Eric Cyr, Internet Baseball Awards, and Mock Dispersal Draft
Wed, Oct 24, 2001
by Geoff Young
- Good writeup on Eric Cyr’s AFL experience
- I should have mentioned this earlier but the deadline for voting for the Internet Baseball Awards is today. I’ll post my entire vote tomorrow. For now, here are my top choices:
- AL ROY: Ichiro Suzuki. No-brainer
- NL ROY: Albert Pujols. No-brainer
- AL Cy Young: Freddy Garcia. Probably the toughest call among the awards; he, Mark Mulder, Mike Mussina, and Roger Clemens were neck-and-neck
- NL Cy Young: Randy Johnson. He and Curt Schilling were the only NL pitchers who got my vote for MVP (#4 and #6, respectively, IIRC)
- AL MVP: Roberto Alomar. Not to add fuel to the fire but if A-Rod had signed with the M’s, he’d have gotten my vote
- NL MVP: Barry Bonds. Some incredible seasons in the NL this year; guys like Lance Berkman and Phil Nevin didn’t even make my top 10
- Finally, for your continued amusement (and even though we all know contraction won’t really happen), here is how the mock dispersal draft is going over at Baseball Primer.
- Pittsburgh - Vladimir Guerrero, OF, Mtl
- Tampa Bay - Josh Beckett, RHP, Fla
- Baltimore - Javier Vazquez, RHP, Mtl
- Kansas City - Jose Vidro, 2B, Mtl
- Cincinnati - Adrian Gonzalez, 1B, Fla
- Detroit - Tony Armas, RHP, Mtl
- Milwaukee - Brad Penny, RHP, Fla
- Colorado - Luis Castillo, 2B, Fla
- Texas - Ryan Dempster, RHP, Fla
- Anaheim - Cliff Floyd, LF, Fla
- San Diego - A.J. Burnett, RHP, Fla
- Toronto - Fernando Tatis, 3B, Mtl
- New York Mets - Preston Wilson, CF, Fla
- Boston - Vladimir Nunez, RHP, Fla
- Chicago White Sox - Brad Wilkerson, LF, Mtl
- Minnesota - Tomo Ohka, RHP, Mtl
- Philadelphia - Kevin Olsen, RHP, Fla
- Los Angeles - Carl Pavano, RHP, Mtl
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