2023 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR CONTENDERS

The early to mid-sixties were rough on the New York Mets. They began their history by setting the record for most losses in a season in the modern era with a 40-120 record in 1962. Over their first six seasons, they averaged 108 losses a year and only avoided 100 losses in the 1966 season […]

Top 5 Most Interesting MVP Candidates in 2023 in MLB

Baseball fans around the United States and the rest of the world had an incredible experience in 2022. The entire season entertained fans from the first moment to the last, with many teams having outstanding campaigns. No two teams had a more successful season than the Philadelphia Phillies and the Houston Astros. The two franchises, […]

WHAT IS VALUABLE?

What does Willie McGee have in common with Lou Gehrig? What does Phil Cavarretta have in common with Ted Williams? What about Jim Konstanty with Willie Mays? The answer is they all won MVP awards. How is it that some of the greatest players of all-time have won the same award as players whose careers […]

How to Bet on the NL Rookie of the Year with Six Weeks Remaining

The NL Rookie of the Year race comes down to Trevor Rogers versus Jonathan India. Sometimes Rookie of the Year isn’t all that exciting, but this has the makings of a thrilling race down the stretch between two players already at star status. Rogers has often featured in the best MLB bets today. He’s been […]

The Awards: Who Won them the Most?

It’s offseason time, which means it’s also awards season, where we get to see who will win the AL and NL Rookie of the Year, Cy Young, and MVP Awards. But who has won each award the most in baseball history? Let’s explore the facts, shall we? Obviously, a player can only win the Rookie […]

The curse of the Triple Crown title

  By Ismael Nunez Miguel Cabrera just won the Baseball Triple Crown: (which means he led the AL) in Home-Runs, RBI, Batting; yet in the 2012 World Series he did not have the same type of production. One Home-Run in Game Four and struck out to end the Series.  Yet it’s not the first time a Triple […]

Verlander wins AL MLP

Tigers starting pitcher Justin Verlander was named the 2011 American League MVP today and there has been much discussion surrounding the topic. Finishing in a close second was Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury who posted career highs in batting average, home runs and RBI’s. A close third came Jose Bautista sporting his over 1k […]

Where’s the Relevance of the Gold Glove Award?

Free agency has eliminated some of the luster around the post-season awards already. The post-season awards used to be the only thing a baseball fan had to look forward to this time of year. Now, they are competing with the news about the Cliff Lee sweepstakes. Heck, even my hometown Astros are rumored to be […]

BBA 2010 NL Awards for Best Pitcher and Most Valuable Position Player

The Walter Johnson Award Going by the numbers for this award, I analyzed the following metrics: wins minus losses plus strikeouts, walks minus intentional walks (because that’s usually situational), WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched), ERA minus SIERA (a new Baseball Prospectus stat that reflects a pitcher’s true ERA). Points were also deducted for […]

BBA Award Nominations for Best NL Rookie and Relief Pitcher

The Willie Mays Award This year the BBA has renamed their awards as advised by the BBWAA, so the best NL  rookie for 2010 is named after Hall of Famer Willie Mays (not Hayes). As a warning, please note that defensive ability did not play a part in this decision like I would have liked […]

The BBA Connie Mack Award: My NL Prediction

Who was Connie Mack? He is only the manager with the most wins of all time with 3,731 from 1894-1896, 1901-1950! He was a player/manager for the Pittsburg Pirates from 1894-1896 and then with the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League from 1901-1950 for a total of 53 seasons. When you manage one team for […]

Former MLB Player Delino DeShields Surprises Kaleb Cowart with HS Baseball Award

Posted on behalf of Gatorade… 13-year MLB veteran (most recently of the Chicago Cubs) Delino DeShields helped surprise Kaleb Cowart of Abel, Georgia with the 2009-10 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year award. The Gatorade Player of the Year program is celebrating its 25th year in recognizing elite high school athletes throughout the nation. […]

BBA Announces Formation of Goose Gossage Award

Contact: Daniel Shoptaw E-mail:[email protected] 11 A.M. EDT, March 30, 2010 Baseball Bloggers Alliance Announces Formation of Goose Gossage Award The Baseball Bloggers Alliance is pleased to announce the formation of the Goose Gossage Award. Starting with the 2010 Major League Baseball season, the Goose Gossage Award will be a postseason award given to the top […]

