Beyond the Box Score - 2013 Beyond the Box Score awards
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2013-11-14T16:00:06-05:00
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2013-11-14T16:00:06-05:00
2013-11-14T16:00:06-05:00
Mike Trout wins Beyond The Box Score AL MVP
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<figcaption>Mike Trout is our MVP, and it isn't really close. | Jason Miller</figcaption>
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<p>It's a year later and we're all singing the same song. Mike Trout is our MVP, even if he isn't going to win the real thing.</p> <p>Chances are that if you're reading this, you've likely spent some time around sabermetrics. If you haven't, welcome! This is Beyond The Box Score and we love using advanced stats to analyze the greatest game in the world. We invite you to stick around and get to know us and the funny looking acronyms we're always prattling on about. The whole endeavor is about understanding the game as completely as possible. That's all. Some of us write from our mother's basement, but most of us are functioning members of society who are interested in more thoughtful analysis. Below, we've voted decisively in favor of <span>Mike Trout</span> as the AL MVP. Here's why.</p>
<p>There's a reasonable case to be made for <span>Josh Donaldson</span> and <span>Chris Davis</span>, but it's going to get very complicated if we don't boil it down to two choices; Mike Trout and Miguel Cabrera. The award asks us to consider their actual value, offensively and defensively, to their team. We're asked to consider games played and effort, but there's nothing in the award that says anything about making the playoffs. In fact, it explicitly says the opposite:</p>
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<p>The MVP need not come from a division winner or other playoff qualifier.</p>
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<p>So Mike Trout and his below average <a href="https://www.halosheaven.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Angels</a> are allowed to compete. Let's start with offensive value. Mike Trout had 716 PA to <span>Miguel Cabrera's</span> 652. On the surface, that isn't very meaningful, but it tells us that we should read any rate statistics with the knowledge that Trout was in action more than Cabrera. Now we need to consider how we want to measure offensive value. Most of us think a context neutral measurement makes sense. You don't get to decide whether you come to the plate with men on base or not. We should only judge you by what you can control.</p>
<p>If we care about overall performance, then let's look to wRC+ as a measure of value. Mike Trout finished at 176 and Cabrera at 192. Cabrera was the better hitter when we adjust for park effects, but the distance isn't enormous. When we convert that into a run value based on the number of plate appearances Trout stands at 61.5 and Cabrera at 67.9. These offensive values are based on the actual value of each offensive action, which means walks count and each type of hit is weighted to its true run value and not an artificial value like we see in SLG.</p>
<p>When we look at BsR to evaluate baserunning, which considers stolen bases and extra bases taken in conjunction with outs made on the bases, Trout leads 8.1 to -4.4, which is enough to wipe away Cabrera's offensive lead. Trout now stands at 69.6 and Cabrera at 63.5. If you like context dependent numbers instead, Cabrera leads in RE24 by about three runs.</p>
<p>When you consider hitting and baserunning, Trout has a small lead in context neutral numbers and Cabrera has a small lead in context dependent numbers. It's essentially a tie. Offensively, they are equally as valuable even if they are differently valuable. That's important. Trout gets on base so his team can drive him in. Cabrera drives in his teammates. Those are both necessary parts of offensive production and hanging a "run producer" moniker on the RBI guy is extremely misguided considering he needs an R guy on base for that to even work.</p>
<p>If we move on to the tie breaker, it's not even close. Mike Trout is much better defensively than Miguel Cabrera. Some of the defensive stats thought Trout took a step back in 2013, but however you slice it he's the better player. UZR has Trout about four runs above average and Cabrera about 17 below average for a difference of more than 20 runs. Defensive Runs Saved has Trout at -9 and Cabrera at -18. Even if you take the worst case scenario, Trout is significantly better. We don't even have to factor in the slight positional edge for Trout to come to the clear conclusion that Trout was the better player in 2013. If you think defensive stats are fluky, the three year trend tells the same story. So does a simple comparison of turning batted balls into outs relative to positional average.</p>
<p>To assault Trout's candidacy, you have to twist the definition of "value" or you have to find some way to argue that Trout played a cakewalk schedule and Cabrera didn't. Neither argument works here. I didn't even use Wins Above Replacement to make the case, but fWAR has it at 10.4 to 7.6 in favor of Mike Trout.</p>
<p>It isn't really close and our writers agreed.</p>
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<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 4534; width: 93pt;" width="124">
<col style="width: 48pt;" span="11" width="64">
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<td style="height: 15.0pt; width: 28pt;" width="37" height="20">Rank</td>
<td style="width: 93pt;" width="124" class="xl63">Player</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">1st</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">2nd</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">3rd</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">4th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">5th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">6th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">7th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">8th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">9th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">10th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">Points</td>
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<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">1</td>
<td class="xl63">Mike Trout</td>
<td class="xl63">15</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">219</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">2</td>
<td class="xl63">Miguel Cabrera</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">13</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">147</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">3</td>
<td class="xl63">Chris Davis</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">8</td>
<td class="xl63">7</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">122</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">4</td>
<td class="xl63">Josh Donaldson</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">5</td>
