Baseball by Mister Delaware on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 at 01:55pm I’m back on the front. Yea! Time for the 2nd Annual MLB DelAwards where I take use a heavily statistical slant to fill out my hypothetical award ballots. To warm up, I’m going to clear out the categories I don’t really care about then get into the more meaningful awards over the next week or two. AL Manager of the Year Ron Gardenhire, MIN, 87-76, 1st in the AL Central: I’m not sure what the proper methodology is for picking a winner when there isn’t a team that overachieved their way to a mid-90 win season. You could argue a case for Joe Girardi since he led the undisputed best regular season team (NYA, 103-59) but, under the “managers have the ability to do far more harm than good*” theory, he just had to properly utilize the bullpen and basically put the...
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