2012 Award Winners

I never got around to posting the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) postseason awards as they were announced. However, thanks to my negligence, the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) has also voted on their awards! So, below is a handy table comparing the two associations' choices for 2012:

	BBA	BBWAA
Connie Mack	AL: Bob Melvin	AL: Bob Melvin	Manager of
	NL: Davey Johnson	NL: Davey Johnson	the Year
Willie Mays	AL: Mike Trout	AL: Mike Trout	Rookie of
	NL: Bryce Harper	NL: Bryce Harper	the Year
Walter Johnson	AL: Justin Verlander	AL: David Price	Cy Young
	NL: R.A. Dickey	NL: R.A. Dickey
Stan Musial	AL: Mike Trout	AL: Miguel Cabrera	MVP
	NL: Buster Posey	NL: Buster Posey

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance also votes on the Goose Gossage award, given to each league's top reliever. This year Fernando Rodney was voted the AL winner, and Craig Kimbrel the NL winner. The Musings is a BBA member, and my ballot (AL only since I am a Mariners blog) can be found here.

The AL MVP debate has had more than enough words written about it at this point. I made my peace with the triple crown a few months ago, and won't write more, other than to note that the BBA picked Trout and the BBWAA picked Cabrera.

Back to warming my hands over the hot stove league...