bernie Williams 0 3 3 14 15 15 21 4 14 13.5 103 451.5 Mark McGwire 1 3 8 11 6 7 7 3 10 11 67 321 Randy Myers 2 0 6 3 7 7 4 7 8 7 51 234 Juan Gonzalez 0 2 3 2 8 8 6 7 5 10 51 209 Ivan Rodriguez 0 1 5 3 6 5 8 7 4 12 51 204 Rusty Greer 0 0 1 2 5 9 8 11 12 15 63 201 Tim Salmon 0 0 4 3 2 6 7 11 13 4 50 186 Sandy Alomar Jr. 0 1 1 2 7 7 10 6 4 4 42 178 Mo Vaughn 0 1 1 3 4 9 5 7 4 7 41 163 Manny Ramirez 0 0 0 0 3 6 7 9 9 6 40 127 Chuck Knoblauch 1 1 0 1 4 6 3 4 6 6 32 126 Alex Rodriguez 0 0 1 2 5 2 5 8 6 3 32 121 Brady Anderson 0 3 1 2 1 3 6 2 4 2 24 110 Rafael Palmeiro 1 0 2 1 4 1 4 4 1 2 20 98 Jim Edmonds 0 0 1 1 2 2 7 6 5 4 28 97 Roberto Alomar 1 1 3 1 0 1 1 2 5 5 20 84 John Valentin 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 8 7 5 27 80 Paul O'Neill 0 0 1 2 2 1 2 4 5 4.5 22 73.5 Jeromy Burnitz 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 4 3 2 15 51 Mariano Rivera 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 4 3 13 39 Tony Clark 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4 7 18 39 Brad Radke 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 2 1 2 10 38 Doug Jones 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 6 37 Mike Mussina 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 7 34 Andy Pettitte 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 2 1 2 10 33 Bob Higginson 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 2 10 26 Matt Stairs 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 6 23 Derek Jeter 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 6 20 Jay Buhner 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 6 18 Jay Bell 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 4 8 17 David Cone 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 4 13 Jimmy Key 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 11 Joey Cora 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 4 11 Will Clark 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 Justin Thompson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 6 Cal Ripken Jr. 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 Brian L. Hunter 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 Chad Curtis 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 Harold Baines 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 Damion Easley 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 Jeff Fassero 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 Dan Wilson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Jeff Cirillo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Reggie Jefferson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 TOTAL 270 270 270 270 270 258 254 246 238 238 2584 15638 AL CY YOUNG AWARD:
Roger Clemens easily won his third Internet AL Cy Young Award
- though his first in five years - by winning the first place
votes of 90% of the voters. Clemens joins Barry Bonds and
Mike Piazza as 3 time Internet Award winners, behind only Greg
Maddux, who has won 4 Internet Awards. Randy Johnson, who won
this award in 1995, grabbed 80% of voters' second place votes
as he ran away with second place. Andy Pettite finished third
for the second year in a row. The top vote-getting reliever,
Randy Myers, finished fourth. Last year's winner of both the
BBWAA and Internet AL Cy Youngs, Pat Hentgen, finished twelfth.
