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Kristy95 · 01-09-2016, 11:38 PM

After stressful holidays, finally season 3!

Free agency has some interesting results yet again.

The first bigger contract of free agency goes to Phil Garner, a 2B who gets 8.5 million for two years to play for the Nationals.

However we see the biggest contract so far a few days later! SS Joe Cronin, who won two Silver Sluggers and two all-star appearances so far, with seasons of 7.7 and 9.8 WAR for Texas is now a member of the Minnesota Twins... how much will he earn? 32 million for 5 years!!!! What a deal!

However, that did not stay the biggest contract! 2B Roberto Alomar, who had similar success as Cronin did gets 33.5 million for 6 years to be a Red Sox! Oddly enough, he played for Minnesota before that.

SP Len Barker joined the Cardinals (originally Cubs) for 27 million for 4 years. SS Jay Bell also gets 27 million for 4 years to join Kansas City (originally Baltimore).

Boston added the most WAR in the offseason at 11.5 while the Cubs lost the most (-11).

Here we see the standings at the all-star break. Philadelphia and Toronto are having fantastic seasons. Johnny Bench and Bob Horner both have 32 homers at the all-star break, while Noodles Hahn is on his way to another MVP title (0.81 ERA, 0.76 WHIP, 12.46 K/9 IP).

Here are the all-stars that have three all-star appearances in three seasons:

Noodles Hahn, Adonis Terry, Walter Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Willie McGill, David Carpenter, Matt Thornton, Johnny Bench, Brian McCann, Lou Gehrig, Roberto Alomar, Bill Keister, Joe Cronin, Bob Horner, Danny Litwhiler, Miguel Cabrera, Ed Delahanty, Matt Holliday and Sammy Strang. Still a lot of guys!

Toronto and Philadelphia are the first to clinch their division. Seattle soon follows. The Giants also win their division very easily. The central divisions stay a bit more competitive. The Cardinals can clinch the division in the NL a few days before the end of the season. At that point, the wild cards in the NL were also decided. Atlanta and the Dodgers get in. In the AL however, the race stays tight. Minnesota wins the central three days before the end, but the wild card is still close. On the second to last day, both Tampa and the Astros clinch the wild card. Cleveland will have the number 1 pick, Rangers gets the 2nd pick. Here the final standings:

Toronto is the only team with 100 wins, no team had 100 losses.

Bob Horner wins the home-run race with 52, Mike Trout is the only hitter with more than 10 WAR, despite being a rookie. Alomar, one of the big free agents, had 6.8 WAR and over 200 hits for the Red Sox. Cronin, the other huge free agent had 8.1 WAR in only 136 starts, however his offensive output did suffer a bit, especially slugging which went from .570 to .477.

Noodles Hahn is the only pitcher with over 10 WAR, ending up with 19-7, 1.39 ERA, 0.78 WHIP, 366 Strikeouts and 12.2 WAR. Could be another MVP season, honestly.

Here the complete leaderboards:

The playoff teams are interesting. Seattle and Atlanta make the playoffs for the third year, while Toronto and Minnesota make the playoffs for the first time.

Starting the playoffs, we have Tampa versus Houston and the Dodgers versus the Braves. Both match ups feature teams that had similar records. Addie Joss is pitching against Joe Blong in the Rays-Astros game. The game stays tight a long time and in the end the Astros survive the Rays in the 10th inning and win 6-5 to advance. The other game was not close, as the Dodgers defeat the Braves easily 6-0 helped by a three run homer from Beals Becker.

Therefore Houston faces Toronto, Minnesota faces Seattle, Los Angeles faces Philadelphia and St. Louis faces San Francisco.

Toronto, as the best team in the league, struggled a little with Houston. Houston actually took a 2-0 lead in the series after a 6-1 and a 7-3 win. However, Toronto did the impossible and came back, aided by Rogers Hornsby who hit two home-runs in game four and five to help the Jays advance.

Seattle, last year's winner is headlined by Noodles Hahn, who has been the best player in the entire league both seasons. Even in the playoffs, Hahn had been untouchable. However, this ended in this series against Minnesota. Hahn ends up with an 0-2 record and a 5.56 ERA in this series, as Minnesota wins the series 3-1. Minnesota had great performances by the expensive free agent Joe Cronin who had five hits, five RBIs and a home-run in this series. Any Boswell (two-time all-star and reliever of the year 2015), had three saves in the three wins for Minnesota.

