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Date Posted: 12:18:42 10/01/02 Tue
Author: weas
Subject: Re: Post Season Award Picks...
In reply to: Dennis 's message, "Re: Post Season Award Picks..." on 00:05:14 10/01/02 Tue

OK, here are my picks, and a few thoughts tossed in, of course:
NL MVP- Bonds is clearly on his own planet now, but I think Vlad Guerrero and Albert Pujols are both deserving as well.
NL Cy Young- Randy Johnson is who he has always been, it took Curt Schilling getting sent to be with Johnson to find himself, that ends the debate for me.
NL ROY- Jason Jennings. ANY pitcher who can win 15 games at Coors deserves a parade. Any rookie who does it deserves a mercy trade.
NL Manager- I agree with Jim Tracy as the choice, but I have to say a lot of managers in the NL did bang up jobs and had better years than fans could have expected, especially Jimy Williams and Frank Robinson. The entire West was either contending or tough again, and even though Atlanta ran away with the East, everyone except the Mets played at or near .500 with teams noone even remembered after June. In the Central, Cincy made a great 1st half run, and Houston came back from the dead to make it a race until the last couple of weeks.

AL MVP- A-Rod is clearly the best all around player in the game and most deserving of the award, but since that's a longshot, it has to go to Tejada. Yes, Soriano has had a monster year, easily compared for 2nd basemen to what A-Rod is doing to SS standards. (BTW, check last years post-WS posts on here, and you'll see that it was your's truly who announced that Soriano had arrived, and several others who doubted. TAKE THAT lol.) The thing to take into account when looking at Soriano's numbers though, is he does it with 19 games apiece against Baltimore, TB, and Toronto. Tejada not only has the numbers, he carried a team many left for dead this winter when Giambi signed with NY, with his play, his enthusiasm, and his timing with the clutch play.
Cy Young- OK, Zito has the wins edge, Pedro has winning %, ERA, K's, and pedigree. Pedro was again the best, but SOMEONE from Oakland needs to win it, they've gotten robbed the past 2 years already.
AL ROY- Hinske was great, Lopez in Baltimore was better and prolly has a better future, so give it to Hinske.
AL Manager- Yeah the Angels were impressive, but not losing a million games to injury for once was as big a difference as anything for them. And they mildly choked at the end again. Art Howe and Ron Gardenhire meet in the playoffs, let the winner have the award.

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