{"id":8982,"date":"2010-10-29T08:39:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2010-10-29T08:39:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:39:18","slug":"josh-hamilton-joey-votto-take-home-stan-musial-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/josh-hamilton-joey-votto-take-home-stan-musial-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hamilton, Joey Votto Take Home Stan Musial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baseball<\/a>The Baseball Bloggers Alliance concluded their award season today by naming the best player in each league for 2010. When all the votes were tallied, two men were comfortably ahead.<\/p>\n

Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton, who hit 32 home runs and fashioned an OPS of 1.044 while leading the Rangers into the playoffs, won the award in the American League. Hamilton received sixteen first place votes and 261 points overall, which put him ahead of his nearest competitor, Detroit first baseman Miguel Cabrera, by roughly 70 points.<\/p>\n

In the National League, helping Cincinnati to an unexpected divisional title paid off for first baseman Joey Votto. After a season where he cracked 37 home runs and posted a 1.024 OPS, Votto also received sixteen first-place votes toward his total of 252 points. He also denied St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols the chance to win back-to-back BBA awards. Pujols was selected as MVP by the BBA in 2009, but placed second with 197 points in this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voting.<\/p>\n

Winners of other Alliance awards also received votes in the Musial balloting. In the American League, Walter Johnson winner Felix Hernandez received 21 points, while Goose Gossage selection Rafael Soriano had a single mention. On the senior circuit, Walter Johnson winner Roy Halladay placed fourth in the voting with 101 points.<\/p>\n

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

American League
\nJosh Hamilton, Texas (16) 261
\nMiguel Cabrera, Detroit (4) 188
\nRobinson Cano, New York 158
\nJose Bautista, Toronto (1) 146
\nAdrian Beltre, Boston 107
\nEvan Longoria, Tampa Bay (1) 102
\nPaul Konerko, Chicago 65
\nCarl Crawford, Tampa Bay 56
\nJoe Mauer, Minnesota 50
\nShin-Soo Choo, Cleveland 44
\nFelix Hernandez, Seattle 21
\nVladimir Guerrero, Texas 13
\nJustin Morneau, Minnesota 12
\nDelmon Young, Minnesota 10
\nCliff Lee, Seattle\/Texas 8
\nCC Sabathia, New York 8
\nAlex Rodriguez, New York 7
\nClay Buchholz, Boston 4
\nMark Teixeria, New York 3
\nJon Lester, Boston 2
\nIchiro Suzuki, Seattle 2
\nNick Swisher, New York 2
\nJim Thome, Minnesota 2
\nKevin Youkilis, Boston 2
\nBrett Gardner, New York 1
\nDavid Ortiz, Boston 1
\nRafael Soriano, Tampa Bay 1<\/p>\n

National League
\nJoey Votto, Cincinnati (16) 252
\nAlbert Pujols, St. Louis (3) 197
\nCarlos Gonzalez, Colorado (1) 118
\nRoy Halladay, Philadelphia (1) 101
\nAdrian Gonzalez, San Diego 98
\nTroy Tulowitski, Colorado 98
\nRyan Zimmerman, Washington 93
\nMatt Holliday, St. Louis 84
\nAubrey Huff, San Francisco 32
\nAdam Wainwright, St. Louis 17
\nUbaldo Jimenez, Colorado 16
\nJosh Johnson, Florida 16
\nDan Uggla, Florida 16
\nJayson Werth, Philadelphia 16
\nRyan Braun, Milwaukee 13
\nPrince Fielder, Milwaukee 10
\nRyan Howard, Philadelphia 9
\nMartin Prado, Atlanta 7
\nJason Heyward, Atlanta 6
\nRickie Weeks, Milwaukee 5
\nDavid Wright, New York 5
\nAdam Dunn, Washington 4
\nKelly Johnson, Arizona 4
\nAndres Torres, San Francisco 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 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
\nCamden Crazies (Baltimore)*
\nThe Bottom Line (Boston)*
\nThe Tribe Daily (Cleveland)*
\nMotor City Bengals (Detroit)
\nSwitch Hitting Pitchers (Detroit)
\nOne Royal Way (Kansas City)*
\nTwinkie Talk (Minnesota)
\nSeth Speaks (Minnesota)
\nBronx Baseball Daily (New York)*
\nContract Year (Oakland)
\nRise of the Rays (Tampa Bay)
\nInfield Fly (Toronto)
\nThe Blue Jay Hunter (Toronto)
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
\nVictoria Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*
\nMisc. Baseball (History)*
\nBlogging From The Bleachers (General)*<\/p>\n

National League
\nBlog Red Machine (Cincinnati)
\nMarlin Maniac (Florida)
\nMarlins Diehards (Florida)
\nFeeling Dodger Blue (Los Angeles)
\nThe Eddie Kranepool Society (New York)*
\nDugger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner (Philadelphia)
\nWhere Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? (Pittsburgh)*
\nThe Outfield Ivy (St. Louis)
\nPitchers Hit Eighth (St. Louis)
\nFriar Forecast (San Diego)*
\n22gigantes (San Francisco)*
\nAdvanced Fantasy Baseball (Fantasy)*
\nVictoria Seals Baseball Blog (Other)*
\nMisc. Baseball (History)*
\nRon Kaplan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Baseball Bookshelf (Miscellaneous)*
\nBlogging From The Bleachers (General)*<\/p>\n

Prior Winners: 2009: Joe Mauer, Minnesota; Albert Pujols, St. Louis<\/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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