Baseball Bloggers Alliance Awards: Manager of the Year
wezen-ball.com 10/13/2009 — I've done a terrible job of promoting it, but I signed myself up for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance last month. What is the BBA? From the website : The Baseball Bloggers Alliance was formed in 2009 to foster communication and collaboration between bloggers across baseball. Member blogs are ...

Your vote for the AL Cy Young
hardballtimes.com 10/6/2009 — At the end of my article on Friday discussing the five contenders for the AL Cy Young Award, we ran a poll asking for your vote. With a good response - we had 775 votes - we can safely call this one a landslide: The huge margin for Zack Greinke meant I had to combine third through fifth ...

AL Cy Young Award
camdencrazies.com 10/6/2009 — One of my responsibilities (privileges) as a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance is to vote on the year-end awards (MVP, Cy Young, ROY, and Manager of the Year). As an Orioles blog, I’ll be voting only for the American League awards (but I may do NL anyway at some point). First up ...

BBA AL Cy Young Award
thetribedaily.com 10/18/2009 — BBA AL Cy Young Award Ballot and a look back at the success the Cleveland Indians had with the award the past two years. Plus an update on the Indians managerial search.

Baseball Bloggers Alliance Cy Young Award Ballot
seamheads.com 10/15/2009 — As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, I’ve been asked to vote on the postseason awards. I’m only allowed to vote on one league and since I’m a Red Sox fan and an American League guy, I’m going with the A.L. Here is my A.L. Cy Young ballot: Because I ...

My Baseball Bloggers Alliance ballot for AL Manager of the Year
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 10/12/2009 — As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance , I got a "vote" in their AL awards. Here's my ballot for Manager of the Year. Keep in mind that I'm looking at regular season only; not the playoffs. 1. Ron Gardenhire, Minnesota Twins: Early last month, the Twins, a team with only two stars - ...

AL MVP Award
camdencrazies.com 10/15/2009 — One of my responsibilities (privileges) as a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance is to vote on the year-end awards (MVP, Cy Young, ROY, and Manager of the Year). As an Orioles blog, I’ll be voting only for the American League awards (but I may do NL anyway at some point). For the ...

Sabermetrics and the Cy Young Award
baseballreflections.com 10/12/2009 — Zack Greinke of the KC Royals I think we’re all aware of which stats voters use to determine Cy Young winners. For the most part, it’s stats like ERA, wins, K’s, losses, and WHIP. There are a number of reasons why using only those stats doesn’t come close to telling ...

Baseball Blogger Alliance ballot for NL Manager of the Year
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 10/12/2009 — As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance , I got a vote in their NL awards. Here's my ballot for Manager of the Year. These awards are for the regular season only, not the playoffs. 1. Jim Tracy , Rockies Tracy took over a team that was 18-28 and with largely the same players went 74-42 ...

2009 BBA Awards /  Baseball Bloggers Alliance
baseballbloggersalliance.com 10/15/2009 — Manager of the Year : American League Mike Scioscia, Los Angeles (8) 58 Ron Gardenhire, Minnesota (6) 46 Ron Washington, Texas (2) 30 Don Wakamatsu, Seattle (4) 29 Joe Girardi, New York 8 Terry Francona, Boston 4 Jim Leyland, Detroit 4 National League ...

Cardinals' La Russa not sure if he'll return for 2010 — FOXSports.com News for MLB 10/11/2009
Tony La Russa's not certain he wants to return for a 15th season as St. Louis Cardinals manager. For one thing, he didn't expect to begin so soon the decision-making process that begins every time his contract expires. The Cardinals were the first ...

Orioles Top Prospect No 23: Greg Miclat — Bleacher Report - MLB 10/12/2009
From the University of Virginia comes Orioles Prospect #23, Greg Miclat. Miclat starred as a Cavalier for three years before being tabbed as the Orioles 5th round pick in the 2008 amateur draft. He came to the organization with a reputation as a ...

Sports of The Times: Baseball Needs a Series That Will Truly Be a Fall Classic — NYT > Baseball 10/12/2009
To put the era of performance-enhancing drugs behind it, baseball could use a World Series that restores the fans’ trust in its pastime.

Mo overpowers Mauer when it counts — NY Post: Sports 10/12/2009
MINNEAPOLIS -- Cy Young got the best of MVP. You certainly can make a case for Mariano Rivera and Joe Mauer to win those respective awards in the American League. Here they were in last night's eighth inning going head-to-head with Game 3 of the A...

Swept away by Dodgers, Cardinals face questions — USATODAY.com MLB - Top Stories 10/13/2009
The St. Louis Cardinals quietly dressed in the silent clubhouse, some with reddened eyes, others with vacant stares. They truly believed they had the team to go all the way, at least to the World Series. They had perhaps the best two pitchers in ...