Cardinal Blogger Awards
Here’s my ballot for the 2009 Cardinal Blogger Awards. The nominees can be found here, and the home for the United Cardinal Bloggers can be found here.
1. Cardinal Player of the Year: Albert Pujols
2. Cardinal Pitcher of the Year: Adam Wainwright (I value the innings and starts a lot; if I had a Cy Young ballot it would have gone Lincecum-Wainwright-Carpenter)
3. Game of the Year: Sept. 26 at COL
4. Surprise Player of the Year: Joel Pineiro (write-in)
5. Disappointing Player of the Year: Rick Ankiel
6. Cardinal Rookie of the Year: Colby Rasmus
7. Offseason Acquisition of the Year: Trever Miller
8. Midseason Acquisition of the Year: Matt Holliday
9. Most Anticipated Cardinal: Shelby Miller (not nec. my top prospect, but certainly the guy I most anticipate seeing)
10. Best Individual Blog: Fungoes
11. Best Team Blog: Viva El Birdos
12. Best Media Blog: Bird Land
13. Best UCB Project: Top 7 Prospects
-M.
Matthew Leach
You would have voted for Lincecum? That really devalues your opinions for me now. I know, he won, but I don’t agree with the criteria used for picking him. Not even the Bay Area voters picked him for 1st. I expected better from you.
Cut Matthew some slack here, eech. We justly mock sports writers and (particularly) fans in other cities for making or advocating “homer” votes. Giving Matthew a hard time for not making one is inconsistent. Lincecum was a thoroughly deserving candidate for the CY and, by many metrics, had the best case of the three reasonable contenders.
I can’t argue with those three in ANY order. My jaw drops and eyebrows raise that those weren’t THE names on ALL the ballots. <_< … I have no interest in starting THAT debate starting again; just saying, that yeah, those three were the best pitchers in the NL this year.