wtf, we didn't have a first half awards thread?

AL

MVP
Josh Hamilton

Cy Young
Cliff Lee

Rookie
Evan Longoria

Manager
Ozzie Guillen


NL

MVP
Chase Ultey

Cy Young
Dan Haren

Manager
...Piniella?

Rookie
Soto

MVP-Hammy
CYer- MO
Rookie-Longo

MVP-Utley
CYer- Webs
Rookie-soto'

MVP-Drew
CYer- Lee
Rookie-Longoria

MVP-Berkman
CYer-Haren
Rookie-Parra

AL

MVP: Hamilton
Cy: Halladay
ROY: Longoria

NL

MVP: Berkman
Cy: Volquez
ROY: Soto

AL MVP: Hamilton
AL Cy Young: Mariano
AL ROY: Longoria

NL MVP: Utley
NL Cy Young: Volquez
NL ROY: Soto

AL:

MVP: Josh Hamilton
CY: Cliff Lee
ROY: Longoria

NL:

MVP: Lance Berkman
CY: Edison Volquez
ROY: Giovanny Soto

People who have Mo as the Cy Young winner, Roy Halladay has pitched 9 inning saves 6-7 times this year.

If mo finishes the year with an ERA under 1, I can't fathom a world where he wouldn't get it, unless somoene gets 20 wins or more.

lol @ mo cy

Not as bad as Drew over Hamilton.

Unless a closer pitches like 80+ innings, and is perfect with like 65-70 saves and has like an ERA of 0.52 with other dominant numbers and there isn't a clearcut Cy Young winner in the league, then I'd give it to the reliever.

not in line to make the playoffs means no MVP for me and JD has the higher OPS anyway

Eric Gagne was like 55-for-55 with disgusting splits and he won the Cy Young. If you're a closer and you're not over like 95% conversions, you don't deserve to be mentioned in Cy Young talks.

At this point it's Lee or Halladay in the AL imo.

Mo's perfect in saves, if Joe stopped using him in NSO he'd have literally unhuman numbers.

If he gets to 40 perfect saves and keeps these splits I'd give it to him, but I doubt that happens.

AL:
MVP: Josh Hamilton
Cy Young: Roy Halladay
ROY: Evan Longoria

NL:
MVP: Hanley Ramirez
Cy Young: Edison Volquez
ROY: Geovany Soto

And I'm pretty sure(feel frree to correct me I may happen to be somewhat wrong about this statement that I'm going to make after I stop typing this)......

But there wasn't really any great starters in 2003 to deserve a Cy anyhow.

If Mo gets in the Cy Young talk so will K-Rod, who will probably have at least 60 saves.

4 starters with 17+ wins
2 of which were top 3 in era
and 2 of which were top 5 in K;s.

Prior and Schmidt were the only 2 in all 3 categoies.

Papelbon wasn't even in Cy Young discussions after his 2006 performance. (.92 ERA) There's no way Mo should get one.

I'd only give it to a reliever if they pitched over 100 innings and had an ERA under 1, with other dominant K numbers. And there's no deserving starter. I don't care what role it is either, it could even be a set up man, saves are retarded.

AL:
MVP: Josh Hamilton
CY: Roy Halladay
ROY: Evan Longoria

NL:
MVP: Lance Berkman
CY: Edison Volquez
ROY: Giovanny Soto

Yeah I agree, the Cy Young should always go to a starter unless there is ridiculous circumstances.

Oh, and K-Rod getting mentioned for Cy Young because he might get 60 saves is laughable. Have you seen his peripheral stats? They're pretty bad. You shouldn't be given an award because your team wins like 70 close games and close 60 of them.

3 pages pass and all I can gather from this thread is the collective cock sucking of halladay, mo and cliff lee when none of them are as deserving up to this point as justin duchscherer. his ERA clearly won't stay under 2 but if the thread is to appoint awards based on the first half of the season then I don't see how you could pick anyone else

oh and for the notion that mo should win cy young...hilarious stuff THU. he wouldn't even grace your top 10 if he was wearing something other than those pinstripes and that pretty NYY cap.

no dead people in sigs imo

see the movie and not only will you want to place him in every sig possible you will be getting his face tattooed onto your ass.

his joker is legendary

Undoubtedly the best pitcher in the game right now.

There willl never be a better villian.

Hugo Weaving as the Riddler would be awesome though.

I so want so see that damn movie!

I got into this a little late, but..

AL MVP: Ian Kinsler, I guess. Josh Hamilton is a top 6 player in the AL right now, but his RBI numbers are bringing him a lot more attention than he should be getting. Look at the guys hitting in front of him. A replacement player would have like 55 RBI in that spot. I totally made that number up. Alex Rodriguez is about 100 PA's from being the easy choice.

AL Cy Young: Roy Halladay. I just don't like weird seasons like the one Cliff Lee is having right now, and Halladay has been nearly as good as Duchscherer, but for like, 40 more innings.

AL RoY: Evan Longoria.

NL MVP: Lance Berkman. Offense in the NL is awesome. Any of Chipper, Pujols, Hanley, Utley, and probably other people I'm forgetting would be the best hitter in the AL right now if they were in that league. That's hypothetical and weird though. Anyway, Berkman is awesome.

NL Cy Young: Tim Linecum. Volquez and Sheets are good people, but Tim Lincecum is awesome people. I just like him going forward, and he K's a lot of people, and his back does weird things in his delivery, and his teeth are funny to look at. With all three guys being so close in comparison, I think those things are fair points of judgement.

NL RoY: Geovany Soto. His VORP is twice as high as any other NL rookie's. And he shares a name with one of the big boss guys on the original Pokemon Red/Blue games.

Nice Pokemon reference there at the end.

AL MVP: Hamilton
AL Cy Young: Halladay's 7 CG's sticks out to me.
AL ROY: Evan Longoria

NL MVP: Utley
NL Cy Young: Tim Lincecum
NL ROY: Soto

Bahahaha

I beat him with a Pokémon named

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Gotta catch em all

I would have Kinsler, Sizemore, or A-Rod over Hamilton for AL MVP. but I don't think anyone has mentioned Sizemore or A-Rod.

As it is, he would probably be my third choice, behind Kinsler and Sizemore. I give Kinsler the slight nod because of position, but that's a pretty slim margin. They're both at prime defensive positions, but the offensive output coming from second jumps out a little more.