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AL Rookie Of The Year Award
AL Rookie Of The Year Award
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 ...
I disagree with all you crazy bloggers
I disagree with all you crazy bloggers
taoofstieb.blogspot.com — Part of the fun of partaking in the Baseball Bloggers Alliance postseason voting was the notion that... maybe those of us who reside outside of the press box would get it right, and prove just how vastly superior we are to the washed up hacks in the BBWAA. After reviewing the BBA press release ... (more) I disagree with all you crazy bloggers
Our AL Rookie of the Year Ballot
Our AL Rookie of the Year Ballot
taoofstieb.blogspot.com — So we've been a little but delinquent with reflecting this, but late in the season, we agreed... to take part in the Baseball Bloggers Alliance , which is intended to be the blog world's answer to the BBWAA. There are a bunch of interesting blogs covering most of the teams across the Majors ... (more) Our AL Rookie of the Year Ballot
AL Manager Of The Year Award
AL Manager Of The Year Award
camdencrazies.com — 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 ... (more) AL Manager Of The Year Award
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I disagree with all you crazy bloggers
The Tao of Stieb — ... (hey, they quoted us!), all we can say is: Oops. Mind you, our choice for AL Rookie of the Year, the A's Andrew Bailey, took the day with nine first place votes and 48 points total in the 5-3-1 scoring system. But what shocked us was that Brett Anderson, who we even considered as our choice at the top of our ballot, received one first place vote and our second place vote...and that's it. (And full marks to the kids at Camden Crazies, who had the stones to put Anderson at the top of their list.) To which we say: Really? Put Anderson's numbers up ...

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