<td class="xl63">8</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">117</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">5</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Evan Longoria</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">11</td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">94</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">6</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Robinson Cano</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">7</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">60</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">7</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Max Scherzer</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">34</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">8</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Manny Machado</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">5</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">33</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">9</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Adrian Beltre</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">28</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">10</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Jacoby Ellsbury</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">26</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">11</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Dustin Pedroia</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">12</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">12</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Anibal Sanchez</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">10</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">13</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Joe Mauer</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">10</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">14</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Jason Kipnis</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">15</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>David Ortiz</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">5</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">16</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Ben Zobrist</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">17</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Justin Verlander</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">18</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Felix Hernandez</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">19</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Edwin Encarnacion</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">20</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Adam Jones</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">21</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Chris Sale</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">22</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Shane Victorino</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
</tr>
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<p> </p>
<p>And our full balloting:</p>
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<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3584; width: 74pt;" width="98">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2779; width: 57pt;" width="76">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" span="2" width="85">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2889; width: 59pt;" width="79">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" width="85">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2889; width: 59pt;" width="79">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" width="85">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3584; width: 74pt;" width="98">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" width="85">
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<td style="height: 15.0pt; width: 74pt;" width="98" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Voter Name</td>
<td style="width: 57pt;" width="76" dir="LTR" class="xl65">1</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">2</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">3</td>
<td style="width: 59pt;" width="79" dir="LTR" class="xl65">4</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">5</td>
<td style="width: 59pt;" width="79" dir="LTR" class="xl65">6</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">7</td>
<td style="width: 74pt;" width="98" dir="LTR" class="xl65">8</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">9</td>
<td style="width: 61pt;" width="81" dir="LTR" class="xl65">10</td>
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<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Lance Rinker</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Sanchez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Hernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Andrew Ball</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ortiz</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Mauer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ellsbury</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Jeff Long</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ellsbury</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Jon Roegele</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Pedroia</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Encarnacion</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Stuart Wallace</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ellsbury</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Jones</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Mauer</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Ben Horrow</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Zobrist</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kipnis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Stephen Loftus</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ellsbury</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Matt Hunter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ellsbury</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kipnis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Victorino</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Alex Kienholz</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ellsbury</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Mauer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kipnis</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Alex Skillin</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Pedroia</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Andrew Shen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Pedroia</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Hernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl67" height="20">TBA</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Sanchez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Sale</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl67" height="20">TBA</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Verlander</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Sanchez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65"></td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Bryan Grosnick</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Mauer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ellsbury</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Encarnacion</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Randy Holt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Beltre</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Pedroia</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ortiz</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Neil Weinberg</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Trout</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cabrera</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Donaldson</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Davis</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Longoria</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Cano</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Machado</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Scherzer</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Sanchez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Hernandez</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph24" align="center"><b>. . .</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><i>All statistics courtesy of <a href="http://www.fangraphs.com/" target="_blank">FanGraphs</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>Neil Weinberg is a writer and editor at <a href="http://beyondtheboxscore.com/" target="_blank">Beyond The Box Score</a>, contributor to </i><a href="http://gammonsdaily.com/"><i>Gammons Daily</i></a><i>, and can also be found writing enthusiastically about the <a href="https://www.blessyouboys.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Detroit Tigers</a> at </i><a href="http://newenglishd.com/"><i>New English D</i></a><i>. You can follow and interact with him on Twitter at <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/neilweinberg44">@NeilWeinberg44</a>.</i></p>
