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Lincecum wins NL Cy Young second year in a row

botond7f3iw | yesterday

NEW YORK (Reuters) –Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants claimed the National League Cy Young Award for the second successive year Thursday, winning in a close vote over Cardinals starters Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright. Lincecum, 15-7 with a 2.48 earned run average for the Giants, received fewer first-place votes than St Louis starter Wainwright in the balloting of members of the Baseball

SB Nation Baseball Awards (MVP Edition)

FishStripes (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

And the final SB Nation baseball awards was released, this one being the NL MVP. Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Pts 1 Albert Pujols St. Louis Cardinals 31 - - - - - - - - - 434 2 Hanley Ramirez Florida Marlins - 6 8 11 2 1 2 - - - 220 3 Chase Utley Philadelphia Phillies - 7 11 2 3 1 - 1 - 1 192 4 Prince Fielder Milwaukee Brewers - 5 4 4 7 7 1 - - - 186 5 Troy Tulowitzki Colorado...

2009 SB Nation Baseball Awards: Most Valuable Player

Amazin' Avenue (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

(Note: the following preamble is 99% unchanged from the previously announced awards, so feel free to skip it if you've already read it.) One of the nice things about having a whole network of baseball sites is that occasionally we get to pretend we're real writers and collaborate on projects with one another. Now that the baseball season is over, and before everyone's focus turns to the free agent...

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SBN Postseason Baseball Awards -- National League Most Valuable Player, and... The Good Phight Blogger Ballots Revealed!

The Good Phight (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

More photos » by Tom Gannam - AP Shocking, but Albert Pujols might win the National League MVP award this year! (AP Photo/Tom Gannam) Browse more photos » And the SBN bloggers roll out the last set of postseason awards... last but not least, National League Most Valuable Player. The not-shocking results (and the ballots of jonk and me on all awards) after the jump And the only even mild...

SBN Awards: NL MVP (hint, it starts with a P)

The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

by Matt Rourke - AP Is this Pujols? No. Is it an incredible dick-ish picture of Jayson Werth that I've been waiting ages to have a legitimate use for? Yes. View full size photo » Unanimity for presidents has been reserved solely for Washington. For Albert Pujols in 2009, all the denizens of SBN nation who cast a ballot lauded him with the honor being the unanimous NL MVP. Can anyone even make...

2009 SBNation Awards: MVP

Bleed Cubbie Blue (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

More photos » by Nam Y Huh - AP Mike Fontenot after a forceout of Albert Pujols in April at Wrigley Field. Browse more photos » No surprises here, at least not for me. I expected Albert Pujols to be the unanimous MVP among SBN voters, and he was. The AL winner is the guy I would have chosen; you may be a bit surprised at the second-place finisher. Points for MVP are awarded as follows:...

SBN Awards: NL MVP

Talking Chop (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

Every year the bloggers and members of the SBN baseball blog community get together and do our own BWAA-style voting for all of the major awards. No Braves finished very high in the voting. Surprisingly, Javier Vazquez was the Braves player who ranked the highest. Of course, Pujols won unanimously, as he should have, but it was a real scrum for second place votes. Here is the voting breakdown: Rk Player...

SB Nation N.L. MVP: Albert Pujols

Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

More photos » by Tom Gannam - AP St. Louis Cardinals' Albert Pujols connects for a two-run home run in the in the third inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates in a game on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 in St. Louis.(AP Photo/Tom Gannam) Browse more photos » No surprise there. Here are the full results (again, after the jump, because the charts don't fit): Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th...

2009 SBN Baseball Awards - NL Cy Young.

Federal Baseball (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

More photos » by Ben Margot - AP Did Tim Lincecum repeat as the SB Nation's 2009 NL Cy Young Award Winner? (AP Photo/Ben Margot) Browse more photos » In just his second MLB season, 24-year-old San Francisco right-hander Tim Lincecum was able to claim his first Cy Young award following a 2008 campaign that saw the '06 1st Round pick, taken 10th overall by the Giants, post an (18-5) record...

SB Nation NL MVP Award

True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

by Mark J. Terrill - AP "So Joe, you aren't really going to walk me every time a runner is in scoring position, right? Right?" View full size photo » Albert Pujols unanimously won the 2009 SB Nation National League MVP award, easily defeating Hanley Ramirez of the Marlins. Dodgers who received votes were Matt Kemp (11th), Andre Ethier (15th) and Juan Pierre (24th). Here are the results:...

SB Nation NL Cy Young Award

True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

More photos » by Keith Birmingham - AP Browse more photos » Tim Lincecum of the Giants won the 2009 SB Nation National League Cy Young award, easily outdistancing a pair of Cardinals, who figure to be much closer to the real award when results are announced next week. Here are the results: Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd Pts 1 Tim Lincecum San Francisco Giants 18 13 - 129 2 Chris Carpenter St....

SB Nation Baseball Awards (Cy Young Edition)

FishStripes (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

The results are in for the NL Cy Young award and here they are: Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd Pts 1 Tim Lincecum San Francisco Giants 18 13 - 129 2 Chris Carpenter St. Louis Cardinals 9 4 7 64 3 Adam Wainwright St. Louis Cardinals 4 4 10 42 4 Javier Vazquez Atlanta Braves - 5 7 22 5 Dan Haren Arizona Diamondbacks - 3 4 13 6 Ubaldo Jimenez Colorado Rockies - 1 1 4 7 Cliff Lee Philadelphia Phillies - -...

A boatload of postseason awards

Brew Crew Ball (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Because I've been away for a few days I've fallen behind on a couple of things, including the unveiling of the SBN and IBWAA postseason awards. My apologies. Let's start with the SBN Awards: If you read any of the other SBN baseball sites, you may have seen some of these, but if you don't, they're new to you. Two BCB writers contributed to each of the NL awards: I had one vote, and TheJay had the other....

SBN Postseason Baseball Awards -- National League Cy Young Award

The Good Phight (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

More photos » by Matt Slocum - AP Both reigning 2008 Cy Young Award winners appeared on the SBNation NL Cy Young Award ballot. How did Cliff Lee fare? (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) Browse more photos » The next round of awards has been released. Who wins the SBNation Cy Young Award in the National League? After the jump... Congratulations to Tim Lincecum , who received either a first or...

SBN Awards: NL Cy Young

McCovey Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

Rk Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd Pts 1 Tim Lincecum San Francisco Giants 18 13 - 129 2 Chris Carpenter St. Louis Cardinals 9 4 7 64 3 Adam Wainwright St. Louis Cardinals 4 4 10 42 4 Javier Vazquez Atlanta Braves - 5 7 22 5 Dan Haren Arizona Diamondbacks - 3 4 13 6 Ubaldo Jimenez Colorado Rockies - 1 1 4 7 Cliff Lee Philadelphia Phillies - - 1 1 8 Jair Jurrjens Atlanta Braves - - 1 1 My vote: Brad Penny ,...

Lincecum wins NL Cy Young second year in a row

botond7f3iw | yesterday

NEW YORK (Reuters) –Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants claimed the National League Cy Young Award for the second successive year Thursday, winning in a close vote over Cardinals starters Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright. Lincecum, 15-7 with a 2.48 earned run average for the Giants, received fewer first-place votes than St Louis starter Wainwright in the balloting of members of the Baseball...