Manager Of The Year
National League: Dave Roberts, Los Angeles Dodgers
American League: Terry Francona, Cleveland Indians
Roberts walked away with 108 votes, including 16 first place votes. Talk about a good year for a first year manager. He leads the Dodgers to an NL West crown, their 4th straight NL West title. He won Manager of the year and The Sporting News' National League Manager of the Year. The last Dodger to win the BBWAA Manager of the Year award was Hall of Famer Tom Lasorda, who did it in 1983 and 1988. Roberts also is the first rookie Dodgers manager to win a division title since Lasorda in 1977. Los Angeles took on a rough go of it this year, being hit by a ton of injuries. During the course of the year, the Dodgers put 28 players on the disabled list, including ace Clayton Kershaw, the most in at least the last 30 years. The 30 victories by rookies were the most for the club since 1952. When you have as many injuries as the Dodgers did and they still managed to win the West, that's due to impressive coaching. Dave Roberts did just that. Other managers receiving votes: Joe Maddon of the Cubs (70 total), Dusty Baker of the Nationals (66 total), Terry Collins of the Mets (24 total), and Don Mattingly of the Marlins (2 votes).
Terry Francona collected 128 total votes, including 22 first places votes, to become AL Manager of the Year. Francona took home Manager of the Year honor for the 2nd time in his career and the 2nd time in four years in Cleveland. Winning those two awards makes him the eighth multiple-time winner since the award began in 1983. Francona won the award in 2013, his first season in Cleveland. The only other Indians manager to ever win was Eric Wedge in 2007. And why shouldn't he have won the award, he lead the Indians to a division title for the first time since 2007 and a 90+ win season for the first time since 2013. Oh yeah, and he managed to do this with a team that had its own share of injuries. Not quite what Dave Roberts had to deal with in Los Angeles, but still he had a few key players like Michael Brantley, Yan Gomes, Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar all missing time with injuries. Other American League Managers receiving votes: Jeff Banister of the Rangers (64 total), Buck Showalter of the Orioles (44 total), John Farrell of the Red Sox (28 total), Joe Girardi of the Yankees (5 total) and Scott Servais of the Mariners (1 total).
Rookie Of The Year
National League: Corey Seager, Los Angeles Dodgers
American League: Michael Fulmer, Detroit Tigers
Corey Seager of the Dodgers takes home the NL Rookie of the Year in a unanimous vote, finishing the year with a .308 batting average, clubbing 26 home runs and 72 runs batted in. Seager is the 17th winner of the award to play for the Los Angeles Dodgers (a record). He's the first Dodgers shortstop to win it and their first winner since Todd Hollandsworth in 1996. He's the first shortstop to win the ROY award since Hanley RamÃrez won it in 2006. Seager is the third unanimous Dodgers Rookie of the Year, joining Raul Mondesi and Mike Piazza, who won it back to back in 1993-94. Seager put up otstanding hitting and power numbers, his 72 RBI's were the 4th most in the NL by any shortstop, he had the best batting average among shortstops and hit more home runs among shortstops except for Trevor Story. It was by far the best numbers in the league that any rookie had put up. Other NL players to receive votes: Trea Turner of the Nationals (42 total), Kenta Maeda of the Dodgers (37 total), Trevor Story of the Rockies (24 total), Aledmys Diaz of the Cardinals (14 total), Jon Gray of the Rockies (1 total), Steven Matz of the Mets (1 total0, and Seung-hwan Oh of the Cardinals (1 total).
Michael Fulmer of the Tigers took home the top rookie award in the American League, collecting 142 total points, including 26 first place votes. Fulmer is the Tigers' fifth Rookie of the Year, joining Verlander, Lou Whitaker in 1978, Mark Fidrych in 1976 and Harvey Kuenn in 1953. As the year went on, Fulmer really started to blossom into a fantastic pitcher, which is something that the Detroit Tigers are known for getting and developing. Fulmer delivered a 33-inning scoreless streak from late May into June, and he gave up one run or none in eight consecutive starts. Detroit won seven of those outings, three of them when scoring four runs or fewer. The Tigers won six one-run games with Fulmer on the mound. Those numbers are a big reason why the Tigers were able to hang around in the AL Central race for most of the year. Other AL players to receive votes: Gary Sanchez of the Yankees (91 total), Tyler Naquin of the Indians (20 total), Chris Devenski of the Astros (7 total), Edwin Diaz of the Mariners (4 total), Nomar Mazara of the Rangers (4 total), and Tim Anderson of the White Sox (2 total).