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Neil Weinberg
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2013-11-14T13:00:09-05:00
McCutchen named Beyond The Box Score NL MVP
<figure>
<img alt="It wasn't a runaway, but all signs point to Andrew McCutchen." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/rLPVq_aCmUQOTkBUBtlzrb0xJ5s=/8x0:990x655/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/23106039/gyi0065077605.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>It wasn't a runaway, but all signs point to Andrew McCutchen. | Jared Wickerham</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>For most of the season, the National League MVP race was wide open, but in the final weeks the Pirates' leading man pulled away from the pack.</p> <p>The Most Valuable Player Award is both wonderful and infuriating. Those aren't two words that normally hang out together, but here we are. The MVP is a really fun award to discuss with like minded people because it gets to the heart of why we love analyzing sports. There are a lot of judgment calls to be made about objective data and when you get in a room with other smart people, you can learn a lot about the game. How much does a player's position matter? I think there are some really interesting ideas about that subject and we get to incorporate that into this conversation that also includes how we weigh offense and defense, who their competition was, and all kinds of other variables. If you're looking at this as an exercise in statistics, the model specification conversations are wonderful.</p>
<p>But on the other side of the MVP debate are the people who make up their mind based on some strange definition of value that doesn't really mean value. They want to cast their vote for "Most #3 Hitter On The Team That Was The Best" because that's how they've always thought about value. Sometimes that player is the most valuable and sometimes not. That's the infuriating part because the voting population is mostly in this second group. Instead of interesting discussions, we hear things like "RBI" and "played in meaningless games," as if it was easier for one player to hit a <span>Clayton Kershaw</span> curveball because his team was ten games back.</p>
<p>Luckily for us, in the National League this season, both worldviews arrive at the same answer. As long as you're willing to avoid RBI as a qualifying factor, <span>Andrew McCutchen</span> is your guy. It's not a runaway, but it's decisive. A few of our writers went with someone else and plenty of us could make a case for someone other than the <a href="https://www.bucsdugout.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Pirates</a>' center fielder, but if you have to make a call, it's an easy call to make. And we can all rest easy knowing that we don't have to worry about the old guard ruining this one. McCutchen led his team to the playoffs, so they're good.</p>
<p>McCutchen played in 157 games in 2013 and turned in an impressive 155 wRC+ in addition to being a top flight baserunner (5.1 BsR) and a +7 defender according to both UZR and DRS. Not surprisingly, he led the league in fWAR (8.2). To make a strong case against McCutchen you'd have to attack the accuracy of our measures of performance or find a way to explain away his success due to competition or luck. His 2013 BABIP was actually lower than his 2012 BABIP, so that becomes difficult. It doesn't hurt that he played on a winner and for a team that finally made it to the playoffs after so long, but those are tiny little factors that we only care about if we can't decide.</p>
<p>Based on the best measures we have, McCutchen was the National League's top performer in 2013. <span>Matt Carpenter</span> and <span>Joey Votto</span> both earned first place votes in our balloting while six different players earned second place votes and eight earned third place votes. This was a deep group. McCutchen made some distance, but for about five months of the year, I couldn't really decide among the top seven or eight players on my own ballot. In all honesty, the distance between 1 and 6 on my NL ballot is probably smaller than the distance between 1 and 2 on my AL ballot (coming later today).</p>
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 655pt;" width="873" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<colgroup>
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 1353; width: 28pt;" width="37">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 4827; width: 99pt;" width="132">
<col style="width: 48pt;" span="11" width="64">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt; width: 28pt;" width="37" class="xl63" height="20">Rank</td>
<td style="width: 99pt;" width="132" class="xl63">Player</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">1st</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">2nd</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">3rd</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">4th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">5th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">6th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">7th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">8th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">9th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">10th</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64" class="xl63">Points</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">1</td>
<td class="xl63">Andrew McCutchen</td>
<td class="xl63">14</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">213</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">2</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Paul Goldschmidt</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
<td class="xl63">5</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">116</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">3</td>
<td class="xl63">Matt Carpenter</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">113</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">4</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Yadier Molina</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">90</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">5</td>
<td class="xl63">Joey Votto</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">89</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">6</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Carlos Gomez</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">85</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">7</td>
