Sunday, September 02, 2007

August Awards

This week I will do my August awards. These are the awards that would be given if the season ended today.

Rangers Awards:

Rangers MVP: Marlon Byrd: .310 AVG., 7 HR, 56 RBI: Since Marlon has come up he has surpassed most Ranger players’ RBI totals and batting averages.
Runner-up: Michael Young

Rangers CY Young: CJ Wilson: 2.52 ERA, 58 K, 2-1, 9 SV: CJ has had an incredible year and has put himself in position to be the closer next year.
Runner-up: Joaquin Benoit

Rangers Rookie of the Year: Jarrod Saltalamacchia: .275 AVG, 9 HR, 27 RBI
Runner-up: David Murphy

AL Awards:

AL MVP: A-ROD: .308 AVG, 45 HR, 129 RBI
Runner-up: Magglio Ordonez

AL Cy Young: Josh Beckett: 3.29 ERA, 158 K, 16-6
Runner-up: John Lackey

AL Rookie of the Year: Dustin Pedrioa: .322 AVG, 6 HR, 42 RBI
Runner-up: Hideki Okajima

AL Manager of the Year: Eric Wedge Cleveland Indians 78-57
Runner-up: Mike Scioscia

NL Awards:

NL MVP: Matt Holliday: .336 AVG, 24 HR, 106 RBI
Runner-up: Ryan Howard

NL Cy Young: Brandon Webb: 2.83 ERA, 170 K, 14-9
Runner-up: Jake Peavy

NL Rookie of the Year: Ryan Braun: .325 AVG, 25 HR 68 RBI, 13 SB
Runner-up: Chris Young ARI

NL Manager of the Year: Bob Melvin Arizona Diamondbacks 76-61
Runner-up: Clint Hurdle

Results of last week’s poll:
Who do you think was the best player that the Rangers acquired in 1997?
Rick Helling – 55%
Aaron Sele – 37%
Tom Goodwin – 5%
Jim Leyritz – 3%
Everybody else – 0%

Come back next week for part 4 of the Doug Melvin trade analysis.

4 comments:

Reid Report said...

I have to agree with you that Matt Holliday does deserve to be the NL MVP.

Ken Pittman said...

I have to love the fact that the Rangers top two rookies were just traded for. And who would have predicted Marlon Byrd to be the Rangers MVP?

GO RANGERS!
Ken

kim becherer said...

I have a baseball bat signed by
33 or 34 of the team players
from the 1977 team.My dad was
a good friend of Jim Sundberg
in Galesburg IL.I WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW MORE ABOUT IT.IF ANY ONE
HAS INFORMATIOM ABOUT IT PLEASE EMAIL
ME AT bechererk@aol.com

kim becherer said...

kim becherer said...

I have a baseball bat signed by
33 or 34 of the team players
from the 1977 team.My dad was
a good friend of Jim Sundberg
in Galesburg IL.I WOULD LIKE TO
KNOW MORE ABOUT IT.IF ANY ONE
HAS INFORMATIOM ABOUT IT PLEASE EMAIL ME AT bechererk@aol.com