So that means we will have a new winner for the third year as well. The only team who had previously been in a world series who is still left is Philadelphia, who are facing the Dodgers. Philadelphia is the heavy favorite, with 99 wins this season. They are headlined by Ed Delahanty. Delahanty also had a fantastic series, going .467/.529/1.000 with two home-runs. Earl C Williams added four more home-runs for the Philles, while Dontrelle Willis got two wins as the pitcher. Phillies win the series fairly easily 3-1. Starlin Castro did well for the Dodgers, hitting two home-runs himself and with a .353 average.

So that leaves one match-up this round, the Cardinals facing the Giants. Giants are lead by Lou Gehrig who struggled a little this series. Cardinals are lead by Manny Machado who actually really struggled this series as well. That left room for an unlikely hero though. LF Jerome Walton was traded early in the season from Philadelphia and only hit .232/.299/.449 this year. However, in this series he went .571/.571/1.000 and lead the Cardinals to a sweep of the Giants.

Minnesota faces the Blue Jays in order to advance to the World Series. As I mentioned, both are in the playoffs for the first time. Toronto lead the league in wins and therefore goes into this season as the clear favorite. Rogers Hornsby, who is another rookie (1st overall pick last year, ahead of Trout actually - Hornsby ended up with the 3rd highest WAR for rookies, as well as 209 hits) continues his success this postseason with another great series, going .300/.391/.500 while three-time all star Sammy Strang went .316/.409/.684. Joe Cronin showed why he was worth the contract again, as he went .500/.619/.938 in the series. The pitcher that stood out was from the Blue Jays as well, Bill Steen got two wins with a 1.69 ERA. Toronto took a 3-0 lead in the series, before Minnesota grabbed a single win. However, the Toronto Blue Jays are advancing to the World Series!

Philadelphia was once again lead by Ed Delahanty, who continued his good post-season. Earl C Williams, who had a great previous round struggled this time around, similar to rookie phenom Mike Trout, who struggled as well. On the other side, Machado went back to his form and had a better series, as well as three home-runs while Walton had another fantastic series and added three homers himself. Pitching was also fantastic however, Len Barker (high-paid Starting pitcher for the Cardinals) went 0-0 but had an incredible 0.64 ERA. On the other team, Jack Jones went 1-1 with a 1.65 ERA while Dontrelle Willis went 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA. The series was closer than the other one, with the Cardinals taking a 2-1 lead in the series. However, then Phillies took over and won three in a row to advance to their 2nd World Series in a row!

That means the best two teams of the regular season are in the World Series! A fantastic series lays ahead. Ray Sadecki wins game one for the Blue Jays against Dontrelle Willis who did not pitch well this time around. The game ends 9-6 and saw a three-run home-run by Sammy Strang for the Blue Jays.

Game two features Jack Jones for Philadelphia and Greg Swindell for Toronto. Swindell pitches 8 innings giving up two runs, while striking out 9. The game is tied at two at that point. However, the Phillies find a way to win it in the 9th with a home-run by Johnny Grubb. The series is tied 1-1.

Bill Steen was so great in the last series, here he pitched a bad game and Philadelphia wins one easily 9-2 with home-runs by Ed Delahanty, Earl C Williams and two home-runs by Johnny Grubb.

At this point, one might think that Philadelphia could run away with it. However, game four was a mirror image of game one, Dontrelle Willis pitched another bad game, while Sadecki pitched well. Blue Jays win it big, 7-2 and the series is tied again!

Game 5 was a crazy game. It was only one run that decided the game, in a 7-6 end result that featured five home-runs. While Toronto had one of those, it sadly wasn't enough, as Philadelphia took the game by a hair, aided by those four home-runs, again by all of their stars: Ed Delahanty, Earl C Williams, Jose Offerman (who had a bad season, but a good World Series) and rookie Mike Trout.

