• NL MVP: Joey Votto
  
• NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
• NL Rookie of the Year: Jason Heyward
  
• NL Manager of the Year: Bruce Bochy
• NL Comeback Player of the Year: Tim Hudson
  
• AL MVP: Miguel Cabrera
  
• AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez
  
• AL Rookie of the Year: Neftali Feliz
• AL Manager of the Year: Ron Washington
• AL Comeback Player of the Year: Francisco Liriano
  

• NL MVP: Joey Votto 
• NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
• NL Rookie of the Year: Buster Posey
• NL Manager of the Year: no vote
• NL Comeback Player of the Year: Aubrey Huff
  
• AL MVP: Josh Hamilton  
• AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez
• AL Rookie of the Year: I'll have to think about that one a bit more
• AL Manager of the Year: Joe Maddon
• AL Comeback Player of the Year: no vote
  

• NL MVP: Joey Votto
  
• NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
  
• NL Rookie of the Year: Buster Posey
  
• NL Manager of the Year: Dusty Baker ?
  
• NL Comeback Player of the Year: Aubrey Huff
  
• AL MVP: Josh Hamilton
  
• AL Cy Young: Cliff Lee
  
• AL Rookie of the Year: Neftali Feliz
  
• AL Manager of the Year: Clarence 'Cito' Gaston
  
• AL Comeback Player of the Year: Francisco Liriano

• NL MVP: Joey Votto
  
• NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
• NL Rookie of the Year: Buster Posey
• NL Manager of the Year: Bud Black
  
• NL Comeback Player of the Year: Aubrey Huff
  
• AL MVP: Josh Hamilton 
  
• AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez
  
• AL Rookie of the Year: Brian Matusz
• AL Manager of the Year: Joe Maddon
• AL Comeback Player of the Year: Francisco Liriano
  

·  NL MVP: Joey Votto

·  NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay

·  NL Rookie of the Year: Buster Posey

·  NL Manager of the Year: Dusty Baker

·  NL Comeback Player of the Year: Scott Rolen

·  AL MVP: Josh Hamilton

·  AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez

·  AL Rookie of the Year: Neftali Feliz

·  AL Manager of the Year: Terry Francona

·  AL Comeback Player of the Year: Jim Thome

• NL MVP: Joey Votto 
• NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
• NL Rookie of the Year: Buster Posey
• NL Manager of the Year: Bud Black
• NL Comeback Player of the Year: Tim Hudson
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• AL MVP: Josh Hamilton  (Cabrera/Baustista 2/2a)
  
• AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez
• AL Rookie of the Year: Neftali Feliz(weak class)
  
• AL Manager of the Year: Joe Maddon
• AL Comeback Player of the Year: Vernon Wells (no idea why Beltre and Vlad are getting the kudos here)
  

• NL MVP: Joey Votto 
• NL Cy Young: Roy Halladay
• NL Rookie of the Year: Buster Posey
• NL Manager of the Year: Dusty Baker
• NL Comeback Player of the Year: Richie Weeks (a nearly 5 jump in WAR does it for me)
  
• AL MVP: Josh Hamilton  (his numbers are just too good, even with the missing 30 days)
• AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez
• AL Rookie of the Year: Neftali Feliz
• AL Manager of the Year: Ron Gardenhire
• AL Comeback Player of the Year: Bautista! (how could it be anyone else?)
  
  
  Mostly agree with the OP here.
  

I don't necessarily agree. I think a playing coming back from a serious injury is in some ways a preferable to one having a good season after a lousy one. However, the phrase "re-emergence on the baseball field" could equally apply to a player who has had a good year after a below average season, as well as injuries. Voters seem to agree, having given the award to Lidge in 2008 and Cliff Lee and Carlos Pena in the AL in 2008 and 2007, respectively.

In the NL, I prefer Aubrey Huff skyrocketing from an 82 OPS+ to a 137 OPS+ over Rickie Weeks, who maintained his 125 OPS+ over an entire season. Also, the WAR advantage for Weeks isn't as clear depending on how you evaluate his defense. BR has him at 3.7 WAR in 2010 (compared to 1.2 in 2009), which isn't in the top 10 in the NL. Conversely, Huff went from -1.4 in 2009 to 5.8, which was 4th in the NL. I don't think WAR is a suitable place to begin evaluating a comeback player of the year award, but if it is, I don't think Weeks runs away with it unless you restrict yourself to injured players.

Giving the Comeback Player of the Year to a player who has rebounded from a poor season is basically rewarding that player for not stinking again. The "honour" is really quite dubious. Vernon, congratulations for not stinking like you did in 2009. Here's a medal.

That was part of my point; that the two sites differ in methodology and can give very different results for players, with Weeks being a prime example. If you think the injury should give Weeks the bump over Huff, that's fine, it's your vote and the criteria of the award are not well defined.

However, it's not settled that Weeks is a "clear cut" winner. You are rewarding the same rate production as 2009, post-injury and over the course of a full season. I am rewarding Huff's strong comeback after a miserable 2009 season, albeit one where he was apparently perfectly healthy and didn't perform. To each his own.

jmoney, that's a horrifyingly uninformed thing to say. Hamilton has been clean for several years -- which I understand is monumentally difficult to do -- and might deserve Comeback Player of All Time for what he's overcome and done. He didn't even participate in the Rangers' clubhouse celebration when they clinched the AL West because of all the alcohol present.

Don't ever compare, or worse, confuse, PED use -- which is by choice every time, right? -- with actual narcotic addiction. I can't for a moment defend Hamilton's initial thinking or choice(s) but in no way does the fallout he endured and overcame legitimately belong in the same discussion as PED use.

Voters seem to agree, having given the award to Lidge in 2008 and Cliff Lee and Carlos Pena in the AL in 2008 and 2007, respectively.

Oh, I know how voters do vote, but we were supposed to be saying who we thought should win, not will win. I think Beltre will win, especially in light of the nature of the injury he suffered last year. I'm sure that Marcum will be given no consideration whatsoever.

I think Huff is a very deserving candidate. I also agree that this is a lame award to measure, since what the heck is a comeback. It's hardly defined. But most baseball awards don't make much sense. Why is the Cy Young award team independent but the MVP not? Why isn't there a best positional player award then to mirror the Cy?

Well theoretically they are both individual awards, though clearly there is some reticence to give the MVP to a player on a losing/non-playoff team. With that being said, none of the "story" about the award this year revolves around that, it all centres on whether Hamilton missed too much time, and whether others (Cabrera? Bautista?) could catch him as a result. In the converse, there has been tons of stuff about how Felix didn't pitch in the heat of a pennant race, while Sabathia did, so go figure! (It's also worth nothing that Yankee Stadium had the second highest park factor this year and Safeco the second lowest, though both teams defense grades out similarly according to fangraphs.)