{"id":10536,"date":"2015-11-04T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T20:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2015-11-19T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:00:27","slug":"my-2015-end-of-season-awards-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=10536","title":{"rendered":"My 2015 End-of-Season Awards Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11504\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HarperPapelbon-choke-via-usatoday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11504\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HarperPapelbon-choke-via-usatoday-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Hopefully his MVP vote goes better for Harper than this day did. (Photo by Greg Fiume\/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 538595765 ORIG FILE ID: 490330798\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HarperPapelbon-choke-via-usatoday-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HarperPapelbon-choke-via-usatoday.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hopefully his MVP vote goes better for Harper than this day did. (Photo by Greg Fiume\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Everyone does an &#8220;Awards Prediction piece.&#8221;\u00a0 This post for me is kind of a running diary throughout the season, with the final predictions written at season&#8217;s end but then not published until after the WS ends\/Awards season starts.<\/p>\n<p>A few awards have already been given out, ones that I don&#8217;t necessarily try to predict anymore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gammonsdaily.com\/the-2015-fielding-bible-awards-winners\/\"><strong>Fielding Bible Awards<\/strong><\/a>: not an official award but certainly a better way of evaluating defenders than the Gold Gloves (though, to be fair, they&#8217;re getting much much better at identifying the true best defenders year in, year out).\u00a0 No Nats awarded.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.mlb.com\/news\/article\/99380188\/gold-glove-awards-finalists-revealed\"><strong>Gold Glove Finalists<\/strong><\/a>: announced with 3 finalists for each award; <strong>Bryce Harper<\/strong> and <strong>Wilson Ramos<\/strong> named as finalists but neither will win.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/m.nationals.mlb.com\/news\/article\/156091796\"><strong>Hank Aaron<\/strong><\/a> awards for &#8220;Most Outstanding Offensive Player&#8221; in each league: <strong>Bryce Harper<\/strong> and <strong>Josh Donaldson<\/strong>, who not surprisingly is who I chose for my MVP predictions.\u00a0 I kinda wish this was a more prevalent award than the constant arguing we have about MVP.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.nbcsports.com\/2015\/10\/28\/andrew-miller-mark-melancon-claim-reliever-of-the-year-awards\/\">Relievers of the Year<\/a>:\u00a0<\/strong>formerly known as the &#8220;Fireman&#8217;s reliever awards&#8221; and now named for legendary relievers\u00a0<strong>Mariano Rivera\/Trevor Hoffman<\/strong>: won this year by <strong>Andrew Miller<\/strong> of the Yankees, <strong>Mark Melancon<\/strong> of the Pirates.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.nbcsports.com\/2015\/10\/29\/alex-anthopoulos-named-executive-of-the-year-on-same-day-he-quits-as-blue-jays-gm\/\"><strong>Sporting News Executive of the Year<\/strong><\/a>: Toronto&#8217;s <strong>Alex Anthopoulis, <\/strong>who announced he was <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.nbcsports.com\/2015\/10\/29\/alex-anthopoulos-named-executive-of-the-year-on-same-day-he-quits-as-blue-jays-gm\/\">stepping down the same day he got the award<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A whole slew of other Sporting News annual awards: google &#8220;sporting news baseball awards 2015&#8221; and you can see players of the year, pitcher of the year,\u00a0 post-season all-star teams, manager of the year, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I put all these dates and links plus a whole lot more into my <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1rE05kljgY8i_IePey_KEDqS_Y8PNRqXQ4qEhqLO_NKI\/edit?usp=sharing\">&#8220;off-season&#8221; calendar<\/a>, which will publish soon now that the season is officially over.<\/p>\n<p>(random self promotion related to the Sporting News: they recently published one of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/profile\/Todd-Boss\">quora.com<\/a> &#8220;answers&#8221; titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/mlb-news\/4658748-heres-why-some-of-the-trendiest-up-and-coming-metropolitan-areas-still-dont-have-mlb-teams\">Are there Any cities that should have an MLB team<\/a>,&#8221; an answer that I wrote referencing back to this blog for previously published\/researched information).