Game 6 was the decider already. After losing last year in the World Series, Philadelphia came back and won it all this year! Matt Thornton, three-time all-star, ended up with three saves in the World Series, two of them in the deciding two games. All of Philadelphia's stars were too much, Earl C Williams ends up with Series MVP with a fantastic .458/.500/.833 as well as three home-runs. They have a great team and could be a threat again next year.

The draft had some interesting talent in there again. CF John O'Rourke got picked first overall by Boston. He was a pre-1900 talent. Another CF went 2nd overall to Washington, Benny Kauff. SP Harry Krause went 3rd overall to the Rockies. An interesting name later: 3B Jose Bautista went 11th overall.

In the end though, last year had much crazier talent, with Hornsby and Trout. No one on that level was in this year's draft. Here the entire first round:

Gold Glove awards follow. The guys that won three in three years are: SS Lou Boudreau (all three for Cleveland), CF Stan Javier (one for Oakland, then two for Cleveland) and RF David Justice (all three for Miami)

The guys that have won two in three years are: C Chris Snyder (both for the Red Sox), 1B Lou Gehrig (both for San Francisco), 1B Hee-Seop Choi (both for Texas, though now traded to Seattle), SS Herman Long (both for the Mets) and LF Ed Delahanty (both for Philadelphia).

Also noteworthy: Rookie Mike Trout won the Gold Glove in CF.

Rafael Betancourt wins reliever of the year in the AL for Tampa Bay, going 6-2 with 40 saves, a 1.45 ERA, 0.84 WHIP and 2.2 WAR. Matt Thornton wins the reliever of the year in the NL for Philadelphia after being traded there from St. Louis early in the season. He went 5-4 with 45 saves, a 1.87 ERA, 0.87 WHIP and 1.6 WAR.

Three-time Silver Sluggers in the AL: C Johnny Bench (three times for Kansas City), 2B Roberto Alomar (twice for Minnesota, once now for Boston) and 3B Edwin Encarnacion (three times for Kansas City - only had a .232 average and still won this award).

Also noteworthy: Rookie SS Rogers Hornsby wins the Silver Slugger. No two-time Silver Sluggers in the AL, the rest are all new winners.

Three-time Silver Sluggers in the NL: 1B Lou Gehrig (all three for San Francisco) and 3B Bob Horner (all three for Atlanta)

Two-time Silver Sluggers in the NL: SP Dick Burns (what a great name), 2B Bill Keister, LF Matt Holliday (both for Washington) and RF Beals Becker (both for the Los Angeles Dodgers).

Also noteworthy: Rookie CF Mike Trout wins the Silver Slugger.

Rookie of the year comes with a small surprise... In the AL Rogers Hornsby is only third in voting. Winner of the Rookie of the year award is SP Gus Weyhing (8th pick), who went 18-8 for Boston, with a 2.14 ERA, 0.96 WHIP and 353 Strikeouts (8.5 WAR). 2nd in voting is RF Floyd Robinson (20th pick), who hit .329/.411/.539 with 25 home-runs and 7.8 WAR for White Sox.

The NL was less surprising: Mike Trout wins the award. 2nd in voting is a surprise: RF Matt LaPorta (49th overall pick) has mediocre ratings but hit .270/.339/.503 with 3.9 WAR for San Francisco and had 26 home-runs. Roy Foster (18th overall) finishes 3rd in voting, hitting .295/.366/.509 with 3.3 WAR for Pittsburgh.

No surprises in the AL Cy Young award. Noodles Hahn wins his third Cy Young, is still only 23 years old and is only getting better it seems. Rookie Gus Weyhing ends up in 2nd place, a great result for him. Another rookie, Claude Passeau (5th overall) ends up 3rd in voting.

No shock in the NL either, Willie McGill wins his 2nd Cy Young in a row, finishing 22-9 with a 2.31 ERA, 1.06 WHIP and 306 Strikeouts. He had 8.8 WAR for the Dodgers this year. Pedro Martinez ends up 2nd in voting, he went 18-12 with 2.40 ERA, 0.86 WHIP and 349 Strikeouts (9.0 WAR). Dontrelle Willis, who won the title with Philadelphia ends up 3rd, going 20-8 with 2.45 ERA and 7.3 WAR.