<td class="xl63">Clayton Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">77</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">8</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Freddie Freeman</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">31</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">9</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Shin-Soo Choo</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">24</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">10</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Matt Harvey</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">22</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">11</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Troy Tulowitzki</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">22</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">12</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Adam Wainwright</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">19</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">13</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Hanley Ramirez</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">7</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">14</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Russell Martin</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">15</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Hunter Pence</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">16</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>David Wright</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">17</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Ian Desmond</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">5</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">18</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Matt Holliday</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">19</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Buster Posey</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">20</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Yasiel Puig</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">21</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Andrelton Simmons</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" class="xl63" height="20">22</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Jayson Werth</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p>And our full ballot:</p>
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<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3584; width: 74pt;" width="98">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2779; width: 57pt;" width="76">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" span="2" width="85">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2889; width: 59pt;" width="79">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" width="85">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2889; width: 59pt;" width="79">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" width="85">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3584; width: 74pt;" width="98">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3108; width: 64pt;" width="85">
<col style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2962; width: 61pt;" width="81">
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<tbody>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt; width: 74pt;" width="98" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Voter Name</td>
<td style="width: 57pt;" width="76" dir="LTR" class="xl65">1</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">2</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">3</td>
<td style="width: 59pt;" width="79" dir="LTR" class="xl65">4</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">5</td>
<td style="width: 59pt;" width="79" dir="LTR" class="xl65">6</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">7</td>
<td style="width: 74pt;" width="98" dir="LTR" class="xl65">8</td>
<td style="width: 64pt;" width="85" dir="LTR" class="xl65">9</td>
<td style="width: 61pt;" width="81" dir="LTR" class="xl65">10</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Lance Rinker</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Harvey</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Wainwright</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Choo</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Andrew Ball</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Freeman</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Simmons</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Jeff Long</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Choo</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Freeman</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Jon Roegele</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Martin</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Pence</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Choo</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Stuart Wallace</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Desmond</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Freeman</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Werth</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Ben Horrow</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Freeman</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Choo</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Pence</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Stephen Loftus</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Freeman</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Wainwright</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ramirez</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Matt Hunter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Freeman</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Holliday</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Choo</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Pence</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Alex Kienholz</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Choo</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Posey</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Wainwright</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Alex Skillin</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ramirez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Wainwright</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Andrew Shen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Choo</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Freeman</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl67" height="20">TBA</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Wainwright</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Harvey</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl67" height="20">TBA</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Harvey</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Wainwright</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65"></td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Bryan Grosnick</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Choo</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Wright</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Posey</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Randy Holt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Freeman</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Ramirez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Puig</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 15.0pt;" height="20">
<td style="height: 15.0pt;" dir="LTR" class="xl66" height="20">Neil Weinberg</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">McCutchen</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Carpenter</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Goldschmidt</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Gomez</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Votto</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Molina</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Kershaw</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Wright</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Tulowitzki</td>