Cy Young
National League: Max Scherzer, Washington Nationals
American League: Rick Porcello, Boston Red Sox
Scherzer took 25 first place votes and 192 votes overall to claim the NL Cy Young award. And why not. He went 20-7 with a 2.96 ERA and 284 strikeouts. This is the second career Cy Young Award for Scherzer, who also won in 2013 while pitching for the Tigers. He became just the sixth pitcher in baseball history to win the award in both leagues, joining Gaylord Perry, Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens and Roy Halladay. Scherzer led the Majors with 284 strikeouts, including tying a Major League record for a nine-inning game with 20 strikeouts against the Tigers on May 11. He averaged 11.2 strikeouts per nine innings and posted the best strikeout-to-walk ratio in the NL at 5.07. Max may not have had the lowest ERA in the league, but he had a much higher WAR then most other pitchers in the league this year. Mad Max has now started to really pull it all together and given the Nationals every penny's worth of that huge contract they gave him. Other pitchers receiving votes in the NL: Jon Lester of the Cubs (102 total), Kyle Hendricks of the Cubs (85 total), Madison Bumgarner of the Giants (46 total), Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers (30 total), Johnny Cueto of the Giants (19 total), Jose Fernandez of the Marlins (18 total), Noah Syndergaard of the Mets (15 total), Jake Arrieta of the Cubs (2 total) and Tanner Roark of the Nationals (1 total).
American League Cy Young voting was dead close between Porcello and Justin Verlander of the Tigers. The five point difference was the 2nd closest race in history, but in the end, Porcello gets the nod and wins the Cy Young award. Porcello went 22-4 with a 3.15 ERA and 189 strikeouts. Porcello joins Jim Lonborg (1967), Roger Clemens ('86, '87, '91) and Pedro Martinez ('99, 2000) as the only Red Sox pitchers to win a Cy Young Award. This marks just the third time a Cy Young Award winner did not have the most first-place votes. It also happened for Atlanta's Tom Glavine in 1998 and San Francisco's Tim Lincecum in 2009. In 27 of his 33 starts, Porcello allowed three earned runs or fewer. In nearly half of his starts, 16 to be exact, he allowed two earned runs or fewer. And on nine occasions, Porcello gave up one earned run or fewer. Durability was another separator for Porcello. There were just three starts when Porcello went fewer than six innings, and he didn't go fewer than five in any of those. Justin Verlander did have the better numbers, except in the wins department. It probably should have gone to Verlander, but because one baseball writer submitted his Cy Young votes a week early, it cost Verlander the award. Other AL pitchers receiving votes: Justin Verlander of Tigers (14 1st place votes, 132 total), Corey Kluber of the Indians (98 total), Zach Britton of the Orioles (72 total), Chris Sale of the White Sox (40 total), J.A. Happ of the Blue Jays (14 total), Aaron Sanchez of the Blue Jays (6 total), Masahiro Tanaka of the Yankees (6 total), Andrew Miller of the Indians (3 total), Michael Fulmer of the Tigers (1 total), and Jose Quintana of the White Sox (1 total).
