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Halladay, Delgado, Wells, Hudson, and Lopez Win Team Awards

The Toronto Star reports that Halladay was named Blue Jay Pitcher of the Year, while slugger Carlos Delago was named Blue Jay Player of the Year. Seeing as Halladay won the AL Cy Young and Delgado finished 2nd in the AL MVP voting, these come as no surprise.

The awards were voted on by the Toronto chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. The Star doesn't give full details about the voting, but we are told that there are 11 voters, who give 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place ballots for each award. It appears that 3 points are given for a first, 2 for a second, and one point for a third place vote. The results, as according to the Star:

Blue Jay Player of the Year
Delgado - 31 points
Wells - 21 points
Halladay - 7 points
Myers, Hudson, Catalanotto all received votes as well.

Blue Jay Pitcher of the Year
Halladay - 33 points (first on all 11 ballots)
Escobar - 19 points
Lopez - 14 points

Blue Jay Good Guy
Vernon Wells chosen as "Good Guy". No voting results given

Blue Jay Most Improved Player
Hudson - 12 points (4 first place votes)
Johnson - 12 points (Given 2nd place, as he received 2 first place votes to Hudson's 4)
Towers - 8 points
Four other players received votes

Blue Jay Rookie of the Year
Lopez - 28 votes
Johnson - 26 votes
Hendrickson - 6 votes
Werth and Kershner also received votes

Posted by Pepper Moffatt on Friday, January 09 2004 @ 08:56 AM EST.

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Craig B - Friday, January 09 2004 @ 09:06 AM EST (#81695) #

Incidentally, our own announcement of Batter's Box Players of the Year will be coming on Monday.

_Jonny German - Friday, January 09 2004 @ 09:31 AM EST (#81696) #

How did Myers not run away with the Most Improved Player award? He must have been declared ineligible as a FA signing... but if that's the case, I don't see why Johnson should have been eligible.

Pretty amusing that 3 players took all the votes for Pitcher of the Year.

Hendrickson or Werth over Kershner for ROY? Very odd. I'd wouldn't even take Lurch or Jayson as the 4th best rookie. That would go to Howie Clark - .357 / .400 / .429 in 70 AB, as compared to .208 / .255 / .417 in 48 AB for Werth and a 5.51 ERA in 158 innings for Hendrickson.

_John Neary - Friday, January 09 2004 @ 10:09 AM EST (#81697) #

Perhaps Myers didn't win Most Improved Player because he wasn't with the Jays last year.

I would have voted for Vernon Wells. Delgado would also have been a reasonable choice, but he moved up within his established range of performance. Wells performed at a level significantly above anything he had previously reached.

robertdudek - Friday, January 09 2004 @ 10:31 AM EST (#81698) #

Hands down Vernon was most improved of the players who were Jays in 2002.

_A - Friday, January 09 2004 @ 01:46 PM EST (#81699) #

I want to know which well established and clearly competant member of the BWAA gave Delgado a 3rd place MVP ranking. (It might shed light on one of the brilliant individuals who has contributed to the inane HoF voting patterns).

Does MLB prevent BWAA members from writing about their personal selections for awards after they're presented? If they don't I'm hard pressed to think of a reason we don't know every single members' vote. These guys give their opinions all the time, wanted or not, why withhold it when it has a little more currency? (Then again, I don't have to walk into a clubhouse and see a gu who didn't get a $2 million bonus based on my vote)

_Jonny German - Friday, January 09 2004 @ 05:11 PM EST (#81700) #

I want to know which well established and clearly [competent] member of the BWAA gave Delgado a 3rd place MVP ranking.

It could be that he got two second place votes. 9 * 3 + 2 * 2 = 31. And it's an important distinction that the award is "Player of the Year", not MVP.

_Ryan Lind - Friday, January 09 2004 @ 07:18 PM EST (#81701) #

I think that the "most improved player" was meant to be awarded to the player that improved the most over the course of the year. And in my mind, that was Orlando Hudson, who looked pretty shaky at the beginning, but actually became a pretty solid defensive second baseman near the end.

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