2011 SB Nation Baseball Awards: Jose Bautista Named AL MVP

by Marc Normandin on Nov 10, 2011 1:01 PM EST in SBNation Awards

Sorry, Red Sox fans, but three legitimate MVP candidates just wasn't enough to overcome the awesome that is Jose Bautista. Jacoby Ellsbury came very, very close, but he was the only one, as Dustin Pedroia finished sixth, while Adrian Gonzalez's highest vote was a fifth-place one.

Num	Name	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Total
1	Jose Bautista	10	9	2	2							211
2	Jacoby Ellsbury	7	9	3	3							196
3	Miguel Cabrera	2	1	6	5	4	4	2				164
4	Curtis Granderson	1	2	5	5	2	5			1	1	143
5	Justin Verlander	3	3	4	2	3	1		1		1	130
6	Dustin Pedroia			1	3	4	2	4	1	2		86
7	Ian Kinsler			1	2	2	4	2	3	1	1	74
8	Adrian Gonzalez					2	2	5	1	5	2	57
9	Evan Longoria			2		2		2	3	3		51
10	Alex Gordon					2	2	1	1	1	2	33
11	Robinson Cano	1				1		1	2	2	2	32
12	Alex Avila						2	1	1	3	2	25
13	CC Sabathia							3	3	1	1	24
14	Ben Zobrist							2	3	1	4	23
15	Adrian Beltre				1	1		1		2	2	23
16	Michael Young					1	1		1			14
17	Mike Napoli				1		1					12
18	Paul Konerko								2			6
19	Jered Weaver								1		1	4
20	Elvis Andrus								1			3
21	James Shields										2	2
22	David Ortiz									1		2
23	Victor Martinez									1		2
24	Brett Gardner										1	1
25	Dan Haren										1	1
26	Mark Texeira										1	1

Personally, I voted for Ellsbury as MVP, but my own ballot doesn't look very different from the actual top 10 results. It was a tight race, and either Ellsbury or Bautista were fine choices for the virtual hardware.

My favorite part of this might actually be that 26 different players received votes from 24 writers. The 2011 season had some pretty memorable campaigns from many players, and it's crazy to think that two points total for someone like James Shields feels both accurate and like nowhere near enough. It was very clear, though, looking at the distribution of first- and second-place votes, who the favorites were among SB Nation's American League bloggers, though.

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Robinson Cano got an actual first place vote?

I assume one of the same ~~xxxxxx~~ … fine gentlemen who voted Sabathia first in the CY vote?

And one can presume that the other guy gave his first place vote for Granderson?

How transparent.

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by mmmmm on Nov 10, 2011 1:10 PM EST reply actions

Must be the Yankee voters

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by Marisa Ingemi on Nov 10, 2011 1:11 PM EST up reply actions

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But it’s proooobably the same guy who gave Mark Teixeira an actual vote.

by South Coast Ghost on Nov 10, 2011 1:34 PM EST up reply actions

Cano

I’m pretty sure that was Joe Morgan’s vote.

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by Bloggy on Nov 10, 2011 2:28 PM EST up reply actions

What the hell is going on with the voting on these SB Nation Awards.

First someone thinks Kershaw is the 5th best pitcher in the NL.

Secondly each pitcher received a total of 28 votes. One would think the same totals would carry over to the MVP as you would think you have the same voters. Bautista had 23 votes, Ellsbury had 22, and Cabrera had 24. This means one person left Bautista off their ballot and two people left Ellsbury off theirs.

What the hell is going on here? The Florida voting process has more transparency than this.

by scapistron on Nov 10, 2011 1:37 PM EST reply actions

I find it disgusting that we have 3 top ten MVP candidates, including the runner up.

And because of a shitty beginning and ending to the season we missed the playoffs.

Fuck.

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by TheLoneDavid on Nov 10, 2011 5:44 PM EST up reply actions

Robinson Cano?

really? that person is either a blatant homer or just joking around. either way, I think that they should be stripped of their ballot going forward.

As someone else mentioned, what is with the discrepancy in ballot numbers? Two people really left Ells off of their top 10? Really? That’s two more (although I suspect that one of them was the joker who voted Cano #1) morons who need to be stripped of their ballot.

by BigBenSportsGuy on Nov 10, 2011 3:04 PM EST reply actions

Comparing this the the AL WAR List

1. Bautsita 8.3 (2nd)
2. Ellsbury 9.4 (1st)
3. Cabrera 7.3 (5th)
4. Granderson 7.0 (T7th)
5. Verlander 7.0 (T7th)
6. Pedroia 8.0 (3rd)
7. Kinsler 7.7 (4th)
8. Gonzalez 6.6 (T11th)
9. Longoria 6.1 (12th)
10. Gordon 6.9 (10th)

11. Cano 5.6 (T17th)
13. Sabathia 7.1 (6th)
26. Teixeira 4.2 (T w/Melky Cabrera)

Points
- Sabathia has the biggest gripe at least by WAR standards
- The list maker while including Tex, did not spell his name correctly so there!

by BobZupcic on Nov 10, 2011 3:42 PM EST reply actions