{"id":8841,"date":"2010-10-25T10:40:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2010-10-25T10:40:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T17:40:33","slug":"roy-halladay-felix-hernandez-overwhelming-winners-of-walter-johnson-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/roy-halladay-felix-hernandez-overwhelming-winners-of-walter-johnson-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Halladay, Felix Hernandez Overwhelming Winners Of Walter Johnson Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baseball<\/a>2010 was often referred to as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the year of the pitcher.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d However, not all pitchers are created equal.<\/p>\n

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance announced today that Philadelphia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Roy Halladay was the unanimous selection for the National League Walter Johnson Award, receiving all nineteen first place votes. In the American League, Seattle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Felix Hernandez was almost as dominant, garnering all but four of the first place selections from the BBA membership.<\/p>\n

Halladay, who came over to Philadelphia in an off-season deal with Toronto, wasted no time getting comfortable in his new league, posting an 2.44 ERA, striking out 219 batters, winning 21 games, and throwing a perfect game to boot. While only the regular season was considered for voting, he also became only the second player to throw a post-season no-hitter when he faced the Reds in the National League Divisional Series. Halladay received 133 points, well ahead of the runner up, St. Louis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Adam Wainwright, who received 66.<\/p>\n

Hernandez\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s win was statistically more impressive, due to more ballots being cast in the American League and a wider range of pitchers receiving votes. His 2010 season, where he put up a sparkling 2.27 ERA, a 1.06 WHIP, and struck out 232 in just under 250 innings pitched, led voters to bestow upon him 137 points, with second place being New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s CC Sabathia, who received three first place votes and 62 points over all.<\/p>\n

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

American League
\nFelix Hernandez, Seattle (18) 137
\nCC Sabathia, New York (3) 62
\nDavid Price, Tampa Bay (1) 57
\nCliff Lee, Seattle\/Texas 41
\nJered Weaver, Los Angeles 22
\nJon Lester, Boston 18
\nClay Buchholz, Boston 14
\nFrancisco Liriano, Minnesota 13
\nTrevor Cahill, Oakland 5
\nJustin Verlander, Detroit 5<\/p>\n

National League
\nRoy Halladay, Philadelphia (19) 133
\nAdam Wainwright, St. Louis 66
\nUbaldo Jimenez, Colorado 52
\nJosh Johnson, Florida 43
\nTim Hudson, Atlanta 16
\nTim Lincecum, San Francisco 7
\nClayton Kershaw, Los Angeles 2
\nMat Latos, San Diego 2
\nHeath Bell, San Diego 1
\nYovani Gallardo, Milwaukee 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 233 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 for this award, were tabulated on a 7-4-3-2-1 point scale for first through fifth 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
\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)*
\nTwins Target (Minnesota)
\nBronx Baseball Daily (New York)*
\nContract Year (Oakland)
\nSodo Mojo (Seattle)
\nTampa Bay Rays News (Tampa Bay)
\n1 Blue Jays Way (Toronto)
\nInfield Fly (Toronto)
\nMisc. Baseball (History)*
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
\nBlogging From The Bleachers (General)*
\nVictoria Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*<\/p>\n

National League
\nMarlin Maniac (Florida)
\nMarlins Diehards (Florida)
\nFeeling Dodger Blue (Los Angeles)
\nThe Eddie Kranepool Society (New York)*
\nDugger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner (Philadelphia)
\nPhighting On (Philadelphia)
\nWhere Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? (Pittsburgh)*
\nStan Musial\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Stance (St. Louis)
\nC70 At The Bat (St. Louis)
\nFriar Forecast (San Diego)*
\n22gigantes (San Francisco)*
\nMisc. Baseball (History)*
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
\nBlogging From The Bleachers (General)*
\nVictoria Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*<\/p>\n

Prior Winners: 2009: Zach Greinke, Kansas City; Tim Lincecum, San Francisco<\/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":"

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