Player 1 2 3 4 5 B P Roger Clemens 253 15 2 2 3 275 2654 Randy Johnson 14 230 15 9 1 269 1853 Andy Pettitte 2 4 67 44 19 136 534 Randy Myers 2 10 51 26 30 119 453 Brad Radke 0 5 36 31 23 95 331 Justin Thompson 2 0 26 39 35 102 302 Mike Mussina 0 7 24 32 37 100 302 David Cone 0 1 20 18 23 62 184 Mariano Rivera 0 1 14 15 24 54 146 Doug Jones 2 0 4 17 12 35 103 Jamie Moyer 0 0 5 4 5 14 42 Kevin Appier 0 0 3 5 12 20 42 Pat Hentgen 0 1 2 5 7 15 39 Jimmy Key 0 1 1 3 5 10 26 Scott Erickson 0 0 3 2 5 10 26 Chuck Finley 0 0 1 2 1 4 12 David Wells 0 0 1 1 0 2 8 John Wetteland 0 0 0 2 1 3 7 Jeff Fassero 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 Jason Dickson 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 Armando Benitez 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Matt Karchner 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Todd Jones 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Willie Blair 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 TOTAL 275 275 275 258 251 1334 7075 NL CY YOUNG AWARD:
Pedro Martinez, who lead the NL in ERA and finished second in
strikeouts in 1997, beat out pitching master Greg Maddux's
challenge to win his first Internet NL Cy Young Award. Maddux,
who himself lead the league in RA, adds his second place finish to
his three Internet Cy Young victories and his third place finish
last year (plus his one Internet NL MVP Award). As for the rest
of the Braves fab four starting rotation, Denny Neagle finished
fifth, Tom Glavine (the 1991 winner of this award) finished eighth,
and John Smoltz, who won the BBWAA version of this award last year,
finished eleventh. Last year's Internet NL Cy Young Award winner,
Kevin Brown, finished sixth. Curt Schilling, who lead the league
in strikeouts and provided one of the few bright spots in a long
season for the Phillies, finished in third place. Rod Beck just
edged out Jeff Shaw by one point as the leading point getter among
relievers.
Player 1 2 3 4 5 B P Pedro Martinez 207 58 7 7 1 280 2533 Greg Maddux 65 188 20 7 3 283 2090 Curt Schilling 7 22 98 51 38 216 905 Darryl Kile 2 0 79 67 56 204 672 Denny Neagle 6 13 32 57 54 162 536 Kevin Brown 0 3 35 46 49 133 383 Shawn Estes 2 2 7 16 27 54 144 Tom Glavine 0 0 5 10 13 28 68 Rod Beck 2 1 1 2 1 7 39 Jeff Shaw 0 1 0 6 13 20 38 John Smoltz 0 1 1 4 5 11 29 Ismael Valdes 0 1 2 2 5 10 28 Alan Benes 0 0 1 4 2 7 19 Chan Ho Park 1 0 0 1 4 6 17 Billy Wagner 0 1 0 1 1 3 11 Alex Fernandez 0 0 1 0 2 3 7 John Franco 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 Rick Reed 0 0 0 0 7 7 7 Andy Benes 0 0 1 0 1 2 6 Matt Morris 0 0 0 1 2 3 5 Mike Hampton 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 Trevor Hoffman 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 Mark Wohlers 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 Robb Nen 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 Shane Reynolds 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 Antonio Osuna 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Bobby Jones 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 Francisco Cordova 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 TOTAL 292 292 292 285 288 1449 7567 NL ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:
Phillies rookie third baseman Scott Rolen easily held off the most
talented NL rookie class in a decade to win the NL Internet Rookie
of the Year award. The wide range of skills Rolen showed both
offensively and defensively enabled him to beat out a long list of
successful rookie pitchers and everyday uberprospects. Matt
Morris, the Cardinals rookies pitcher who lead his team in innings
pitched and ended the season with a strong 3.18 ERA, finished in
a solid second place. 5 other rookie starters and 1 rookie closer
finished in the top ten: postseason hero/story Livan Hernandez in
third, Pirates bullpen ace Rich Loiselle in sixth, Reds phenom
Brett Tomko in seventh, Astros starter Chris Holt in eighth, and
Phillies surprise Garrett Stephenson in ninth. Meanwhile, the two
most hyped rookies in the preseason, Andruw Jones and Vladmir
Guerrero, ended up in third and fourth place respectively after
somewhat disappointing (for different reasons) years.