<td dir="LTR" class="xl65">Harvey</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph24" align="center"><b>. . .</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><i>All statistics courtesy of <a href="http://www.fangraphs.com/" target="_blank">FanGraphs</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>Neil Weinberg is a writer and editor at <a href="http://beyondtheboxscore.com/" target="_blank">Beyond The Box Score</a>, contributor to </i><a href="http://gammonsdaily.com/"><i>Gammons Daily</i></a><i>, and can also be found writing enthusiastically about the <a href="https://www.blessyouboys.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Detroit Tigers</a> at </i><a href="http://newenglishd.com/"><i>New English D</i></a><i>. You can follow and interact with him on Twitter at <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/neilweinberg44">@NeilWeinberg44</a>.</i></p>
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Neil Weinberg
2013-11-13T13:00:11-05:00
2013-11-13T13:00:11-05:00
Max Scherzer named BTBS AL Cy Young
<figure>
<img alt="The Tigers co-ace shares the Cy Young with no man." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/nPKbDHR40IbqKyTupOOlt9o2d_U=/13x0:586x382/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/22884565/gyi0061327585.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>The Tigers co-ace shares the Cy Young with no man. | Jim McIsaac</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Most of what you heard about Max Scherzer this season centered around his 21 wins, but even the analysts at Beyond The Box Score found plenty of reasons to name him the best pitcher in the junior circuit.</p> <p>While the Beyond The Box Score staff was nearly unanimous in awarding the the Rookies of the Year to Myers and Fernandez and was unanimous in awarding the National League Cy Young to <span>Clayton Kershaw</span>, the American League award of the same name was a bit more contested. Perhaps some BBWAA voters will look to his 21 victories and make up their minds, but even the bright minds at BTBS found plenty of reasons to select <span>Max Scherzer</span> as the best pitcher in the American League in 2013.</p>
<p>Scherzer's big year was actually a continuation of his strong finish in 2012 and plenty of prognosticators saw him as a breakout candidate going into 2013. The heterochromatic ace got off to a blistering open that resulted in an All-Star Game start opposite <span>Matt Harvey</span> and a tremendous amount of national attention due to his accumulation of a statistic called "wins."</p>
<p>But Scherzer was more than multi-colored eyes and lots of run support, he was a consistent and dominant starting pitcher. Across 214.1 innings, Scherzer turned in a 2.90 ERA in front of a weak defense to go along with his 2.74 FIP, 3.16 xFIP, and AL best 6.4 fWAR. He struck out nearly 29% of the batters he faced while walking fewer than 7% of them. On eight separate occasions he punched out ten or more hitters in a game and walked more than three just twice.</p>
<p>Scherzer's a believer in advanced metrics and had generally been a darling of sabermetricians. This year, he reached across party lines and won over the old guard with a mesmerizing trick in which he convinced his offense to score him a ton of runs and his bullpen not to blow any leads on days on which he pitched. It was a truly brilliant effort from one of the more deserving people in the sport.</p>
<p>He wasn't without competition, however. His own teammate, <span>Anibal Sanchez</span> was better on an inning by inning basis whether you care about run prevention or FIP, but a brief DL stint was enough to convince most of our voters that Scherzer was better overall. <span>Yu Darvish</span> had another terrific season and <span>Felix Hernandez</span> quietly added to his already impressive resume. <span>Chris Sale</span> found himself on a bad team and overlooked by many despite having one of the better seasons in the league. Iwakuma impressed some and Verlander was actually pretty good as long as you don't try to compare him to the bar he set for himself.</p>
<p>The National League has the high end market cornered, but the American League was rich with depth this year. The award goes to Scherzer for outstanding achievements in traditional and advanced statistics, but several others made it close.</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="532" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 399pt;">
<colgroup>
<col width="37" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 1353; width: 28pt;">
<col width="111" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 4059; width: 83pt;">
<col width="64" span="6" style="width: 48pt;">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" width="37" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 28pt;">Rank</td>
<td class="xl65" width="111" style="width: 83pt;">Player</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">1st</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">2nd</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">3rd</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">4th</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">5th</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">Points</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td class="xl65">Max Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl65">12</td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">102</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td class="xl65">Anibal Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65">4</td>
<td class="xl65">5</td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">54</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td class="xl65">Felix Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">4</td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
<td class="xl65">4</td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
<td class="xl65">40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td class="xl65">Yu Darvish</td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
<td class="xl65">6</td>
<td class="xl65">40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td class="xl65">Chris Sale</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65">5</td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65">31</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td class="xl65"><span>Hisashi Iwakuma</span></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65">11</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td class="xl65"><span>Koji Uehara</span></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">2</td>
<td class="xl65">6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td class="xl65"><span>Justin Verlander</span></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td class="xl65"><span>Bartolo Colon</span></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p>And here's our full ballot:</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="456" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 345pt;">
<colgroup>
<col width="98" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3584; width: 74pt;">
<col width="62" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2267; width: 47pt;">
<col width="74" span="4" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2706; width: 56pt;">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" width="98" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 74pt;">Voter Name</td>
<td class="xl66" width="62" style="width: 47pt;">1</td>
<td class="xl66" width="74" style="width: 56pt;">2</td>
<td class="xl66" width="74" style="width: 56pt;">3</td>
<td class="xl66" width="74" style="width: 56pt;">4</td>
<td class="xl66" width="74" style="width: 56pt;">5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Lance Rinker</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Andrew Ball</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Iwakuma</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Colon</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Jeff Long</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Jon Roegele</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Iwakuma</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stuart Wallace</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Iwakuma</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
