{"id":18060,"date":"2011-10-28T13:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T20:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=18060"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T19:31:55","slug":"kemp-unanimous-pick-for-nl-stan-musial-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/28\/kemp-unanimous-pick-for-nl-stan-musial-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kemp Unanimous Pick For NL Stan Musial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bautista holds off Ellsbury in American League<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There were some outstanding performances this year in Major League Baseball.  However, one clearly stood out from the pack.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Dodger outfielder Matt Kemp was named the National League Stan Musial Award winner for 2011 in voting held by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance<\/a>.  Kemp received all 15 first place votes and completely dominated the rest of the voting field like he did in putting up almost a 40 HR\/40 SB season for the Dodgers this year.<\/p>\n

Coming in a distant second was Milwaukee outfielder Ryan Braun, who garnered most of the second place votes from the group.  Braun’s teammate, first baseman Prince Fielder, came in third.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, even though Los Angeles pitcher Clayton Kershaw outpointed Philadelphia hurler Roy Halladay in the BBA’s Walter Johnson Award voting for best pitcher, Halladay received more points for the Stan Musial Award.<\/p>\n

Over in the American League, there were more ballots cast, perhaps due to a more intriguing race.  When the dust had settled, though, Toronto’s Jose Bautista had held off Boston’s Jacoby Ellsbury by a handful of points.<\/p>\n

Bautista received eleven of the 22 first place votes and 225 total points, while Ellsbury received five first place selections and 200 points overall.  Detroit Tiger first baseman Miguel Cabrera came in third with 183 points and three first place nods.  He was followed by two players with Detroit ties, former Tiger and now New York Yankee Curtis Granderson and current teammate and Walter Johnson Award winner Justin Verlander.<\/p>\n

The complete voting results are as follows (first place votes in parenthesis):<\/p>\n

American League<\/span>
\nJose Bautista, Toronto (11) 225
\nJacoby Ellsbury, Boston (5) 200
\nMiguel Cabrera, Detroit (3) 183
\nCurtis Granderson, New York (1) 135
\nJustin Verlander, Detroit (2) 126
\nAdrian Gonzalez, Boston 109
\nDustin Pedroia, Boston 68
\nRobinson Cano, New York 55
\nIan Kinsler, Texas 35
\nMichael Young, Texas 28
\nEvan Longoria, Tampa Bay 25
\nAlex Gordon, Kansas City 20
\nCC Sabathia, New York 13
\nPaul Konerko, Chicago 12
\nAdrian Beltre, Texas 10
\nAlex Avila, Detroit 8
\nJered Weaver, Los Angeles of Anaheim 6
\nBen Zobrist, Tampa Bay 6
\nMike Napoli, Texas 4
\nJames Shields, Tampa Bay 3
\nVictor Martinez, Detroit 2
\nDavid Oritz, Boston 2
\nMelky Cabrera, Kansas City 1<\/p>\n

National League<\/span>
\nMatt Kemp, Los Angeles (15) 195
\nRyan Braun, Milwaukee 134
\nPrince Fielder, Milwaukee 83
\nJoey Votto, Cincinnati 79
\nJustin Upton, Arizona 77
\nRoy Halladay, Philadelphia 49
\nTroy Tulowitski, Colorado 49
\nAlbert Pujols, St. Louis 46
\nJose Reyes, New York 42
\nClayton Kershaw, Los Angeles 31
\nLance Berkman, St. Louis 28
\nDan Uggla, Atlanta 14
\nPablo Sandoval, San Francisco 13
\nCliff Lee, Philadelphia 11
\nHunter Pence, Philadelphia 6
\nMichael Morse, Washington 5
\nBrandon Phillips, Cincinnati 3
\nIan Kennedy, Arizona 2
\nAndrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh 2
\nCarlos Gonzalez, Colorado 1<\/p>\n

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 316 blogs<\/a> spanning all 30 major league squads as well as general baseball writing.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Notably, though the Alliance’s awards come out well before their official counterparts, the BBA selections have matched those of the Baseball Writers of America in all but two instances in the past two years.  This, of course, does not include the Goose Gossage Award that is exclusive to the BBA.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

American League<\/span>
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball<\/a> (Fantasy)
\nBaltimore Life and Sports<\/a> (Baltimore)
\nThe Bat Shatters<\/a> (Minnesota)
\nThe Blue Jay Hunter<\/a> (Toronto)
\nBoston Red Thoughts<\/a> (Boston)*
\nCamden Crazies<\/a> (Baltimore)
\nContract Year<\/a> (Oakland)*
\nDetroit Tigers Scorecard Blog<\/a> (Detroit)
\nThe Flagrant Fan<\/a> (General)
\nKings of Kauffman<\/a> (Kansas City)*
\nLady At The Bat<\/a> (New York)
\nMisc. Baseball<\/a> (History)
\nThe Next Level Ballplayer<\/a> (Other)
\nSeattle Mariners Musings<\/a> (Seattle)
\nSome Thoughts On Baseball<\/a> (Toronto)
\nTigers Amateur Analysis<\/a> (Detroit)
\nThe Tribe Daily<\/a> (Cleveland)*
\nTwins On Twins<\/a> (Minnesota)<\/p>\n

National League<\/span>
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball<\/a> (Fantasy)
\nAppy Astros<\/a> (Houston)
\nBlog Red Machine<\/a> (Cincinnati)
\nCincinnati Reds Blog<\/a> (Cincinnati)
\nDugger Sports<\/a> (Philadelphia)
\nThe Flagrant Fan<\/a> (General)
\nFungoes<\/a> (St. Louis)
\nMisc. Baseball<\/a> (History)
\nThe Next Level Ballplayer<\/a> (Other)
\nNorth Side Notch<\/a> (Pittsburgh)
\nPhils Baseball<\/a> (Philadelphia)
\nRockies Woman<\/a> (Colorado)
\n22 Gigantes<\/a> (San Francisco)
\nWhere Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke?<\/a> (Pittsburgh)<\/p>\n

Prior Winners: 2010: Josh Hamilton, Texas; Joey Votto, Cincinnati
\n2009: Joe Mauer, Minnesota; Albert Pujols, St. Louis<\/p>\n

The official website of the BBA is located atbaseballbloggersalliance.wordpress.com<\/a>. The BBA can be found on Twitter by the handle @baseballblogs and by the hashmark #bbba.  For more information, contact Daniel Shoptaw at founder@baseballbloggersalliance.com.<\/p>\n

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