<\/p>\n<p>My Final Predictions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL MVP<\/span>: <strong>Bryce Harper<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL Cy Young<\/span>: <strong>Jake Arrieta<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL Rookie<\/span>: <strong>Kris Bryant<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL Manager<\/span>: <strong>Terry Collins<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL Comeback<\/span>: <strong>Matt Harvey<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL MVP<\/span>: <strong>Josh Donaldson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL Cy Young<\/span>: <strong>Dallas Keuchel<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL Rookie<\/span>: <strong>Carlos Correa<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL Manager<\/span>: <strong>Jeff Bannister<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL Comeback<\/span>: <strong>Prince Fielder<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are not always who I think *deserve* the awards necessarily, just how I think the voters will vote.\u00a0 There are some really close races.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL MVP<\/span>: <strong>Bryce Harper <\/strong>wins for three main reasons: 1) his season is one of the best of the last 50 years.\u00a0 2) there&#8217;s no obvious candidate on any of the division winning teams (no sorry, <strong>Yoenis Cespedes<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t count) and 3) Even though the Nats didn&#8217;t win the division, they were in the race nearly the entire season.\u00a0 No excuses here.\u00a0 You might see some non-Harper votes b\/c some middle aged fat slob of a homer writer has some misrepresented axe to grind but he should win easily.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL Cy Young<\/span>: <strong>Jake Arrieta<\/strong>: I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve selected Arrieta over <strong>Greinke<\/strong>, but Arrieta&#8217;s 2nd half will, again, &#8220;win the narrative.&#8221;\u00a0 <strong>Kershaw<\/strong> has been unbelievable too (and my fantasy team in the championship is proof), so really you can&#8217;t go wrong with these guys in any order.\u00a0 I think it goes Arrietta, Greinke, Kershaw.\u00a0 Side note; so, is the Baltimore pitching coaching staff the most incompetent in the league or what?\u00a0 How does Arrieta go from being a 6ERA starter in Baltimore to a guy who is posting a sub 2.00 ERA in one of the best hitter&#8217;s parks in the league?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL Rookie<\/span>: <strong>Kris Bryant<\/strong>: for a while I thought this was <strong>Joc Pederson<\/strong>&#8216;s to lose &#8230; but Bryant kept hitting and Pederson sat.\u00a0 Wow are the Astros kicking themselves for drafting <strong>Mark Appel<\/strong> over Bryant or what??<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL Manager<\/span>: <strong>Terry Collins<\/strong>: There&#8217;s no team in the NL in a more surprising position than the Mets, so Collins wins the award that our own <strong>Matt Williams<\/strong> so richly &#8220;earned&#8221; last year.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised though to see <strong>Joe Maddon<\/strong> get this given how great the Cubs were.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">NL Comeback<\/span> Player of the year has to be <strong>Matt Harvey<\/strong>; there&#8217;s nobody else really close in the NL.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL MVP<\/span>: <strong>Josh Donaldson<\/strong>: There&#8217;s just no reason <strong>Mike Trout<\/strong> shouldn&#8217;t win this award &#8230; except that voters are a fickle bunch and fall for the story.\u00a0 Donaldson is a good story, playing on a good story of a team in Toronto.\u00a0 He wins.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL Cy Young<\/span>: <strong>Dallas Keuchel<\/strong>: He was the best in the first half, the ASG starter, and no there&#8217;s no reason not to think he finishes off the season.\u00a0 In fantasy he was like a 15th round pick and he&#8217;s a top-10 producer.\u00a0 Amazing.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL Rookie<\/span>: <strong>Carlos Correa<\/strong>: If you want to argue that <strong>Francisco Lindor<\/strong> deserves this, I wouldn&#8217;t disagree.\u00a0 I&#8217;m guessing Correa has the name power with the voters though and wins out.\u00a0 Lindor has a much better average and is a superior defender, but Correa has 20+ homers, a benchmark number that will get him the votes.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL Manager<\/span>: <strong>Jeff Bannister<\/strong>: Even though Toronto is a surprise team, getting the talent handed to you like that is not the mark of a champion manager.\u00a0 What is going on in Texas is nothing short of amazing.\u00a0 At the beginning of the season the had an *entire rotation* on the D\/L: <strong>Darvish<\/strong>, <strong>Harrison<\/strong>, <strong>Perez<\/strong>, <strong>Scheppers<\/strong> and <strong>Holland<\/strong>.\u00a0 Scheppers may not have stayed there very long, but they looked like a 90-loss team, not a divisional winner over the likes of LA and Houston.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">AL Comeback<\/span> player of the\u00a0 year goes to <strong>Prince Fielder<\/strong> for returning strongly from his neck injury.\u00a0 If <strong>Alex Rodriguez<\/strong> had missed a year due to injury instead of litigation, he would likely be the winner.