<td class="xl66">Uehara</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Ben Horrow</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Verlander</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stephen Loftus</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
<td class="xl66">Uehara</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Matt Hunter</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Iwakuma</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Alex Kienholz</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Iwakuma</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Alex Skillin</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Andrew Shen</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">TBA</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">TBA</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Uehara</td>
<td class="xl66">Verlander</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">Bryan Grosnick</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Randy Holt</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Neil Weinberg</td>
<td class="xl66">Sanchez</td>
<td class="xl66">Scherzer</td>
<td class="xl66">Hernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Sale</td>
<td class="xl66">Darvish</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p align="center" id="paragraph24" class="pgh-paragraph"><b>. . .</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><i>All statistics courtesy of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fangraphs.com/">FanGraphs</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>Neil Weinberg is a writer and editor at <a target="_blank" href="http://beyondtheboxscore.com/">Beyond The Box Score</a>, contributor to </i><a href="http://gammonsdaily.com/"><i>Gammons Daily</i></a><i>, and can also be found writing enthusiastically about the <a href="https://www.blessyouboys.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Detroit Tigers</a> at </i><a href="http://newenglishd.com/"><i>New English D</i></a><i>. You can follow and interact with him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/neilweinberg44" target="_blank">@NeilWeinberg44</a>.</i></p>
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https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2013/11/13/5088058/max-scherzer-named-beyond-the-box-score-american-league-cy-young
Neil Weinberg
2013-11-12T13:00:13-05:00
2013-11-12T13:00:13-05:00
Kershaw wins BTBS NL Cy Young
<figure>
<img alt="Clayton Kershaw is the consensus National League Cy Young winner." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/wsAZtXktUhyiOtHOKdA8WBUmSwA=/0x21:490x348/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/22878831/120797952.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Clayton Kershaw is the consensus National League Cy Young winner. | Christian Petersen</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>For a good part of the season, Matt Harvey and Adam Wainwright were locked in a three-way race for the league's top pitching honor with Clayton Kershaw. Down the stretch, Kershaw separated himself from the pack.</p> <p>In late August, Beyond The Box Score was home to a lively debate comparing the seasons of <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.amazinavenue.com/">Mets</a> ace <span>Matt Harvey</span> and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> front-man <span>Clayton Kershaw</span>. In fact, I <a href="http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2013/8/26/4655266/sorry-kershaw-its-still-matt-harveys-cy-young-to-lose">wrote in favor of Harvey's Cy Young case</a> and stand behind everything I said at the time. Unfortunately for me, and really everyone who likes watching baseball, the Mets announced Harvey's season ending injury two hours after that post went live into the world. From there, it was really just about Kershaw maintaining his pace.</p>
<p>The peripherals favor Harvey and <span>Adam Wainwright</span> threw more innings, but Kershaw's mix of 236 innings and a 1.83 ERA, 2.39 FIP, and 2.88 xFIP are enough to set him apart. There's really no question that Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball at this point given his performance over the last three seasons and the slight decline of <span>Justin Verlander</span>.</p>
<p>His 2013 campaign was superb, but probably not nearly as impressive relative to his competitors as this balloting suggests. The BBWAA will likely hand him the award unanimously tomorrow as we have here, but the distance between Kershaw and his rivals is not nearly as large as the voting indicates. Kershaw, Wainwright, and Harvey were separated by less than half a win according to FanGraphs.</p>
<p>Kershaw pitched in front of a better defense than either of the others and limited runs against generally in line with that advantage. Clayton Kershaw earned this award, but it's worth acknowledging that Harvey and Wainwright weren't that far back. In all honesty, I don't think Kershaw was much better this year than he was in 2011 or 2012. He was an amazing pitcher who had better fielders behind him than he had previously. If you're a voter who cares mostly about results, Kershaw wins in a runaway. If you're someone who votes based on only what a pitcher can control, Kershaw wins a tighter race.</p>
<p>If it feels like this post is dampening the Kershaw love too heavily, just consider that there's really nothing original left to say about Clayton Kershaw. He's the consensus best pitcher in baseball, builds orphanages in Africa, and will soon have a net worth that rivals a handful countries.</p>
<p>Congratulations Clayton, here's another award.</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="584" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:438pt">
<colgroup>
<col width="64" style="width: 48pt;">
<col width="136" style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:4973;width:102pt">
<col width="64" span="6" style="width: 48pt;">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" width="64" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;">Rank</td>
<td class="xl63" width="136" style="width: 102pt;">Player</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">1st</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">2nd</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">3rd</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">4th</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">5th</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">Points</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td class="xl63">Clayton Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl63">16</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">112</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td class="xl63">Adam Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">11</td>
<td class="xl63">5</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">59</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td class="xl63">Matt Harvey</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">5</td>
<td class="xl63">7</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">47</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Cliff Lee</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
<td class="xl63">8</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">35</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Jose Fernandez</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
<td class="xl63">8</td>
<td class="xl63">29</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Jhoulys Chacin</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Jordan Zimmermann</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Craig Kimbrel</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td class="xl63"><span>Madison Bumgarner</span></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p>And here's our full balloting:</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="478" style="border-collapse: collapse;width:359pt">