Player 1 2 3 B P Scott Rolen 214 41 12 267 1205 Matt Morris 32 88.5 22 143 448 Livan Hernandez 7 44 37 88 204 Andruw Jones 9 29 34 72 166 Vladimir Guerrero 4 17 53.5 75 124.5 Rich Loiselle 4 16.5 26.5 48 96.5 Brett Tomko 2 11 21 34 64 Chris Holt 2 7 5 14 36 Garrett Stephenson 0 4 12 16 24 Jose Guillen 2 2 5 9 21 Kevin Orie 2 1 8 11 21 Wilton Guerrero 0 5 4 9 19 Dmitri Young 1 2 3 6 14 Neifi Perez 0 1 6 7 9 Jeremi Gonzales 0 1 5 6 8 Tom Martin 1 0 3 4 8 Ricardo Rincon 0 2 0 2 6 Bob Abreu 1 0 0 1 5 John Thomson 0 1 2 3 5 John Frascatore 0 1 1 2 4 Kevin Polcovich 0 1 1 2 4 Scott Sullivan 0 1 1 2 4 Cory Lidle 0 0 3 3 3 Felix Heredia 0 1 0 1 3 Matt Beech 0 0 3 3 3 Matt Franco 0 1 0 1 3 Craig Counsell 0 0 1 1 1 Pete Rose Jr. 0 0 1 1 1 TOTAL 281 278 270 829 2510 AL ROOKIE OF THE YEAR:
The most devastating performance in Internet Baseball Award history
highlighted the American League Rookie of the Year voting, as Red
Sox rookie record-setting shortstop whiz Nomar Garciaparra routed
the competition by winning over 95% of voters' first place votes.
(Coincidentally, the previous record setting IBA performance was in
this category last year, when Derek Jeter trounced his fellow
rookies.) In second place voters placed young slugger Jose Cruz
Jr., the recipient of a controversial midseason trade from the
Mariners to the Blue Jays for Mike Timlin and Paul Spoljaric, and
the son of an underrated former major league star, Jose Cruz.
Angels starter Jason Dickson finished third despite a weak finish,
ahead of World Series star Jaret Wright and White Sox outfielder
Mike Cameron.
Player 1 2 3 B P Nomar Garciaparra 259 3 4 266 1308 Jose Cruz Jr. 3 171 44 218 572 Jason Dickson 1 41 73 115 201 Jaret Wright 2 10 39 51 79 Mike Cameron 1 12 29.5 43 70.5 Deivi Cruz 1 10 15.5 27 50.5 Scott Hatteberg 0 5 15 20 30 Scott Spiezio 0 2 9 11 15 Danny Patterson 0 2 6 8 12 Joel Adamson 1 1 0 2 8 Raul Casanova 0 2 2 4 8 Shigetoski Hasegawa 1 0 3 4 8 Glendon Rusch 0 2 1 3 7 Kelvim Escobar 0 1 4 5 7 Jorge Posada 0 1 1 2 4 Brian Moehler 0 0 3 3 3 Jason McDonald 0 1 0 1 3 Yamil Benitez 0 1 0 1 3 Brad Rigby 0 0 2 2 2 Fernando Tatis 0 0 2 2 2 Aaron Small 0 0 1 1 1 Chris Carpenter 0 0 1 1 1 TOTAL 269 265 254 789 2395
Whew! You've gotten all the way through this year's results!
For those interested, here's a brief history of previous IBA results:
AL MVP NL MVP AL CY NL CY AL RotY NL RotY
1996 A.Rodriguez M.Piazza P.Hentgen K.Brown D.Jeter E.Renteria
1995 A.Belle G.Maddux R.Johnson G.Maddux G.Anderson H.Nomo
1993 F.Thomas B.Bonds K.Appier G.Maddux T.Salmon M.Piazza
1992 F.Thomas B.Bonds R.Clemens G.Maddux P.Listach R.Sanders
1991 C.Ripken B.Bonds R.Clemens T.Glavine C.Knoblauch J.Bagwell
This year's Internet Baseball Awards have primarily been the work
of David Pease and Greg Spira, with support, sponsorship, love and
warmth coming from the whole Baseball Prospectus crew and some other
people named David. These award results may be excerpted from this
article in any form provided credit is fully disclosed.
Please remember to tune in to the Baseball Prospectus web site
(that's http://www.baseballprospectus.com) during the last 2
weeks of the 1998 regular season for the 7th Annual Internet
Baseball Awards - with your participation, it can be bigger and
better than ever.
Internet Baseball Awards is a trademark of Baseball Prospectus Group, LLC.
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