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Clayton Kershaw may be the sole unanimous major award winner in 2013. Photo via wiki.<\/p><\/div>\n

This post is months in the making. \u00a0In WordPress I looked up the first revision and it was dated May 4th. \u00a0Its on at least its 50th revision. \u00a0Its crazy. \u00a0But its a fun piece to do, to kind of keep track of these awards throughout the season. \u00a0But with yesterday’s release of the top-3 candidates for each BBWAA award<\/a>, I thought it was finally time to publish. \u00a0The top-3 announcement didn’t have too many surprises in it, but was eye opening for some of the also-rans in each category.<\/p>\n

I like seeing how well I can predict these awards by reading the tea leaves of the various opinions that flow into my RSS feed (here’s\u00a02012’s version of the same post<\/a>\u00a0with links to prior years).\u00a0\u00a0The goal is to go 8-for-8 predicting the major awards, with an even loftier goal of going 12-for-12 adding in the unofficial Sporting News awards. \u00a0I succeeded in 8-for-8 in 2010<\/a> and 2011<\/a>, but missed out last year<\/a> by over-thinking the Manager of the Year award in the AL. \u00a0 This year is going to be tougher; the NL Rookie award and the AL Manager of the Year award are going to be coin-flips.<\/p>\n

Here’s links for the\u00a0MLB Players of the Month<\/a>, to include Player, Pitcher and Rookies of the month, though frankly these monthly awards don’t amount to much. \u00a0But they’re fun to go see who was hot and how they ended up (think\u00a0Evan Gattis<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Here’s links to some mid-season award prediction columns from Tom Verducci<\/a>, Matthew Pouliot<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Jayson Stark<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Here’s an\u00a08\/27\/13 post from Keith Law<\/a>, <\/strong>a\u00a09\/5\/13 post from\u00a0Cliff Corcoran<\/a>, <\/strong>and a\u00a0<\/strong>9\/25\/13 prediction piece<\/a> from USA Today’s\u00a0Frank Nightengale<\/strong> that may be very telling about the Cabrera\/Trout debate. \u00a0 Lastly a few end of season pieces from Stark<\/a>, Passan<\/a>, Pouliot NL<\/a>\u00a0and AL<\/a>, Gammons<\/a>, Keri<\/a>, Olney<\/a>, Heyman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lastly here’s a great\u00a0Joe Posnanski<\/strong> piece complaining about the faults the typical BBWAA voter<\/a> has in their methodology. \u00a0He touches on some themes I mention below. \u00a0Remember this is a prediction piece, not who I necessarily think should actually win.<\/p>\n

Without further ado, here’s my predictions and thoughts on the awards (predicted winners in Blue<\/span><\/strong>).<\/p>\n