This is the fourth AL voting period after six seven in the books. The MLB Blog Poll votes on the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of Year candidates in each league throughout the regular baseball season. In doing so, you get a cumulative snapshot of the award winners, instead of the single vote. That way we get constant feedback as the year goes on.
American League Most Valuable Player Vote Week #7
- Josh Hamilton - 285 points
- Kevin Youkilis - 167 points
- Carlos Quentin - 160 points
The player ranked first on a ballot is assigned 14 points, the player ranked second is assigned 9 points, and the player ranked third is assigned 8 points. Click to see the actual votes.
American League Cy Young Vote Week #7
- Cliff Lee - 122 points
- Daisuke Matsuzaka - 48 points
- Zach Grienke - 29 points
The player ranked first on a ballot is assigned 5 points, the player ranked second is assigned 3 points, and the player ranked third is assigned 1 point. Click to see the actual votes.
American League Rookie of the Year Vote Week #7
- Jacoby Ellsbury - 89 points
- David Murphy - 70 points
- Greg Smith- 46 points
The player ranked first on a ballot is assigned 5 points, the player ranked second is assigned 3 points, and the player ranked third is assigned 1 point. Click to see the actual votes.
The following blogs contributed to the Blog Poll results:
Baseball Digest Daily
Baseball Happenings
Baseball Musings
Seth Speaks
Fire Brand of American League
Brock For Broglio
Brew Crew Ball
Beyond The Boxscore
Fake Teams
RotoRob
Over the Monster
No Bias Baseball
Outs Per Swing
Bugs & Cranks
Talking Chop
Roto Junkie
Baseball Time In Arlington
CardinalsDiaspora
Tiger Tales
Kranepool Society
Cubs F/X
Roto Advice
Chicago Cubs Online
Baseball Legends
Roto Professor
DRays Bay
DisabledListInformer
[...] Happenings has posted the Week 7 results of the bloggers vote for AL MVP, CY, and ROY. Thank you to David Bloom for having me as one of the voters. This was written by Fantasy Sports [...]
Hard to take this very seriously when you have people making votes like Matsuzaka and Shields over Lee for CY, and Barton over Murphy for ROY.
Jon,
You’d be surprised how closely this mimics real life voting. Have you ever looked at the breakdown of the actual award voting?
How does Joe Saunders not get in the top 3 Cy candidates?
What is obvious so far in the voting, there is a degree of home flavor. Just like the broadcasters, to the newspapers, to the advertising in the real world, where YOUR guy is lighting it up you will take notice and reward that player. Thus, there is some bias here, just like in the real voting. Something like an East coast bias, where Holliday did not the MVP , where Rollins did where it was clear he deserved it.