MLB Veteran Award leaders at 1/6 pole

The Game Room
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Here we are a month into the season, and here are my early veteran award ballots:

AL MVP

Davis
Santana
Jones
Napoli
Ellsbury
Jackson

AL Cy Young

Kuroda
Darvish
Sanchez
Buchholz
Moore
Iawakuma
Harrell
Anderson

NL MVP

Harper
Choo
Justin Upton
Segura
Desmond
Buck
Sandoval
Johnson
Pierre

NL Cy Young

Wainwright
Zimmerman (extremely close)
Burnett
Harvey
Westbrook
Garcia

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What?

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The bottom 4 are way back.

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Narrowing it down to realistic contenders:

AL MVP

Davis
Santana
Jones
Napoli

AL Cy Young

Kuroda
Darvish
Sanchez
Buchholz
Moore

NL MVP

Harper
Choo (close race)
Justin Upton
Segura
Desmond

NL CY Young

Wainwright
Zimmerman (close)
Burnett

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For AL MVP, I’d replace Napoli and Jones with Miguel Cabrera and Robinson Cano. Jones is really close but Napoli just has a bunch of rbi’s and not much else.

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Ian Kinsler for AL MVP. Nobody seems to notice the Rangers are doing well again.