\u00a0 By the way; how good was Alex Rodriguez doing color work for Fox Sports at the World Series?\u00a0 He was damn impressive to me, great analysis, well spoken, well-dressed of course &#8230; and could not have provided more contrast to <strong>Pete Rose<\/strong> if they had found those two guys out of central casting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So, how did the major awards evolve over the course of the season?\u00a0 By my sense, the awards kind of went like this from April to September:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NL MVP: Stanton to Harper, maybe Goldschmidt, no definitely Harper, narrative Cespedes but has to be Harper.\u00a0 Nobody else makes sense to take it away from him on narrative.<\/li>\n<li>NL Cy Young: Scherzer early, definitely Scherzer, maybe Cole, suddenly Greinke in the lead, Kershaw coming on fast late but Arrieta&#8217;s 2nd\u00a0 halve clinches it.<\/li>\n<li>NL Rookie: Bryant and Pederson early, Pederson stretching a lead &#8230; but then Pederson gets benched while Bryant continues to play.\u00a0 Some talk about Duffy, but still Bryant.\u00a0 Too many homers.<\/li>\n<li>AL MVP: Trout to Cabrera, back to Trout, then Donaldson takes over despite Trout&#8217;s phenomenal season.<\/li>\n<li>AL Cy Young: Hernandez early, Keuchel strong mid season, Grey fading, Sale making a name but still Keuchel despite Price&#8217;s excellent season.<\/li>\n<li>AL Rookie: Travis\/Souza early, Burns making a name, but Correa is the leader most of the season, Lindor making noise late, Correa holds on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As with last year&#8217;s version of this post, instead of printing links to writers early and mid-season predictions, I&#8217;ll just throw those links into the monthly reviews for context.\u00a0\u00a0 This post is more like a season-long diary of the evolution of these awards; the sections were written in each month as the season progressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BaseballMusings maintains a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballmusings.com\/cgi-bin\/CyYoungTracker.py?EndDate=08%2F12%2F2015&amp;SortField=%28%28SS.FIP%2F6.0%29+-+SS.ER%29+%2B+%28SS.Ks%2F10.0%29+%2B+SS.Wins&amp;SortDir=desc\">Cy Young tracker stat<\/a>, which is useful to identify candidates but not really a predictor.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><br \/>\nApril<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some early candidates out to fast starts.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions this month: <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/mlb\/insider\/story\/_\/id\/12799281\/projecting-mvp-cy-young-rookie-year-winners-mlb\">Symborski<\/a>&#8216;s ZIPS predictors after one month.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>MVP candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Trout\/Cabrera again in the AL.\u00a0 Adrian Gonzalez, Giancarlo Stanton and Paul Goldschmidt in the NL.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cy Young candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Felix Hernandez in the AL, Kershaw and Scherzer in the NL.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Rookie of the year candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Devon Travis and Steven Souza in the AL, Kris Bryant and Joc Pederson in the NL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>May<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>Harper <a href=\"http:\/\/natsinsider.com\/2015\/06\/03\/harper-named-nl-player-of-the-month\/\">NL Player of the month<\/a>, after getting 2 straight player of the week awards.\u00a0 Scherzer wins <a href=\"http:\/\/curlyw.mlblogs.com\/2015\/06\/03\/nationals-rf-bryce-harper-and-rhp-max-scherzer-take-home-monthly-nl-awards\/\">NL Pitcher of the month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>MVP candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Trout stretching lead in AL, Jason Kipnis and Nelson Cruz also high in bWAR.\u00a0 Bryce Harper has stretched a massive WAR lead in the NL, Goldschmidt #2.\u00a0 Anthony Rizzo entering the discussion.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cy Young candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Dallas Keuchel and Sonny Gray in the AL, Max Scherzer really standing alone in the NL; closest WAR pitcher in the NL is Aaron Harang and he isn&#8217;t likely to keep the pace.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Rookie of the year candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Still Travis and Souza in the AL, Kris Bryant and Joc Pederson in the NL are both explosive players and will be hard to catch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>All Star Break<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>MVP candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Probably still Trout and Harper.\u00a0 Goldschmidt is nearly as good but Harper has the narrative.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cy Young candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Dallas Keuchel and Zack Greinke were the All Star starters and may be the leading candidates. Scherzer needs to get some run support; he&#8217;s barely above .500.