2012 Postseason Award Finalists

[ucahogfan]

AL MVP
Miguel Cabrera - will win
Mike Trout - should win
Adrian Beltre
Josh Hamilton
Robinson Cano

AL Cy Young
Justin Verlander - will win
David Price
Jered Verlander

AL ROTY
Mike Trout - does anyone else matter?
Yu Darvish
Yoenis Cespedes

AL MOTY
Robin Ventura
Buck Showalter - will win
Bob Melvin - should be co-MOTY

NL MVP
Ryan Braun
Buster Posey - will win
Andrew McCutcheon
Chase Headley
Yadier Molina

NL Cy Young
R. A. Dickey - will win only because he has a knuckleball
Gio Gonzalez
Clayton Kershaw
HUGE SNUBS - Craig Kimbrel (should be the winner) and Aroldis Chapman

NL ROTY
Bryce Harper - will win
Todd Frazier
Wade Miley

NL MOTY
Dusty Baker
Bruce Bochy - will win
Davey Johnson - should win

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8604797/miguel-cabrera-detroit-tigers-four-others-finalists-line-al-mvp

[Hogtropolis™]

What time are they announcing MVP?

[ucahogfan]

Award Winners
AL MYP - Miguel Cabrera (Trout got robbed!)
NL MVP - Buster Posey
AL ROTY - Mike Trout
NL ROTY - Bryce Harper
AL Cy Young - David Price (Verlander got robbed!)
NL Cy Young - RA Dickey (Kimbrel got robbed!)
AL MOTY - Bob Melvin (tough call as Buck also deserved it)
NL MOTY - Davey Johnson

[ucahogfan]

Why Mike Trout should have won the award:

-  Once he was called up, the Angels had the best record in the AL.  He couldn't help the fact that the Angels were on the Astros level without him.  His team actually had a better record than the Tigers.

-  Trout was the 1st player ever to hit .320+, hit 30+ HRs, steal 45+ bases, and score 125+ runs.  Miggy won the Triple Crown which had been done before.

-  Trout should have won the GG in CF while Miggy is at best a below average defender at the hot corner.  Trout is an elite defender.

-  Trout had a WAR of 10.7 to lead the majors while Miggy was 3rd in the AL with a WAR of 6.9.  Oh yeah, Miggy played 22 more games than Trout (161 to 139).  So, Trout would have been worth 12.4 WAR if he had played as many games as Cabrera while Miggy would have had 6.0 WAR if he played as many games as Trout.  By the way, the only other AL OFs to have 10+ WARs in a season are all in the HOF and some of the greatest players of all time.  Trout had the highest WAR in a decade (Bonds in 02).

-  Mike Trout is the best player in the game right now, and isn't the award for the best player in the AL and not the best hitter.  Voters need to learn to look past offensive stats as the only indicator while looking at the whole package.

[Hogtropolis™]

I think the voting turned out exactly like it should have. I was pleased to see that the majority of voters agreed with my point of view on giving Cabrera 22 of 28 first place votes.

[bsking]

The fact that Trout didn't win the GG showed me he had zero shot in the MVP.  I would have voted for Trout, but I'm not upset at people voting for Cabrera.  It was very close to me.

[pigture perfect]

Cabrera deserved it for his offensive output this year. Being that no one has had a triple crown in 45 years. Trout deserved it for being a 5 tool guy that sets everything else in motion. I wouldn't have complained either way.

My only strong disagreement would be for Davy Johnson as MOTY. The whole Nationals Management team all need to be disqualified from anything because of the way they handled Straussberg.

[OnTheHillHogFan]

Cabrera deserved it for his offensive output this year.

No he didn't. He had a better year last year than he did this year.


http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/stats/_/id/5544/miguel-cabrera

[Oliver]

Crap.  I was really hoping Kimbrel would win.  Oh well.

[clutch]

A lot of people say that Cabrera shouldn't have won because of he wasn't great defensively, but in his defense he did move to a new position where he knew he would struggle more for the benefit of his team.

With that said, I still think Trout was more valuable to his team.