As I predicted, Noodles Hahn also wins his 3rd MVP and already has a hall of fame type career at age 23. Sammy Strang ends up 2nd in voting, he hit .300/.429/.612 for Toronto, added 38 home-runs and had 9.9 WAR (also won his first silver-slugger). Harry Wolter ends up 3rd, he hit .294/.373/.573 for Tampa Bay and had 43 home-runs and 7.3 WAR (also won his first silver-slugger).

In the NL, I had a favorite as well and he won it as well. RF Beals Becker ends the season with .362/.428/.700 and 9.5 WAR for the Dodgers. Lou Gehrig ends 2nd in voting and had a fantastic season as well - .322/.445/.591 and 9.2 WAR for the Giants. Third in voting is the NL Rookie of the Year, Mike Trout (who in his first season won the World Series, was an all-star, won the Golden Glove, the Silver Slugger, the rookie of the year and finished 3rd in the MVP race).

Like every time, free agency comes next time! Hope you enjoyed it all.

01-09-2016, 11:38 PM	#3
Kristy95 Bat Boy Join Date: Dec 2015 Posts: 6	After stressful holidays, finally season 3! Free agency has some interesting results yet again. The first bigger contract of free agency goes to Phil Garner, a 2B who gets 8.5 million for two years to play for the Nationals. However we see the biggest contract so far a few days later! SS Joe Cronin, who won two Silver Sluggers and two all-star appearances so far, with seasons of 7.7 and 9.8 WAR for Texas is now a member of the Minnesota Twins... how much will he earn? 32 million for 5 years!!!! What a deal! However, that did not stay the biggest contract! 2B Roberto Alomar, who had similar success as Cronin did gets 33.5 million for 6 years to be a Red Sox! Oddly enough, he played for Minnesota before that. SP Len Barker joined the Cardinals (originally Cubs) for 27 million for 4 years. SS Jay Bell also gets 27 million for 4 years to join Kansas City (originally Baltimore). Boston added the most WAR in the offseason at 11.5 while the Cubs lost the most (-11). Here we see the standings at the all-star break. Philadelphia and Toronto are having fantastic seasons. Johnny Bench and Bob Horner both have 32 homers at the all-star break, while Noodles Hahn is on his way to another MVP title (0.81 ERA, 0.76 WHIP, 12.46 K/9 IP). Here are the all-stars that have three all-star appearances in three seasons: Noodles Hahn, Adonis Terry, Walter Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Willie McGill, David Carpenter, Matt Thornton, Johnny Bench, Brian McCann, Lou Gehrig, Roberto Alomar, Bill Keister, Joe Cronin, Bob Horner, Danny Litwhiler, Miguel Cabrera, Ed Delahanty, Matt Holliday and Sammy Strang. Still a lot of guys! Toronto and Philadelphia are the first to clinch their division. Seattle soon follows. The Giants also win their division very easily. The central divisions stay a bit more competitive. The Cardinals can clinch the division in the NL a few days before the end of the season. At that point, the wild cards in the NL were also decided. Atlanta and the Dodgers get in. In the AL however, the race stays tight. Minnesota wins the central three days before the end, but the wild card is still close. On the second to last day, both Tampa and the Astros clinch the wild card. Cleveland will have the number 1 pick, Rangers gets the 2nd pick. Here the final standings: Toronto is the only team with 100 wins, no team had 100 losses. Bob Horner wins the home-run race with 52, Mike Trout is the only hitter with more than 10 WAR, despite being a rookie. Alomar, one of the big free agents, had 6.8 WAR and over 200 hits for the Red Sox. Cronin, the other huge free agent had 8.1 WAR in only 136 starts, however his offensive output did suffer a bit, especially slugging which went from .570 to .477. Noodles Hahn is the only pitcher with over 10 WAR, ending up with 19-7, 1.39 ERA, 0.78 WHIP, 366 Strikeouts and 12.2 WAR. Could be another MVP season, honestly. Here the complete leaderboards: The playoff teams are interesting. Seattle and Atlanta make the playoffs for the third year, while Toronto and Minnesota make the playoffs for the first time. Starting the playoffs, we have Tampa versus Houston and the Dodgers versus the Braves. Both match ups feature teams that had similar records. Addie Joss is pitching against Joe Blong in the Rays-Astros game. The game stays tight a long time and in the end the Astros survive the