Any active member of the BBWAA is eligible to vote for annual awards, regardless of his or her number of years in the organization. Some Honorary members may also vote. Some news outlets, like the Los Angeles Times and New York Times, have policies prohibiting their writers from voting because of a perceived conflict of interest.
Beat writers may be asked to vote for two or even three awards, especially in chapters with fewer voters. Writers in two-team markets may even vote for awards in both leagues. Most writers vote for just one award each year. For MVP, there are 10 spots on the ballot.
For Cy Young, there are five. A writer may not split a spot on the ballot between two candidates. For all awards, there is a point system that is weighted by the spot on the ballot. For the MVP, a first-place vote is worth 14 points. From second to 10 th , the ballot spots are worth points, respectively. For the Cy Young, the points are Prior to that, voting information was provided, upon request, to members, and published on the web site in cases of high interest, like the AL Cy Young and AL MVP.
You can also search public ballots by the name of the writer using our voter database. The finalists, typically revealed about a week before the announcements of the winners, are merely the candidates who finished in the top three spots in the voting. They are not the only candidates who were eligible for the awards. There seems to always be a debate about the definition of the MVP.
What does the ballot say? There is no clear-cut definition of what Most Valuable means. It is up to the individual voter to decide who was the Most Valuable Player in each league to his team. The MVP need not come from a division winner or other playoff qualifier.
You are also urged to give serious consideration to all your selections, from 1 to For most of the final two months, that favored Verlander, sometimes heavily, and I was ready to roll with that. In most every stat, Verlander and Cole were either or close enough to it that the difference was negligible. The real difference came down to a few key categories.
But for the first time, I also added a couple Statcast categories this year try to measure the quality of the pitches. Cole finished first among qualified AL pitchers in both expected slugging percentage and expected weighted on-base average. That was enough to push Cole past Verlander. This one was agonizingly close, and the picture was no clearer when Gerrit Cole walked off the mound after his final outing on the last game of the regular season.
Justin Verlander or Cole? Cole or Verlander? Normally, I'd look at WHIP first, followed by strikeouts per nine innings and then overall strikeout totals. There was virtually no difference between Verlander and Cole in any relevant category.
So I let Verlander's no-hitter against the Blue Jays be the tiebreaker, and he received my first-place vote. Next was Cole, of course, followed by Charlie Morton, without whom the Rays would have been swallowed up in the Wild Card race. But Shane Bieber, my No. Lucas Giolito, who had a breakout season for the struggling White Sox, rounded out my top five. Verlander was more consistent over the course of the entire season. That being said, Verlander hit few road bumps this year and often pitched with poor run support.
Sure, he led the Majors in wins, but his 0. Statistically, their differences are minute. Cole had the slight edge in ERA and strikeouts. Verlander had the edge in WHIP and innings pitched. I have never put much stock in pitchers wins, but that was almost identical, too. I would have liked to give Verlander and Cole two first-place votes, then skip right to third place, but alas. Verlander's historic 0. Verlander's no-hitter served as a tiebreaker, but to be honest, I hoped Cole and Verlander somehow split the vote and could share the award.
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