Post by Tigers GM (Max) on Oct 3, 2019 12:17:11 GMT -6
Congrats to our 2019 League Award winners! As always, it is a point based system (5 pts for 1st place, 4 pts for 2nd place, etc.; 3 pts for 1st for ROY and GMOY) where 1st place votes are the tiebreaker.
Some notes:
-- For the second time in league history, we have a shared GMOY. Congrats to Phil and Derek on their huge seasons!
-- For the first time in league history, a team has won a full share of the MVP and Cy Young. In 2017, DET had a full MVP (G.Stanton) and co-CY winner (C.Kluber, shared with C.Sale); this year, Miami has the first ever full MVP and full CY in the same season
-- Miami also claimed back to back CY awards (T.Bauer, 2018) meaning that the NL Cy Young has been won by 3 franchises in 6 seasons (LAD twice, ARZ twice, MIA twice)
-- Christian Yelich is the first ever unanimous award winner for something besides ROY
-- Texas became the first team ever with consecutive ROY awards (R.Acuna, 2018) and joins DET, PIT, and WAS as teams with multiple ROY winners
-- Through six seasons and seven winners (each with a shared winner one year), the AL GMOY and NL MVP are the only awards with no franchises having repeat winners
-- Zack Greinke (2015, 2019) joins Clayton Kershaw (2014, 2015) and Max Scherzer (2016, 2018) as the only two-time Cy Young award winners; Greinke is the first to win both in the same league
-- Cody Bellinger is the second ROY winner (2017) to go on to win an MVP or Cy Young award, joining Aaron Judge (MVP 2017, ROY 2017)
-- With two hitters once again winning the ROY awards, Noah Syndergaard (2015) remains the only pitcher to ever win the award in either league
Some notes:
-- For the second time in league history, we have a shared GMOY. Congrats to Phil and Derek on their huge seasons!
-- For the first time in league history, a team has won a full share of the MVP and Cy Young. In 2017, DET had a full MVP (G.Stanton) and co-CY winner (C.Kluber, shared with C.Sale); this year, Miami has the first ever full MVP and full CY in the same season
-- Miami also claimed back to back CY awards (T.Bauer, 2018) meaning that the NL Cy Young has been won by 3 franchises in 6 seasons (LAD twice, ARZ twice, MIA twice)
-- Christian Yelich is the first ever unanimous award winner for something besides ROY
-- Texas became the first team ever with consecutive ROY awards (R.Acuna, 2018) and joins DET, PIT, and WAS as teams with multiple ROY winners
-- Through six seasons and seven winners (each with a shared winner one year), the AL GMOY and NL MVP are the only awards with no franchises having repeat winners
-- Zack Greinke (2015, 2019) joins Clayton Kershaw (2014, 2015) and Max Scherzer (2016, 2018) as the only two-time Cy Young award winners; Greinke is the first to win both in the same league
-- Cody Bellinger is the second ROY winner (2017) to go on to win an MVP or Cy Young award, joining Aaron Judge (MVP 2017, ROY 2017)
-- With two hitters once again winning the ROY awards, Noah Syndergaard (2015) remains the only pitcher to ever win the award in either league