Rays in the 10th inning and win 6-5 to advance. The other game was not close, as the Dodgers defeat the Braves easily 6-0 helped by a three run homer from Beals Becker. Therefore Houston faces Toronto, Minnesota faces Seattle, Los Angeles faces Philadelphia and St. Louis faces San Francisco. Toronto, as the best team in the league, struggled a little with Houston. Houston actually took a 2-0 lead in the series after a 6-1 and a 7-3 win. However, Toronto did the impossible and came back, aided by Rogers Hornsby who hit two home-runs in game four and five to help the Jays advance. Seattle, last year's winner is headlined by Noodles Hahn, who has been the best player in the entire league both seasons. Even in the playoffs, Hahn had been untouchable. However, this ended in this series against Minnesota. Hahn ends up with an 0-2 record and a 5.56 ERA in this series, as Minnesota wins the series 3-1. Minnesota had great performances by the expensive free agent Joe Cronin who had five hits, five RBIs and a home-run in this series. Any Boswell (two-time all-star and reliever of the year 2015), had three saves in the three wins for Minnesota. So that means we will have a new winner for the third year as well. The only team who had previously been in a world series who is still left is Philadelphia, who are facing the Dodgers. Philadelphia is the heavy favorite, with 99 wins this season. They are headlined by Ed Delahanty. Delahanty also had a fantastic series, going .467/.529/1.000 with two home-runs. Earl C Williams added four more home-runs for the Philles, while Dontrelle Willis got two wins as the pitcher. Phillies win the series fairly easily 3-1. Starlin Castro did well for the Dodgers, hitting two home-runs himself and with a .353 average. So that leaves one match-up this round, the Cardinals facing the Giants. Giants are lead by Lou Gehrig who struggled a little this series. Cardinals are lead by Manny Machado who actually really struggled this series as well. That left room for an unlikely hero though. LF Jerome Walton was traded early in the season from Philadelphia and only hit .232/.299/.449 this year. However, in this series he went .571/.571/1.000 and lead the Cardinals to a sweep of the Giants. Minnesota faces the Blue Jays in order to advance to the World Series. As I mentioned, both are in the playoffs for the first time. Toronto lead the league in wins and therefore goes into this season as the clear favorite. Rogers Hornsby, who is another rookie (1st overall pick last year, ahead of Trout actually - Hornsby ended up with the 3rd highest WAR for rookies, as well as 209 hits) continues his success this postseason with another great series, going .300/.391/.500 while three-time all star Sammy Strang went .316/.409/.684. Joe Cronin showed why he was worth the contract again, as he went .500/.619/.938 in the series. The pitcher that stood out was from the Blue Jays as well, Bill Steen got two wins with a 1.69 ERA. Toronto took a 3-0 lead in the series, before Minnesota grabbed a single win. However, the Toronto Blue Jays are advancing to the World Series! Philadelphia was once again lead by Ed Delahanty, who continued his good post-season. Earl C Williams, who had a great previous round struggled this time around, similar to rookie phenom Mike Trout, who struggled as well. On the other side, Machado went back to his form and had a better series, as well as three home-runs while Walton had another fantastic series and added three homers himself. Pitching was also fantastic however, Len Barker (high-paid Starting pitcher for the Cardinals) went 0-0 but had an incredible 0.64 ERA. On the other team, Jack Jones went 1-1 with a 1.65 ERA while Dontrelle Willis went 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA. The series was closer than the other one, with the Cardinals taking a 2-1 lead in the series. However, then Phillies took over and won three in a row to advance to their 2nd World Series in a row! That means the best two teams of the regular season are in the World Series! A fantastic series lays ahead. Ray Sadecki wins game one for the Blue Jays against Dontrelle Willis who did not pitch well this time around. The game ends 9-6 and saw a three-run home-run by Sammy Strang for the Blue Jays. Game two features Jack Jones for Philadelphia and Greg Swindell for Toronto. Swindell