Most Valuable Player
National League: Kris Bryant, Chicago Cubs
American League: Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Talk about a year to remember if your Kris Bryant. Her's coming off winning Rookie of the Year in the National League last year. Now this year he helps lead the Cubs to the best record in baseball, wins the World Series and now claims the MVP award. He also finished the year hittin .292 with 39 home runs and 102 runs batted in. Twenty players have won the top rookie honors and been named MVP, but Bryant joins Dustin Pedroia (2007-08), Ryan Howard (2005-06) and Cal Ripken Jr. (1982-83) as the only players to win the awards in back-to-back seasons. A Cubs player has won the award 10 times, including twice by Hall of Famer Ernie Banks. Sammy Sosa had been the last to do so in 1998. He led the NL in runs scored, ranked third in homers, was fourth with a .939 OPS and a .554 slugging percentage, and sixth in RBIs. He was the only player in the Majors with at least 35 homers, 35 doubles, 100 RBIs, 100 runs scored and 75 walks. Talk about prolific numbers. Bryant was a giant reason why the Cubs had as great a year as they did. Don't get me wrong, Anthony Rizzo was also a big part of that season the Cubs had, but I think Bryant's overall game and numbers were better and had a greater impact on the team then Rizzo. Other players to gain MVP votes: Daniel Murphy of the Nationals (245 total), Corey Seager of the Dodgers (240 total), Anthony Rizzo of the Cubs (202 total), Nolan Arenado of the Rockies (199 total), Freddie Freeman of the Braves (129 total), Joey Votto of the Reds (100 total), Yoenis Cespedes of the Mets (45 total), Justin Turner of the Dodgers (44 total), Max Scherzer of the Nationals (39 total), Paul Goldschmidt of the Diamondbacks (18 total), Brandon Crawford of the Giants (15 total) Jean Segura of the Diamondbacks (14 total), Buster Posey of the Giants (11 total), DJ LeMahieu of the Rockies (8 total), Madison Bumgarner of the Giants (7 total), Jeurys Familia of the Mets (6 total), Wilson Ramos of the Nationals (6 total), Addison Russell of the Cubs (5 total), Noah Syndergaard of the Mets (5 total), Christian Yelich of the Marlins (5 total), Yasmani Grandal of the Dodgers (4 total), Kyle Hendricks of the Cubs (2 total), Ryan Braun of the Brewers (2 total), Yadier Molina, Cardinals (2 total), Charlie Blackmon of the Rockies (1 total) and Johnny Cueto of the Giants (1 total)
Mike Trout walked away with AL MVP, despite the fact that the Angels had a bad year in the AL West this year. Trout finished the year hitting .315 with 29 home runs (lowest full season total of his career) and 100 runs batted in. Trout made history on his way to his second AL MVP Award since 2014. He's the first player to finish in the top two in MVP voting in each of his first five full seasons in the Major Leagues. Trout also joined Barry Bonds as the only players in baseball history to finish in the top two in MVP voting in five straight years. Trout, a five-time All-Star who also won the AL Rookie of the Year prize in 2012, is now the sixth player to win two MVPs before his age-25 season, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, along with Johnny Bench, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial and Hal Newhouser. Trout hit .315 with 32 doubles, five triples, 29 home runs, 100 RBIs and 30 stolen bases. He led the Majors in runs (123), walks (116) and on-base percentage (.441), while his .991 OPS ranked second in the AL. Trout was fourth in the AL with a .550 slugging percentage, and he tied for second in steals (Altuve and the Royals' Jarrod Dyson also had 30). He also had a better WAR then any other player in the AL. Sure the Angels missed the playoffs, but Trout is further establishing himself as the best overall player in the sport. Other players receiving votes: Mookie Betts of the Red Sox (311 total), Jose Altuve of the Astros (227 total), Josh Donaldson of the Blue Jays (200 total), Manny Machado of the Orioles (150 total), David Ortiz of the Red Sox (147 total), Adrian Beltre of the Rangers (135 total), Robinson Cano of the Mariners (79 total), Francisco Lindor of the Indians (56 total), Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers (56 total), Zach Britton of the Orioles (11 total), Kyle Seager of the Mariners (10 total), Brian Dozier of the Twins (9 total), Edwin Encarnacion of the Blue Jays (7 total), Nelson Cruz of the Mariners (6 total), Chris Sale of the White Sox (3 total), Jose Ramirez of the Indians (2 total), Justin Verlander of the Tigers (2 total), Adam Eaton of the White Sox (1 total), Corey Kluber of the Indians (1 total) and Evan Longoria of the Rays (1 total)
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