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Rookie of the year candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Former Nat Billy Burns is in the bWAR lead, but Carlos Correa likely gets the nod.\u00a0 In the NL, Bryant\/Pederson have a commanding lead but Matt Duffy starting to put his name out there, and if the Cubs would just let Kyle Schwarber stay in the majors he might hit his way to the title.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Mid August<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>MVP candidates<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Trout has competition in the form of Josh Donaldson in the AL.\u00a0 Nobody&#8217;s close to Harper in the NL, still.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cy Young candidates<\/strong><\/span>: In the NL, Scherzer&#8217;s star has faded while LA&#8217;s two aces have each had a significant scoreless innings streak and could finish 1-2.\u00a0 Also in the NL; deserving candidates Jacob deGrom, Jake Arrietta and Gerrit Cole.\u00a0 In the AL, it still looks like a dogfight between Gray and Keuchel.\u00a0 But David Price is coming on strong post-trade and Chris Archer should get some top-5 votes.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Rookie of the year candidates<\/strong><\/span>: Its the year of the rookie; never before have we seen so many high-impact rookies in the league at once.\u00a0 The AL seems set for Carlos Correa, with guys like Roberto Osuna, Andrew Heaney and Lance McCullers chasing him.\u00a0 The NL has a number of candidates.\u00a0 Bryant and Pederson have gotten the ink, but guys like\u00a0Matt Duffy, Jung Ho Kang, Noah Snydergaard and Randal Grichuk are also worthy players.\u00a0 Taylor Jungmann, Kyle Schwarber and even Joe Ross are also rans in the race thanks to later callups.\u00a0 Bryant may win thanks to name recognition, but in other years any of these guys would have been candidates.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Managers of the\u00a0 Year<\/strong><\/span>: we&#8217;re 100 games into the season, early enough to see some trends in the &#8220;Award-given-to-the-manager for his team unexpectedly overachieving the most in 2015&#8221; award.\u00a0 In the AL, clearly Houston is the surprise team and in the NL the Mets are the surprise team, so we&#8217;ll go with A.J. Hinch and Terry Collins.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Comeback Players of the Year<\/strong><\/span>: Early candidates include Brett Anderson, Jeff Francoeur, Danny Espinosa and perhaps Matt Harvey.\u00a0 In the AL, I think it has to be Alex Rodriguez or perhaps Prince Fielder.\u00a0 Perhaps Chris Davis comes into the mix too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>September<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>MVP candidates<\/strong><\/span>: In the AL: Donaldson has overtaken Trout thanks to a huge end-of-season push and Trout&#8217;s injury.\u00a0 In the NL, the Nats downturn may have opened up the door for both Anthony Rizzo and Andrew McCutchen.\u00a0 That is if we listen to &#8220;narrative&#8221; about how teams need to be playing meaningful games.\u00a0 Of course that being said, the Nats are playing very meaningful games; they&#8217;re trying to chase down a divisional leader so maybe the narrative still works for Harper.\u00a0 But\u00a0 not after a home sweep, when NY beat writers start beating the drum for Cespedes .. .which would be ridiculous since he only played a couple of months in the NL.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Cy Young candidates<\/strong><\/span>: In the AL, it probably comes down to Keuchel and Sale, with Price in the mix too thanks to his sterling season for Toronto post-trade.\u00a0 In the NL: Arrietta has had the greatest 2nd half in baseball history; can he overtake Greinke?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Rookie of the year candidates<\/strong><\/span>: In the AL: Francisco Lindor making some noise but its still Correa.\u00a0 In the NL, Pederson has gotten benched so it looks like Bryant is the leader, despite Duffy&#8217;s better season by WAR.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Managers of the\u00a0 Year<\/strong><\/span>: at this point the &#8220;surprise&#8221; teams are the Mets and suddenly the Rangers.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll go with their managers Collins and Bannister.\u00a0 Some in the NL think Maddon and the Cubs are really the surprise team and they&#8217;re kind of right &#8230; but I maintain the Mets are even more so.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Comeback Players of the Year<\/strong><\/span>: I&#8217;ll go with Harvey in the NL, Fielder in the AL; nobody&#8217;s giving A-Rod an award.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone does an &#8220;Awards Prediction piece.&#8221;\u00a0 This post for me is kind of a running diary throughout the season, with the final predictions written at season&#8217;s end but then not published until after the WS ends\/Awards season starts. 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