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October 28, 2004 Internet Baseball Awards2004 National League WinnersFor the American League wrapup, click here. For complete results, click here.It's time to announce the winners of the 13th annual Internet Baseball Awards. More than 1,500 cyberspace baseball fans participated in this effort to honor those players and managers whose performance in 2004 were most deserving of honors. The point system for the balloting was as follows:
And now, the results from the National League: National League Most Valuable Player Rk Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 B P ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 B. Bonds 1257 65 18 14 14 3 3 1 0 0 1375 18539 2 A. Pujols 41 518 415 223 102 33 10 4 5 0 1351 10956 3 A. Beltre 65 530 321 170 75 23 11 6 4 2 1207 10075 4 S. Rolen 16 66 169 312 254 138 88 54 32 26 1155 7172 5 J. Edmonds 3 111 197 236 247 138 64 53 18 9 1076 6901 6 J.D. Drew 1 5 29 59 106 132 114 120 66 45 677 2993 7 C. Beltran 5 26 75 77 80 78 58 44 24 30 497 2755 8 B. Abreu 3 8 19 57 98 110 103 101 89 48 636 2744 9 L. Berkman 0 7 21 39 79 94 123 94 74 44 575 2414 10 T. Helton 0 9 41 31 62 76 74 58 68 69 488 2053 The National League Internet Most Valuable Player Award isn't named after Barry Bonds. Yet. This year was the fifth consecutive year and eighth overall that Bonds has finished at the top of the Internet NL MVP balloting. As usual, it wasn't close; Bonds received more than thirty times the number of first-place votes the second-place candidate earned. In 2004, Bonds continued playing "Can You Top This?" with his other seasons by posting the highest single-season on-base percentage of his career (or of anyone else's), .609, as well as the fourth-highest single-season slugging average of all-time, .812 (behind a couple of seasons by a guy named Ruth and Bonds' own 2001 season). It's clear that the NL Internet MVP voting is more interesting in the years that Bonds doesn't finish first, such as 1996, when he finished fourth, 1997 and 1998, when he finished third, and 1999, when he ended up a lowly twenty-first after missing half the season with an injury. If Bonds did not exist, Albert Pujols would be raking in the awards; Pujols finished second in Internet NL MVP voting to Bonds for the second straight year. Previously, Pujols had finished fourth twice; he is the only player in Internet MVP voting history to finish in the top four each of his first four full seasons. Adrian Beltre received the second-highest number of first place votes and finished third overall. With Pujols' teammates Scott Rolen and Jim Edmonds finishing fourth and fifth, three members of one team, the St. Louis Cardinals, finished in the top five spots for the first time in Internet NL MVP voting history. The highest ranking pitcher was Randy Johnson, who finished eleventh, while the highest ranking relief pitcher was Eric Gagne, who finished fifteenth. National League Cy Young
Rk Name 1 2 3 4 5 B P ------------------------------------------------------------- 1 R. Johnson 864 221 62 39 18 1204 10632 2 R. Clemens 270 361 244 128 87 1090 6918 3 B. Sheets 42 300 178 123 118 761 3897 4 J. Schmidt 48 133 201 156 103 641 2987 5 R. Oswalt 54 91 112 119 76 452 2170 Complete results for NL Cy Young Randy Johnson won the 2004 Internet NL Cy Young Award, marking the fifth time in the last six years he has captured the award. Johnson's recent NL reign, which will almost certainly land him in the Hall of Fame some day, was interrupted in 2003 by an injury that allowed him only 18 starts during the season and left him out of the running. Johnson is the all-time leader in Internet Cy Youngs with six; Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux and Pedro Martinez have each won four, though Maddux and Martinez have also each earned an Internet MVP award. Clemens finished a strong second in his first post-retirement season pitching in Houston. Ben Sheets, who finished third in ERA and strikeouts while ending up fourth in innings pitched, finished third in the voting after a breakout year. Jason Schmidt, who has clearly moved into the realm of the league's elite pitchers, followed last year's third-place finish with a fourth-place finish in 2004. The league's ERA leader, Jake Peavy, finished sixth. The highest ranked reliever was again Gagne, though he plummeted from his second-place finish in 2003 to ninth in 2004. Mark Prior, last year's winner, finished in a tie for twentieth. National League Rookie of the Year
Rk Name 1 2 3 B P -------------------------------------------- 1 J. Bay 643 322 80 1045 4261 2 K. Greene 468 537 114 1119 4065 3 A. Otsuka 44 140 272 456 912 Complete results for NL Rookie of the Year In what was by far the closest race on the 2004 ballot, Jason Bay edged out Khalil Greene for the Internet NL Rookie of the Year award. Bay was clearly the superior offensive player, finishing with a .358 OBP and .550 SLG after being traded to the Pirates along with Oliver Perez for Brian Giles. Greene, who used to be Bay's roommate when they played together in the San Diego minor league system, made his mark for the Padres with impressive defensive play at shortstop, and was very solid offensively with a .349 OBP and a .446 SLG before a broken bone ended his season in mid-September. Greene actually made it onto 74 more ballots than Bay did, but Bay received 175 more first place votes than Greene. Akinori Otsuka, another Padre, finished third and after a dominating rookie season in 2004 season with 77.1 innings pitched, 56 hits allowed, 26 walks, 87 strikeouts, a .263 OBP allowed and a .305 SLG allowed. David Wright, who was called up to the Mets in late July and quickly became his team's most productive hitter, finished fourth. National League Manager of the Year
Rk Name 1 2 3 B P -------------------------------------------- 1 B. Cox 774 262 90 1126 4746 2 P. Garner 199 305 213 717 2123 3 J. Tracy 147 294 255 696 1872 Complete results for NL Manager of the Year Bobby Cox became the first baseball manager to win two Internet Manager of the Year Awards (since the award's inception in 1998) after he led a revamped and seemingly weakened Atlanta Braves to yet another NL East title. Despite receiving significant criticism in the past for his team's postseason failures, Cox has now garnered two victories and four third-place finishes in the seven years that Internet voters have been selecting the best managers. Phil Garner finished second in the voting after taking over a seemingly moribund Houston Astros team in mid-season and leading them on a spectacular streak that included the first playoff series victory in the franchise's existence. Garner had previously finished no higher than eighth in Internet Manager of the Year voting. Jim Tracy, who won this award in 2002 and finished sixth last year, finished third after leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to an unexpected division title. The only other manager to receive significant support was Tony LaRussa, who finished fourth after leading the St. Louis Cardinals to 105 regular season victories, the most in major league baseball. Last year's winner, Jack McKeon of the Florida Marlins, finished tenth. To see past winners, check out the IBA history page. Thank you to all the folks who have helped to promote these awards in various corners of the Internet. These award results may be excerpted from this article in any form provided full credit is given to the Internet Baseball Awards and Baseball Prospectus. Join us at the end of the 2005 season for the 14th Annual Internet Baseball Awards. Internet Baseball Awards is a trademark of Prospectus Entertainment Ventures, LLC.
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