Thursday Night,
October 28, 2010
Hamilton, Votta Take Home Stan Musial Award
Press Release
Contact: Daniel
Shoptaw
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
E-mail: baseballbloggersalliance@gmail.com
3 P.M. EDT, October 28, 2010
HAMILTON, VOTTO TAKE HOME STAN
MUSIAL AWARD
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance concluded their award season today by naming the best player in
each league for 2010. When all the votes were tallied, two men were
comfortably ahead.
Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton, who hit 32 home runs and
fashioned an OPS of 1.044 while leading the Rangers into the playoffs, won the
award in the American League. Hamilton received sixteen first place votes
and 261 points overall, which put him ahead of his nearest competitor, Detroit
first baseman Miguel Cabrera, by roughly 70 points.
In the National League, helping Cincinnati to an unexpected
divisional title paid off for first baseman Joey Votto. After a season
where he cracked 37 home runs and posted a 1.024 OPS, Votto also received
sixteen first-place votes toward his total of 252 points. He also denied
St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols the chance to win back-to-back BBA
awards. Pujols was selected as MVP by the BBA in 2009, but placed second
with 197 points in this year’s voting.
Winners of other Alliance awards also received votes in the
Musial balloting. In the American League, Walter
Johnson winner Felix Hernandez received 21 points, while Goose
Gossage selection Rafael Soriano had a single
mention. On the senior circuit, Walter Johnson winner Roy Halladay placed
fourth in the voting with 101 points.
The complete voting results are as follows (first place
votes in parenthesis):
American League
Josh Hamilton, Texas (16) 261
Miguel Cabrera, Detroit (4) 188
Robinson Cano, New York 158
Jose Bautista, Toronto (1) 146
Adrian Beltre, Boston 107
Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay (1) 102
Paul Konerko, Chicago 65
Carl Crawford, Tampa Bay 56
Joe Mauer, Minnesota 50
Shin-Soo Choo, Cleveland 44
Felix Hernandez, Seattle 21
Vladimir Guerrero, Texas 13
Justin Morneau, Minnesota 12
Delmon Young, Minnesota 10
Cliff Lee, Seattle/Texas 8
CC Sabathia, New York 8
Alex Rodriguez, New York 7
Clay Buchholz, Boston 4
Mark Teixeria, New York 3
Jon Lester, Boston 2
Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle 2
Nick Swisher, New York 2
Jim Thome, Minnesota 2
Kevin Youkilis, Boston 2
Brett Gardner, New York 1
David Ortiz, Boston 1
Rafael Soriano, Tampa Bay 1
National League
Joey Votto, Cincinnati (16) 252
Albert Pujols, St. Louis (3) 197
Carlos Gonzalez, Colorado (1) 118
Roy Halladay, Philadelphia (1) 101
Adrian Gonzalez, San Diego 98
Troy Tulowitski, Colorado 98
Ryan Zimmerman, Washington 93
Matt Holliday, St. Louis 84
Aubrey Huff, San Francisco 32
Adam Wainwright, St. Louis 17
Ubaldo Jimenez, Colorado 16
Josh Johnson, Florida 16
Dan Uggla, Florida 16
Jayson Werth, Philadelphia 16
Ryan Braun, Milwaukee 13
Prince Fielder, Milwaukee 10
Ryan Howard, Philadelphia 9
Martin Prado, Atlanta 7
Jason Heyward, Atlanta 6
Rickie Weeks, Milwaukee 5
David Wright, New York 5
Adam Dunn, Washington 4
Kelly Johnson, Arizona 4
Andres Torres, San Francisco 1
The Baseball Bloggers Alliance was formed in the fall of
2009 to encourage cooperation and collaboration between baseball bloggers of
all major league teams as well as those that follow baseball more generally. As
of this writing, the organization consists of 233 blogs spanning all 30 major league squads as well as general baseball
writing.
The BBA is organized under a similar structure as the
Baseball Writers of America, where blogs that follow the same team are combined
into “chapters” and only two votes from the chapter on an award are counted.
The blog chapters that are focused on general baseball were allowed two votes
as well, which they could use both on the same league or split between the two
leagues.
Chapters generally followed one of two methods when casting
their ballot. Either representatives of the chapter were given the
ballots for voting or a “group ballot” was posted, accounting for both of their
votes.
Ballots are posted on the respective blogs and for this
award, were tabulated on a 13-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 point scale for first through
tenth place. In the interest of transparency, links are given below for the
ballots. Chapter affiliation is in parenthesis. Those chapters that
decided on the group method are noted with an asterisk.
American League
Camden Crazies (Baltimore)*
The
Bottom Line (Boston)*
The
Tribe Daily (Cleveland)*
Motor
City Bengals (Detroit)
Switch
Hitting Pitchers (Detroit)
One
Royal Way (Kansas City)*
Twinkie
Talk (Minnesota)
Seth
Speaks (Minnesota)
Bronx Baseball Daily (New York)*
Contract
Year (Oakland)
Rise of
the Rays (Tampa Bay)
Infield
Fly (Toronto)
The Blue
Jay Hunter (Toronto)
Advanced
Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
Victoria
Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*
Misc.
Baseball (History)*
Blogging
From The Bleachers (General)*
National League
Blog Red
Machine (Cincinnati)
Marlin
Maniac (Florida)
Marlins
Diehards (Florida)
Feeling
Dodger Blue (Los Angeles)
The
Eddie Kranepool Society (New York)*
Dugger’s
Corner (Philadelphia)
Where
Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? (Pittsburgh)*
The
Outfield Ivy (St. Louis)
Pitchers
Hit Eighth (St. Louis)
Friar Forecast (San Diego)*
22gigantes (San Francisco)*
Advanced
Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
Victoria
Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*
Misc.
Baseball (History)*
Ron
Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf (Miscellaneous)*
Blogging
From The Bleachers (General)*
Prior Winners: 2009: Joe Mauer, Minnesota; Albert
Pujols, St. Louis
The official website of the BBA is located at www.baseballbloggersalliance.com. The BBA can be found on Twitter by the handle
@baseballblogs and by the hashmark #bbba. Members of the BBA may be heard
at Blog Talk Radio every Tuesday night with their call-in show, BBA Baseball Talk,
which may also be downloaded as a podcast from iTunes. For more
information, contact Daniel Shoptaw at founder@baseballbloggersalliance.com.
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