Craig Kimbrel of the Atlanta Braves easily won the Baseball Bloggers Alliance’s Willie Mays Award for top rookie in the National League. The American League award, though, was a much different story. Kansas City first baseman Eric Hosmer and Tampa Bay pitcher Jeremy Hellickson both received 67 points in American League voting, creating the first [...]

The penultimate BBA Postseason Award, the Walter Johnson Award, is given to the best pitcher in each league, and was an easy choice for the Boston Chapter–and the one everyone seems to agree on… After the monster season he has in 2011, going 24-5 with a 2.40 ERA, which included 4 complete games, 2 shut [...]

Top Blogger Organization Awards Connie Mack Award For 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson and Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon were named the 2011 Connie Mack Award winners today by the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. The Connie Mack Award recognizes those considered the top manager for the season. Gibson took over an Arizona team that [...]

The 3rd BBA Award of the postseason, the Goose Gossage Award, is given to the best relief pitcher in each league. And this ballot was the closest race for the Boston Chapter, with 3 votes separating the winner from the 3rd place selection, and a 1 vote difference between 1st and 2nd place… The Boston [...]

As the Boston chapter of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) voted for the Connie Mack Award earlier this week, it’s time for the Willie Mays Award, given to the Best Rookie for the 2011 Campaign. Again, The Boston Chapter only votes for the AL portion, and we get 2 votes towards the BBA’s collective awards [...]

It’s that time of year again, where all of the member blogs of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) get together to vote for our Postseason Awards… Each Chapter gets 2 votes, and, as Boston is an AL team, we only voted on that 1/2 of the league, and we have chose run it pretty much [...]