# MLB Awards Voting and Argument Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [October 6, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674 "2015-10-06T01:26:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/1 "2015-10-06T01:26:13Z")
The baseball regular season is over so it’s time to argue over who should win the awards! Please post your ballots for all the awards yu’d like to vote for. We’ll be voting for AL MVP AL Cy Young Award AL Rookie of the Year NL MVP NL Cy Young Award NL Rookie of the Year To simplify things, rather than the varying voting systems they use for these things we’re going to simplify things on the MVP ballot; you can vote for only five men. Nope, you don’t get ten. Just five. Please vote for five names for MVP, five for Cy Young, and at least 3 but as many as 5 for Rookie of the Year. You must name 5, ranked; no ties. In each category, points will be assigned like this: 1 - 10 points 2 - 6 points 3 - 4 points 4 - 2 points 5 - 1 point Please do not game the system by omitting a name (e.g. “I want Smith to win but Jones is his cloest competition so I won’t name Jones at all.”) Once we have a lot of votes we’ll start arguing. Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/2 "2015-10-06T03:10:58Z")
AL MVP 1 - Mike Trout 2 - Josh Donaldson 3 - Lorenzo Cain 4 - Adrian Beltre 5 - Miguel Cabrera Mostly going by ESPN’s WAR numbers, but I refuse to believe any center fielder is actually worth 5 wins with the glove. AL Rookie of the Year 1 - Francisco Lindor 2 - Carlos Correa 3 - Eduardo Rodriguez 4 - Lance McCullers 5 - Ketel Marte Tempted to flip Lindor and Correa, but went strictly by WAR; hadn’t realized Lindor had been so good with the bat. AL Cy Young 1 - Dallas Keuchel 2 - David Price 3 - Sonny Gray 4 - Chris Archer 5 - Chris Sale NL Cy Young 1 - Zack Greinke 2 - Jake Arrieta 3 - Clayton Kershaw 4 - Max Scherzer 5 - John Lackey ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/3 "2015-10-06T04:17:52Z")
AL MVP 1-Josh Donaldson 2-Mike Trout 3-Manny Machado 4-Lorenzo Cain 5-Miguel Cabrera AL CY YOUNG 1-Dallas Keuchel 2-David Price 3-Felix Hernandez 4-Sonny Gray 5-Dellin Betances AL ROOKIE 1-Carlos Correa 2-Francisco Lindor 3-Miguel Sano 4-Devon Travis 5-Lance McCullers NL MVP 1-Bryce Harper 2-Paul Goldschmidt 3-joey Votto 4-Andrew McCutchen 5-Anthony Rizzo NL CY YOUNG 1-Zack Greinke 2-Clayton Kershaw 3-Jake Arrieta 4-Max Scherzer 5-Madison Bumgarner NL ROOKIE 1-Kris Bryant 2-Jung Ho Kang 3-Matt Duffy 4-Noah Syndergaard 5-Maikel Franco ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/4 "2015-10-06T15:29:09Z")
AL MVP 1 Josh Donaldson 2 Mike Trout 3 Lorenzo Cain 4 Manny Machado 5 Xander Bogaerts AL Cy Young Award 1 Dallas Keuchel 2 David Price 3 Felix Hernandez 4 Sonny Gray 5 Chris Sale AL Rookie of the Year 1 Francisco Lindor 2 Carlos Correa 3 Billy Burns 4 Lance McCullers 5 Eduardo Rodriguez NL MVP 1 Bryce Harper 2 Joey Votto 3 Paul Goldschmidt 4 Andrew McCutcheon 5 Anthony Rizzo NL Cy Young Award 1 Jake Arrieta 2 Zack Greinke 3 Clayton Kershaw 4 Jacob deGrom 5 Garrit Cole NL Rookie of the Year 1 Kris Bryant 2 Matt Duffy 3 Odubel Herrera 4 Jung Ho Kang 5 Justin Bour ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/5 "2015-10-06T17:56:23Z")
I expect AL MVP, AL Cy Young, NL MVP and NL ROY to be landslides. I would have gone with the 3 way tie for NL CY if it hadn’t been disallowed by the OP. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/6 "2015-10-06T18:12:40Z")
