As a team, the ITM writers are not ready to post about the ending of the Red Sox season. We've sent along multiple emails, confirmed that we've all gone back to work and are continuing our somewhat normal lives, but any Red Sox related post out of us at this point would still be completely irrational and full of anger.
That said, as a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, ITM, along with fellow Red Sox bloggers The Joy of Sox and Boston Red Thoughts, have been asked to submit their ballots for seasonal awards. Once tallied, the results will be made public via a press release sometime in the next few weeks.
We here at ITM see this as a way to ease back into the world of baseball talk. Nothing specific, just a little list to show our ballot for the AL Rookie of the Year award:
This year's talent pool for the award was somewhat shallow, but ITM's ballot reads as follows:
1- Andrew Bailey - Oakland's new studly closer shut down 26 games out West for the A's. His 1.84 era, sub 1 WHIP, and 91 strikeouts in 83.1 innings pitched wraps up the award for him in our mind.
2- Rick Porcello - Got 14 wins at the tender age of 20 for a Tigers team that completely imploded down the stretch. His upside is huge, but at times this year he struggled to find consistency. He got extra points for being on my fantasy team.
3- Jeff Niemann - Two or three months ago I would have said Ricky Romero needs to be on this list, but the fact of the matter is Romero faded significantly down the stretch while Niemann got stronger. Niemann figures to a part of the forever young Rays rotation for a long time to come.
....Go.....Sox....?
Thursday, October 15
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4 comments:
No mention of Daniel Bard? Lame.
Bard has huge talent, but he didn't come close to these guys in overall performance sustained over a significant time period.
Porcello gets extra points, also, for holding his own against a crazed Youkilis.
I may be a crazed red sox fan, but I'm not that much of a homer to take votes away from those three deserving guys to forced D Bard in there.
I'm one of Bard's biggest fans, he'll get his fair share of publicity in the future.
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