{"id":9957,"date":"2014-11-13T09:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2014-11-14T08:13:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T13:13:19","slug":"2014-mlb-awards-predictions-vs-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=9957","title":{"rendered":"2014 MLB Awards Predictions vs Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7806\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/KershawClayton-unk-via-wiki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7806\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7806\" alt=\"Kershaw cleans up the BBWAA awards.  Photo via wiki.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/KershawClayton-unk-via-wiki.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kershaw cleans up the BBWAA awards. Photo via wiki.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8909\">who I predicted<\/a> would win.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL MVP: Kershaw<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Cy Young: Kershaw<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Rookie: deGrom<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Manager: Bochy<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL MVP: Trout<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Cy Young: Felix<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Rookie: Abreu<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Manager: Showalter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s who actually won, along with some links to other awards<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL MVP: <a href=\"http:\/\/bbwaa.com\/14-nl-mvp\/\">Kershaw comfortably<\/a>.\u00a0 Stanton 2nd, McCutchen 3rd.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Cy Young: <a href=\"http:\/\/bbwaa.com\/14-nl-cy\/\">Kershaw unanimously<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Rookie: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/abreu-voted-unanimous-al-rookie-232943664--mlb.html\">Jacob deGrom, named first on 26 of 30 ballots<\/a>.\u00a0 Hamilton 2nd.\u00a0 Surprised he won so handily.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Manager: <a href=\"http:\/\/bbwaa.com\/14-nl-mgr\/\">our own <strong>Matt Williams<\/strong><\/a>, by a large margin (18 of 30 first place votes).\u00a0 <strong>Bruce Bochy<\/strong>, who likely wrapped up his Hall of Fame candidacy with his 4th pennant and third WS title in 2014, finished a distant third.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL MVP: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2014\/11\/13\/mlb-al-mvp-mike-trout-victor-martinez-michael-brantley\/18992131\/\">Mike Trout, unanimously<\/a>.\u00a0 About time.\u00a0 Martinez 2nd, Brantley 3rd.\u00a0 Abreu was 4th, quite a showing.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Cy Young: <a href=\"http:\/\/bbwaa.com\/14-al-cy\/\"><strong>Corey Kluber<\/strong> in a close race over Felix Hernandez<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Rookie: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/abreu-voted-unanimous-al-rookie-232943664--mlb.html\">Jose Abreu, unanimously<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Shoemaker 2nd, Betances 3rd.\u00a0 Tanaka 5th; I would have had him higher.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Manager: <a href=\"http:\/\/bbwaa.com\/14-al-mgr\/\">Buck Showalter in a romp<\/a> (25 of 30 first place votes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>End result predicting 2014&#8217;s BBWAA awards: 6 for 8.\u00a0 My worst prediction season on record.\u00a0 2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=192\">8 for 8<\/a>.\u00a0 2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=3052\">8 for 8<\/a>.\u00a0 2012:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5004\">7 for 8<\/a>.\u00a0 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=7808\">8 for 8<\/a>.\u00a0 I swear I only looked up these links because I was re-categorizing posts and adding in a filter for &#8220;awards&#8221; related posts :-).\u00a0 Usually its a bit easier to predict the BBWAA electorate in these awards; I suppose that the general evolution of the writers is slowly bringing more statistical analysis into the mix, meaning that the &#8220;dinosaur&#8221; method of voting is heading out the window.\u00a0 Probably for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Links to other awards, some of which I used to try and track\/predict but no longer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/awards\/mlb_awards_content.jsp?content=gold_gloves_history\">Gold Gloves<\/a>; no love for the Nats, though Span and LaRoche were finalists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldingbible.com\/\">Fielding Bible<\/a>: no one from the Nats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hardballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2014\/11\/06\/2014-silver-slugger-award-winners-as-theyre-announced\/\">Silver Sluggers<\/a>: Desmond and Rendon both winners.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nesn.com\/2014\/11\/casey-mcgehee-chris-young-named-mlb-comeback-players-of-the-year\/\">Comeback Players of the Year<\/a>: <strong>Casey McGehee<\/strong> and former Nats farmhand <strong>Chris Young<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Links to a slew of other awards are on my <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1fxchTtCCA_G2TcASgctQDtj7mwB1NYDQVc-sGdcXDyk\/edit?usp=sharing\">Off-Season Baseball Calendar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s who I predicted would win. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL MVP: Kershaw \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Cy Young: Kershaw \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Rookie: deGrom \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL Manager: Bochy \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL MVP: Trout \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Cy Young: Felix \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Rookie: Abreu \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AL Manager: Showalter Here&#8217;s who actually won, along with some links to other awards \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NL MVP: Kershaw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2667,6],"tags":[424,2040,1687,1174,426,1957,1461,407,795,2653,2017,2166,2582,1314,2668,456,1589],"class_list":["post-9957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-nonnatsbaseball","tag-andrew-mccutchen","tag-billy-hamilton","tag-bruce-bochy","tag-buck-showalter","tag-clayton-kershaw","tag-corey-kluber","tag-dellin-betances","tag-felix-hernandez","tag-giancarlo-stanton","tag-jacob-degrom","tag-jose-abreu","tag-masahiro-tanaka","tag-matt-shoemaker","tag-matt-williams","tag-michael-brantley","tag-mike-trout","tag-victor-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}