<colgroup>
<col width="98" style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:3584;width:74pt">
<col width="60" style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:2194;width:45pt">
<col width="79" span="2" style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:2889; width:59pt">
<col width="72" style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:2633;width:54pt">
<col width="90" style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:3291;width:68pt">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" width="98" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 74pt;">Voter Name</td>
<td class="xl66" width="60" style="width: 45pt;">1</td>
<td class="xl66" width="79" style="width: 59pt;">2</td>
<td class="xl66" width="79" style="width: 59pt;">3</td>
<td class="xl66" width="72" style="width: 54pt;">4</td>
<td class="xl66" width="90" style="width: 68pt;">5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Lance Rinker</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Andrew Ball</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Jeff Long</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Jon Roegele</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stuart Wallace</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Zimmermann</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Ben Horrow</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Chacin</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stephen Loftus</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Matt Hunter</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Alex Kienholz</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Alex Skillin</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Andrew Shen</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">TBA</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">TBA</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Kimbrel</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bryan Grosnick</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Randy Holt</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl66">Bumgarner</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Neil Weinberg</td>
<td class="xl66">Kershaw</td>
<td class="xl66">Harvey</td>
<td class="xl66">Wainwright</td>
<td class="xl66">Lee</td>
<td class="xl66">Fernandez</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p align="center" id="paragraph24" class="pgh-paragraph"><b>. . .</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><i>All statistics courtesy of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fangraphs.com/">FanGraphs</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>Neil Weinberg is a writer and editor at <a target="_blank" href="http://beyondtheboxscore.com/">Beyond The Box Score</a>, contributor to </i><a href="http://gammonsdaily.com/"><i>Gammons Daily</i></a><i>, and can also be found writing enthusiastically about the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.blessyouboys.com/">Detroit Tigers</a> at </i><a href="http://newenglishd.com/"><i>New English D</i></a><i>. You can follow and interact with him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/neilweinberg44" target="_blank">@NeilWeinberg44</a>.</i></p>
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https://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2013/11/12/5087746/clayton-kershaw-named-beyond-the-box-score-national-league-cy-young
Neil Weinberg
2013-11-11T13:00:10-05:00
2013-11-11T13:00:10-05:00
Beyond The Box Score Rookies of the Year
<figure>
<img alt="Jose Fernandez joins Wil Myers as BTBS Rookies of the Year" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/QEmuMs5zC8gCTm9KtMwho2zCfEM=/0x290:3085x2347/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/22820385/178700837.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Jose Fernandez joins Wil Myers as BTBS Rookies of the Year | Scott Cunningham</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Despite a huge influx of young talent over the last few seasons, there was very little debate among Beyond The Box Score writers about who deserved this year's Rookie of the Year honors.</p> <p>Rookie of the Year ballots are often some of the more interesting ballots because defining what it means to be the league's best rookie is far more complicated than determining what "Most Valuable Player" and "Cy Young" mean. The question largely centers on how much you want to consider playing time as a factor compared to how well the player performed while they were on the field. Unlike with MVP and Cy Young voting, rookies aren't necessarily supposed to play every day. That openness in interpretation leaves us with some leeway in deciding who the winners are, but very few of our writers seemed to notice. We have spirited debates about baseball quite often, but with respect to these two awards, it was nearly unanimous.</p>
<p><b>American League Rookie of the Year</b></p>
<p>Sixteen Beyond The Box Score writers voted on the six major awards and only one of us put anyone other than Tampa Bay's Wil Myers in the top spot. It wasn't a banner year for AL rookies, but Myers likely would have earned the award in a reasonably competitive year (read: one that doesn't include Mike Trout).</p>
<p>Myers hit .293/.354/.478 in 373 plate appearances for the Rays while putting up a 131 wRC+ and 2.4 fWAR. Myers struck out more than 24% of the time and walked to first in just under 9% of his PA. In a small sampling of innings, UZR rated him slightly above average at 1.1 and DRS considered him slightly below average at -3, suggesting he performed near league average for a corner outfielder during the 2013 season even if that doesn't tell us a whole lot about him going forward.</p>
<p>Wil Myers will probably be best known for his inclusion in a controversial offseason trade for the next few seasons, but he can also add this feather into his cap.</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="398" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 299pt;">
<colgroup>
<col width="37" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 1353; width: 28pt;">
<col width="105" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 3840; width: 79pt;">
<col width="64" span="4" style="width: 48pt;">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" width="37" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 28pt;">Rank</td>
<td class="xl63" width="105" style="width: 79pt;">Player</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">1st</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">2nd</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">3rd</td>
<td class="xl63" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">Points</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td class="xl63">Wil Myers</td>
<td class="xl63">15</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td class="xl63">Jose Iglesias</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
<td class="xl63">7</td>
<td class="xl63">25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td class="xl63">Danny Farquhar</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">11</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td class="xl63">Dan Straily</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63">8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td class="xl63">David Lough</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">4</td>
<td class="xl63">7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td class="xl63">Brad Miller</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td class="xl63">Chris Archer</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">2</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td class="xl63">Danny Salazar</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td class="xl63">Martin Perez</td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63"></td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
