Every season, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) polls it’s membership to cast a ballot for the players eligible for Hall Of Fame induction. Following the same rules as the official vote cast by the Baseball Writers Association, a player must receive votes on at least 75% of the ballots in order to be recommended for [...]

Well, Ben Cherington had a nice start to the 2012 Winter Meetings, which started today in Nashville, signing C/1B Mike Napoli to a 3-year, $39 million deal. A career .259 hitter, his swing is built for Fenway, where he has hit .307 as a member of the Rangers and the Angels… This deal makes things [...]

The Baseball Bloggers Alliance’s (BBA) final award of 2012, the Stan Musial Award, is given every year to the premier player in each league. In what proved to be the easier of the two decisions, the Alliance pulled together to award Buster Posey for his stellar season leading the San Francisco Giants to an eventual [...]

As we near the end of the 2012 award presentations for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA), the Walter Johnson Award honors the pitcher in each league that excelled far beyond anyone else. This year’s vote was not unanimous like last season’s, but it was a decision that many of the group could still agree on. [...]

The BBA‘s 3rd postseason award is the Goose Gossage Award,which honors the best relief pitchers in Major League Baseball. This year’s selections were an easy decision for the membership and, for the first, time they honored a player for a second consecutive year in the same category. In 2011, Atlanta Braves closer Craig Kimbrel was [...]

Continuing their announcement of award winners for the 2012 season, The Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) named their choices of the top rookies in both leagues by awarding the Willie Mays Award. This year’s vote yielded the only unanimous decision in all five categories for the group. In the American League, Mike Trout was awarded the [...]