Broadcaster Ernie Harwell to Receive Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award

Image by “CAVE CANEM” via Flickr Many around baseball have heard of Ernie Harwell, the longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers, and he will be recognized on May 5 with another honor to add to his Hall of Fame resume. On that date, Harwell will receive the Vin Scully Lifetime Achievement Award from Fordham’s WFUV […]

The Mark Redman Award Effect: Edwin Jackson

Image by Keith Allison via Flickr Each year, BaseballEvolution.com doles out Mark Redman Awards for both leagues, recognizing pitchers who began the season surprisingly well but crashed back to earth in the second half of the season.  New Arizona Diamondback Edwin Jackson won the 2009 AL Award.  Does that have any predicative value for Jackson’s […]

Wins and Loses: A Decline in Value?

Image via Wikipedia Congratulations to Tim Lincecum for winning the 2009 NL Cy Young award, just a couple short days after Zack Greinke‘s victory for the AL counterpart. But an even bigger congratulations is in order. A congratulations to the BBWAA voters. Just what am I getting at, you ask? As we’re all aware of, […]

Why Tim Lincecum will be your 2009 NL Cy Young winner

Image by Getty Images via Daylife After a year in which Cardinals starting pitchers Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright dominated the headlines, pitched their team to a division title and were expected to fight for some off-season hardware, it was the Giants’ Tim Lincecum who picked up the first post-season win amongst the trio. When […]

The Most Valuable Player in Baseball Might Surprise You

When you think of the best, most valuable players in baseball, what names come to mind? Albert Pujols, probably. Or maybe Chase Utley, Derek Jeter, Evan Longoria? There are plenty of big names out there that the average fans look at as the best players. This year, though, it wasn’t any of those guys. In […]

2009 AL Manager of the Year BBA Vote

In our first anniversary vote, the members of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) have asked it’s members to vote for the major awards (Manager of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young Award and MVP). To find out more about the Alliance please read our About the BBA page. Please help us to promote […]

Deserving Gold Glove Winners – A.L.

Image via Wikipedia Catcher: Catcher’s defense is by far the toughest to quantify, as there really isn’t a metric for it, and you pretty much have to go exclusively by stats like runners thrown out, passed balls, and dare I say, fielding percentage. Deserving Winner: Jason Varitek Reasoning: Highest RF/9 (range factor per game) among […]

MLB Awards: How Did We Do with our Predictions?

Here’s a list of the recently assigned MLB awards and how Baseball Reflections fared in predicting them. AL Rookie of the Year We at Baseball Reflections were right on with selecting Rays 3B Evan Longoria as the hands down choice. But in all fairness, this wasn’t difficult to predict. No one else even came close […]

AL Gold Glove Awards: How Did We Do?

AL Gold Glove Awards Last week, Bill announced his picks for the AL Gold Glove Awards. MLB announced the official list yesterday afternoon, lets see how he did: Pitcher: the official winner was Yankees starter Mike Mussina (another older player as the NL choose Greg Maddux), but Bill choose the White Sox Mark Buehrle. Catcher: […]

Who Had the Best Organization in the MLB in 2008?

According to Maury Brown and his staff at the Biz of Baseball, they picked the Tampa Bay Rays. We saw the Rays go from being one of the worst teams in baseball in 2007 to one of the best teams in 2008 as they hosted the Phillies in the first two games of the World […]

National League Gold Glove Winners

Bill’s NL Gold Glove Predictions The National League was actually harder to chose than the other league because there were not as many incumbents who were deemed so much better than their counterparts this year. (Note: these awards were given out to the best player at each single position, including the three outfield positions which […]

American League Gold Glove Winners

Bill’s AL Gold Glove Winners Some positions in the American League are easy to pick for the Gold Glove Awards, but others are considerably harder. While some positions have their popular players who have won the awards in the past, others have fluctuated in recent history. (Note: these awards were given out to the best […]

National League Rookie of the Year Prediction

Even though the pool of players to be considered in the National League for the best rookie is not as well known across the country, there are a good number of players who put up numbers that could be considered for the award. The top three position players and pitchers will be explained and then […]

The American League Rookie of the Year Prediction

The American League Rookie of the Year Award has some big names in the hunt. One played two months in the league before receiving a big contract extension, one was well known for his post season appearance last year and one even flew under the radar for most of the season even though he put […]

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