<td class="xl63">1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p><b> National League Rookie of the Year</b></p>
<p>Much like the AL ROY, our writers had very little difficulty coming to a consensus about the senior circuit's best first year player. With apologies to Yasiel Puig, Jose Fernandez ran away with this one.</p>
<p>Most questioned the Marlins' decision to start Fernandez in the majors due to service time concerns, but they apparently knew he was too good to keep in the minors. In 172.2 innings, he posted a 2.19 ERA, 2.73 FIP, 3.08 xFIP, and 4.2 fWAR. His 27.5% strikeout rate, 0.98 WHIP, and 5.7 RA9-WAR all jump off the page as well.</p>
<p>Fernandez wasn't just a great rookie in 2013, he was one of the league's best starting pitchers period. Later this week we'll reveal the Cy Young ballots and Fernandez will figure prominently in that discussion as well. Not only did he have a great season, but if you're scouting him beyond the results there is a whole lot to like as well.</p>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="406" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 305pt;">
<colgroup>
<col width="37" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 1353; width: 28pt;">
<col width="113" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 4132; width: 85pt;">
<col width="64" span="4" style="width: 48pt;">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" width="37" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 28pt;">Rank</td>
<td class="xl65" width="113" style="width: 85pt;">Player</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">1st</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">2nd</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">3rd</td>
<td class="xl65" width="64" style="width: 48pt;">Points</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td class="xl65">Jose Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl65">15</td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">78</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td class="xl65">Yasiel Puig</td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65">14</td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65">48</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td class="xl65">Hyun-Jin Ryu</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">9</td>
<td class="xl65">9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td class="xl65">Trevor Rosenthal</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65">4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td class="xl65">Shelby Miller</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
<td class="xl65">3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td class="xl65">Matt Adams</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td class="xl65">A.J. Pollack</td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65"></td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
<td class="xl65">1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p>Complete Rookie of the Year Balloting:</p>
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<col width="64" style="width: 48pt;">
<col width="72" span="2" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2633; width: 54pt;">
<col width="69" style="mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 2523; width: 52pt;">
</colgroup>
<tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" width="98" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 74pt;">Voter Name</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR" width="62" style="width: 47pt;">1</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR" width="62" style="width: 47pt;">2</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR" width="53" style="width: 40pt;">3</td>
<td dir="LTR" width="64" style="width: 48pt;"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR" width="72" style="width: 54pt;">1</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR" width="72" style="width: 54pt;">2</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR" width="69" style="width: 52pt;">3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Lance Rinker</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Lough</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Andrew Ball</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Farquhar</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Miller</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Jeff Long</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Lough</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Adams</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Jon Roegele</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Straily</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stuart Wallace</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Archer</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Ben Horrow</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Lough</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Stephen Loftus</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Farquhar</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Matt Hunter</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Miller</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Perez</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Alex Kienholz</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Straily</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Pollack</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Alex Skillin</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR"></td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Rosenthal</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Andrew Shen</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Straily</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Miller</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">TBA</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Salazar</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Lough</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl65" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">TBA</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Farquhar</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Straily</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Rosenthal</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Bryan Grosnick</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Straily</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Randy Holt</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Archer</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Miller</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" class="xl63" dir="LTR" style="height: 15.0pt;">Neil Weinberg</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Myers</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Iglesias</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Lough</td>
<td dir="LTR"></td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Fernandez</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Puig</td>
<td class="xl64" dir="LTR">Ryu</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph24" align="center"><b>. . .</b></p>
<p><b> </b></p>
<p><i>All statistics courtesy of <a href="http://www.fangraphs.com/" target="_blank">FanGraphs</a>.</i></p>
<p><i>Neil Weinberg is a writer and editor at <a href="http://beyondtheboxscore.com/" target="_blank">Beyond The Box Score</a>, contributor to </i><a href="http://gammonsdaily.com/"><i>Gammons Daily</i></a><i>, and can also be found writing enthusiastically about the Detroit Tigers at </i><a href="http://newenglishd.com/"><i>New English D</i></a><i>. You can follow and interact with him on Twitter at <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/neilweinberg44">@NeilWeinberg44</a>.</i></p>
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