{"id":8759,"date":"2010-10-21T09:20:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2010-10-21T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T16:20:50","slug":"rafael-soriano-brian-wilson-dominate-goose-gossage-award-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/21\/rafael-soriano-brian-wilson-dominate-goose-gossage-award-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Soriano, Brian Wilson Dominate Goose Gossage Award Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baseball<\/a>For an inaugural vote, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much of a contest.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay closer Rafael Soriano and San Francisco closer Brian Wilson handily won the Baseball Blogger Alliance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first-ever Goose Gossage Award, handed out to the best reliever in each league. Soriano and Wilson, besides leading their teams to the postseason, posted numbers that well-distanced themselves from their competition in the minds of the voters.<\/p>\n

Soriano, who captured fourteen first place votes in route to an overall total of 94 points, posted a 1.73 ERA and converted 45 saves in 48 chances. Soriano also had a 0.80 WHIP and struck out 57 in 62.1 innings pitched. He easily outdistanced Kansas City reliever Joakim Soria, who received 48 points.<\/p>\n

In the National League, Wilson accumulated seventeen first place votes and 104 points overall after his season in which he piled up 48 saves (in 53 chances) with a 1.81 ERA and a 1.18 WHIP. Wilson also struck out 93 in just 74.2 innings. He outpaced San Diego closer Heath Bell, who lagged behind with 52 points.<\/p>\n

While the BBA has named all of their post-season awards after greats of the game, Gossage gave his blessing to do so earlier in the year, inspiring the rest of the awards to be renamed as well.<\/p>\n

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

American League
\nRafael Soriano, Tampa Bay (14) 94
\nJoakim Soria, Kansas City (4) 48
\nMariano Rivera, New York (1) 23
\nJoaquin Benoit, Tampa Bay (3) 19
\nNeftali Feliz, Texas 12
\nMatt Thornton, Chicago (1) 9
\nDaniel Bard, Boston 1
\nJonathan Papelbon, Boston 1<\/p>\n

National League
\nBrian Wilson, San Francisco (17) 104
\nHeath Bell, San Diego (2) 52
\nCarlos Marmol, Chicago (5) 41
\nBilly Wagner, Atlanta 19
\nArthur Rhodes, Cincinnati (1) 5
\nHong-Chih Kuo, Los Angeles 2
\nMatt Belisle, Colorado 1
\nJonny Venters, Atlanta 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 234 blogs 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chapters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153group ballot\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was posted, accounting for both of their votes.<\/p>\n

Ballots are posted on the respective blogs and tabulated on a 5-3-1 point scale for first, second and third. 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
\nCamden Crazies (Baltimore)*
\nBoston Red Thoughts (Boston)*
\nThe Tribe Daily (Cleveland)*
\nMotor City Bengals (Detroit)
\nDetroit Tigers Scorecard Blog (Detroit)
\nOne Royal Way (Kansas City)*
\nTwinkie Talk (Minnesota)
\nOver The Baggy (Minnesota)
\nBronx Baseball Daily (New York)*
\nContract Year (Oakland)
\nJeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mariners Fan Blog (Seattle)
\nBaseball Is My Boyfriend (Texas)*
\nThe Blue Jay Hunter (Toronto)
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
\nMisc. Baseball (History)*
\nVictoria Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*
\nBlogging From The Bleachers (General)*<\/p>\n

National League
\nProse and Ivy (Chicago)*
\nReds Fan Central (Cincinnati)
\nMarlins Diehards (Florida)
\nMarlin Maniac (Florida)
\nFeeling Dodger Blue (Los Angeles)
\nThe Brewers Bar (Milwaukee)*
\nThe Eddie Kranepool Society (New York)*
\nDugger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner (Philadelphia)
\nRaise The Jolly Roger (Pittsburgh)*
\nRetroSimba (St. Louis)
\nFungoes (St. Louis)
\nFriar Forecast (San Diego)*
\n22gigantes (San Francisco)*
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
\nMisc. Baseball (History)*
\nRon Kaplan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Baseball Bookshelf (Miscellaneous)*
\nVictoria Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*
\nBlogging From The Bleachers (General)*<\/p>\n

The official website of the BBA is located at www.baseballbloggersalliance.com<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For an inaugural vote, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much of a contest. Tampa Bay closer Rafael Soriano and San Francisco closer Brian Wilson handily won the Baseball Blogger Alliance\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first-ever Goose Gossage Award, handed out to the best reliever in each league. Soriano and Wilson, besides leading their teams to the postseason, posted numbers that well-distanced themselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4235],"tags":[11776,11779,11772,3634,11778,3032,6713,2024,11777,1580,5105,11775,5790,11663,1990,11773,10425,11780,11781,11774],"class_list":["post-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-arthur-rhodes","tag-billy-wagner","tag-brian-wilson","tag-carlos-marmol","tag-daniel-bard","tag-goose-gossage","tag-hong-chih-kuo","tag-joakim-soria","tag-joaquin-benoit","tag-jonathan-papelbon","tag-mariano-rivera","tag-matt-belisle","tag-matt-thornton","tag-neftali-feliz","tag-place-votes","tag-rafael-soriano","tag-season-awards","tag-venters","tag-voting-results","tag-whip-wilson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}