Over the past two days, Bauxites have been informally invited to cast their "votes" -- for who should win, not necessarily who will win -- in 10 significant MLB award categories for the just-concluded 2010 season. Let's take a look at some of the early returns.
Note: though the vote thread was opened more than a thousand times in its first two days, and there are literally hundreds of registered Bauxites, there were only a few dozen "votes" cast.
In the least surprising return in the history of post-season voting (just look at the outdated site banner still aloft this online magazine's home page) ...
... every single Bauxite who cast a vote for the NL Cy Young Award laid it down for former Blue Jay Roy "Doc" Halladay. Doc also broke up the possibility of a unanimous NL MVP vote, as he grabbed six percent of those votes while Cincinnati 1B Joey Votto went all Albert Pujols on the league and took home the other 94 percent of the vote.
The AL MVP vote was also a two-man race as Josh Hamilton easily outpaced Miggy Cabrera by approximately 79 percent to 21 percent. The real two-man race was in the NL Rookie of the Year ballot, where Jason Heyward received exactly one more vote than Buster Posey, to rack up a 51-49 percent win.
The AL Cy Young showed a clear Bauxite preference for the under-winner, Felix Hernandez, who snared 81 percent of the vote while Cliff Lee, CC Sabathia and Jon Lester received two votes each. The AL Rookie of the Year -- many voters didn't even bother to fill out this spot as several people openly called it a weak class. That class was dominated by Ranger closer Neftali Feliz, who gathered two-thirds of the vote to outdistance Austin Jackson and Brian Matusz , among others.
The rest of the awards voted on went to co-NL Managers of the Year Dusty Baker and Buddy Black, co-AL Managers of the Year Ron Gardenhire and Joe Maddon (who both barely outpaced Toronto's own Cito Gaston), and the Comeback Players of the Year in the NL, where Aubrey Huff nipped Tim Hudson and in the AL where Francisco Liriano clearly beat out Adrian Beltre and a pack of five others that included both Jose Bautista and Vernon Wells.
Whatcha think, Bauxites?
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