NL MVP Bryce Harper Clayton Kershaw Zach Greinke Jake Arrieta Joey Votto NL Cy Young Clayton Kershaw Zach Greinke Jake Arrieta Garret Cole Max Scherzer AL MVP Mike Trout Josh Donaldson Manny Machado Lorenzo Cain Kevin Kaiermaier AL Cy Young David Price Dallas Keuchel Chris Sale Sonny Gray Chris Archer I don’t follow the AL enough to have strong opinions on the above, but I am ready to fight over my NL picks. I am going to admit up front that I am putting Kershaw at #1 because I think he is generally going to be undervalued by others. It’s more of less a tie between him and Greinke for me though Geinke probably deserves it more. If I had an actual Cy Young vote I would do the same. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/7 "2015-10-06T19:17:45Z")
Is Kevin Kaiermaier really \*that good \*a defensive CF? Because you ain’t putting him in your top 5 for his hitting. And I guess I should not have been so fast to say the AL MVP would be a landslide. Trout getting some love despite missing the playoffs. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/8 "2015-10-06T19:57:10Z")
AL MVP 1. Mike Trout 2. Josh Donaldson 3. Lorenzo Cain 4. Manny Machado 5. Kevin Kiermaier AL Cy Young Award 1. Dallas Keuchel 2. David Price 3. Sonny Gray 4. Chris Sale 5. Corey Kluber AL Rookie of the Year 1. Carlos Correa 2. Francisco Lindor 3. Miguel Sano 4. Lance McCullers 5. Devon Travis NL MVP 1. Bryce Harper 2. Zach Greinke 3. Jake Arrieta 4. Paul Goldschmidt 5. Joey Votto NL Cy Young Award 1. Zack Greinke 2. Jake Arrieta 3. Clayton Kershaw 4. Max Scherzer 5. Jacob deGrom NL Rookie of the Year 1. Kris Bryant 2. Jung Ho Kang 3. Matt Duffy 4. Noah Syndergaard 5. Michael Conforto ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/9 "2015-10-06T21:13:29Z")
AL MVP 1. Trout 2. Donaldson 3. Cain 4. Cruz 5. Davis AL Cy Young Award 1. Keuchel 2. Price 3. Archer 4. Felix 5. Gray AL Rookie of the Year 1. Lindor 2. Correa 3. Sano 4. McCullers NL MVP 5. Harper 6. Greinke 7. Goldschmidt 8. Arrieta 9. Heyward NL Cy Young Award 1. Greinke 2. Arrieta 3. Kershaw 4. Scherzer 5. deGrom NL Rookie of the Year 1. Bryant 2. Syndergaard 3. Duffy 4. Kang ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/10 "2015-10-06T21:17:09Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > 5-Dellin Betances Not even Wade Davis is worth a 5th place vote for Cy Young with less than 90 innings. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/11 "2015-10-06T21:33:51Z")
> [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Is Kevin Kaiermaier really \*that good \*a defensive CF? Because you ain’t putting him in your top 5 for his hitting. And I guess I should not have been so fast to say the AL MVP would be a landslide. Trout getting some love despite missing the playoffs. I don’t know. I know I knocked him a couple slots from where the math seemed to tell me he belonged because he is pretty much all Defense and I don’t trust those numbers totally. Can’t ignore them either though. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/12 "2015-10-06T23:14:55Z")
NL MVP 1. Bryce Harper 2. Zack Greinke 3. Paul Goldschmidt 4. Jake Arrieta 5. Clayton Kershaw NL Cy Young 1. Clayton Kershaw 2. Zach Greinke 3. Jake Arrieta 4. Max Scherzer 5. Jacob deGrome NL Rockie of the Year 1. Khris Bryant 2. Noah Syndergaard 3. Matt Duffy 4. Jung Ho Kang 5. Joc Peterson AL MVP 1. Mike Trout 2. Josh Donaldson 3. Manny Machado 4. Lorenzo Cain 5. Dallas Keuchel AL Cy Young 1. Dalla Keuchel 2. David Price 3. Sonny Gray 4. Chris Sale 5. Corey Kluber AL Rockie of the Year 1. Francisco Lindor 2. Carlos Correa 3. Lance McCullers 4. Miguel Sano 5. Billy Burns ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-awards-voting-and-argument-thread/733674/13 "2015-10-07T00:46:31Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Not even Wade Davis is worth a 5th place vote for Cy Young with less than 90 innings. Wade Davis can go pound sand. I’m moving Betances up to fourth place.