Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Dustin Pedroia wins American League Most Valuable Player award

In a scattered vote, Dustin Pedroia has won the American League's Most Value Player award.

This is the last of the 2008 baseball awards to be announced, and the Hot Stove League (referring to all the offseason trades and free agent shenanigans) is already in full swing. Stay tuned.

2 comments:

Zifnab said...

The whole method by which the awards are announced really leaves me flat. It's now November 18th, the last games were nearly 3 weeks ago, and baseball is way out of my mind. The staggered release of who won which award just makes it worse. Yay, today we get the ... AL Cy Young? Why am I waiting for this?

Maybe that's just me being cynical, but it'd be nice to have all the awards announced on one day, maybe a week after the WS finishes at most.

Also... Pedroia got AL MVP but one ballot didn't even have him on it? That probably speaks more to the cluelessness of the writer who turned in that ballot rather than anything about Pedroia, but still.

Mason said...

I agree that there's no need to wait this long. I think waiting, say, a week or a few days after the end of the World Series is fine just so baseball can be in the news more often. (Doing it earlier than that probably wouldn't be optimal for their publicity.) But then announce everything and be done with it. They aren't actually helping themselves in any way by doing this.

Baseball is still definitely on my mind, but the extent to which it is wouldn't be changed if the awards were earlier (and hence at a more reasonable time).

Oh, there are plenty of clueless writers out there. Take a look in both leagues at some of the names that found their way onto ballots.

Pedroia wouldn't have been my top pick, but he clearly needs to be in a good spot on the ballot.