The BP Staff weighs in with their mid-season ballots, showing who they think deserves an MVP, Cy Young Award, and Rookie of the Year.
Six years ago, in Baseball Prospectus 1997, I wrote an article on the subject of “pitching to the score.” After some careful research, I concluded that there was no evidence that any pitcher in recent times had demonstrated a clear ability to win or lose games that was not based on how many runs they allowed in the context they were pitching. In that article, I primarily focused on those pitchers who had been labeled “winners” in recent years because they often sported excellent won-loss records despite mediocre ERAs. I looked at Jack Morris, Dwight Gooden, Jack McDowell, Dave Stewart, Dave Stieb, Jose DeLeon, Catfish Hunter, and Sandy Koufax, and found that none of them demonstrated any pattern of winning more games than one would expect from their runs allowed totals.
Barry Bonds continued his domination of Internet NL Player of the Year voting by winning the IBA NL Player of the Year for the third straight year and the sixth time overall. Bonds has finished at least third in Internet NL Player of the Year voting after every season except 1999, when he was limited to less than 450 plate appearances by an injury.
It’s hard to say if the Baseball Writers Association will ever give Alex Rodriguez the MVP award he’s due, but Internet Baseball Awards electors voted Rodriguez his second Internet AL Player of the Year award in 2002 by a decisive margin; he won almost 70% of the first-place votes.
Winning a close race with Barry Zito and Derek Lowe, Pedro Martinez followed in the footsteps of Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux and Roger Clemens by winning his fourth Internet Cy Young Award.
For the fourth time in the last five years, Internet Baseball Awardsâ„¢ voters chose a pitcher as the National League Rookie of the Year.
Welcome to the presentation of the first batch of results from the 11th Annual Internet Baseball Awards. Today we present the Manager of the Year winners.
Some people don’t like the fact that the Prospectus has focused so strongly on the economics of baseball this year. I don’t blame them. Personally, I don’t really care about how much money players and owners make. When I see newspaper articles that focus on what players make what money, I turn the page. I…
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards.
The Internet has spoken. Your choices for this year’s Internet Baseball Awards.
Previous articles in this series: Rotation of the Decade MVP of the Decade Outfield of the Decade Infield of the Decade Fittingly, we end our yearlong Team of The Decade extended coverage with your choices for the bullpen. Winning more than double the points of the second place finisher, the Reliever of the Decade is…
Just in time for this year’s Internet Baseball Awards, we’ve stumbled upon the remaining data from the Team of the Decade voting. Previous articles in this series: MVP of the Decade Outfield of the Decade Infield of the Decade The rotation of the Decade is set. Greg Maddux missed out on MVP of the Decade,…
Just in time for this year’s Internet Baseball Awards, we’ve stumbled upon the remaining data from the Team of the Decade voting. Without further ado… In the end, the competition for the Player of the Decade came down to the decade’s best pitcher versus its best position player–a competition Barry Bonds won with relative ease….
The upcoming end of the 20th century has inspired a great deal of reflection and list-making. Baseball fans have been subjected to Major League Baseball’s "All-Century Team" as well as Top 100 player Purchase Baseball Dynasties at amazon.com or bn.com lists from every publication this side of Good Housekeeping. From a team standpoint, there was…
Late in 1999, we asked our readers to give us their picks for baseball’s Team of the 1990s. More than 1,000 people voted in the poll, held over three months, and the results have been tabulated. The outfielders and designated hitter for the Team of the 1990s are: Left Field Very little surprise here, as…
Late in 1999, we asked our readers to give us their picks for baseball’s Team of the 1990s. More than 1,000 people voted in the poll, held over three months, and the results have been tabulated. Over the next two weeks, we’ll present to you the Baseball Prospectus Team of the 1990s. First, the infielders:…