pitches 8 innings giving up two runs, while striking out 9. The game is tied at two at that point. However, the Phillies find a way to win it in the 9th with a home-run by Johnny Grubb. The series is tied 1-1. Bill Steen was so great in the last series, here he pitched a bad game and Philadelphia wins one easily 9-2 with home-runs by Ed Delahanty, Earl C Williams and two home-runs by Johnny Grubb. At this point, one might think that Philadelphia could run away with it. However, game four was a mirror image of game one, Dontrelle Willis pitched another bad game, while Sadecki pitched well. Blue Jays win it big, 7-2 and the series is tied again! Game 5 was a crazy game. It was only one run that decided the game, in a 7-6 end result that featured five home-runs. While Toronto had one of those, it sadly wasn't enough, as Philadelphia took the game by a hair, aided by those four home-runs, again by all of their stars: Ed Delahanty, Earl C Williams, Jose Offerman (who had a bad season, but a good World Series) and rookie Mike Trout. Game 6 was the decider already. After losing last year in the World Series, Philadelphia came back and won it all this year! Matt Thornton, three-time all-star, ended up with three saves in the World Series, two of them in the deciding two games. All of Philadelphia's stars were too much, Earl C Williams ends up with Series MVP with a fantastic .458/.500/.833 as well as three home-runs. They have a great team and could be a threat again next year. The draft had some interesting talent in there again. CF John O'Rourke got picked first overall by Boston. He was a pre-1900 talent. Another CF went 2nd overall to Washington, Benny Kauff. SP Harry Krause went 3rd overall to the Rockies. An interesting name later: 3B Jose Bautista went 11th overall. In the end though, last year had much crazier talent, with Hornsby and Trout. No one on that level was in this year's draft. Here the entire first round: Gold Glove awards follow. The guys that won three in three years are: SS Lou Boudreau (all three for Cleveland), CF Stan Javier (one for Oakland, then two for Cleveland) and RF David Justice (all three for Miami) The guys that have won two in three years are: C Chris Snyder (both for the Red Sox), 1B Lou Gehrig (both for San Francisco), 1B Hee-Seop Choi (both for Texas, though now traded to Seattle), SS Herman Long (both for the Mets) and LF Ed Delahanty (both for Philadelphia). Also noteworthy: Rookie Mike Trout won the Gold Glove in CF. Rafael Betancourt wins reliever of the year in the AL for Tampa Bay, going 6-2 with 40 saves, a 1.45 ERA, 0.84 WHIP and 2.2 WAR. Matt Thornton wins the reliever of the year in the NL for Philadelphia after being traded there from St. Louis early in the season. He went 5-4 with 45 saves, a 1.87 ERA, 0.87 WHIP and 1.6 WAR. Three-time Silver Sluggers in the AL: C Johnny Bench (three times for Kansas City), 2B Roberto Alomar (twice for Minnesota, once now for Boston) and 3B Edwin Encarnacion (three times for Kansas City - only had a .232 average and still won this award). Also noteworthy: Rookie SS Rogers Hornsby wins the Silver Slugger. No two-time Silver Sluggers in the AL, the rest are all new winners. Three-time Silver Sluggers in the NL: 1B Lou Gehrig (all three for San Francisco) and 3B Bob Horner (all three for Atlanta) Two-time Silver Sluggers in the NL: SP Dick Burns (what a great name), 2B Bill Keister, LF Matt Holliday (both for Washington) and RF Beals Becker (both for the Los Angeles Dodgers). Also noteworthy: Rookie CF Mike Trout wins the Silver Slugger. Rookie of the year comes with a small surprise... In the AL Rogers Hornsby is only third in voting. Winner of the Rookie of the year award is SP Gus Weyhing (8th pick), who went 18-8 for Boston, with a 2.14 ERA, 0.96 WHIP and 353 Strikeouts (8.5 WAR). 2nd in voting is RF Floyd Robinson (20th pick), who hit .329/.411/.539 with 25 home-runs and 7.8 WAR for White Sox. The NL was less surprising: Mike Trout wins the award. 2nd in voting is a surprise: RF Matt LaPorta (49th overall pick) has mediocre ratings but hit .270/.339/.503 with 3.9 WAR for San Francisco and had 26 home-runs. Roy Foster (18th overall) finishes 3rd in voting, hitting .295/.366/.509 with 3.3 WAR for Pittsburgh. No surprises in the AL Cy Young award. Noodles Hahn wins his third Cy Young, is still only 23 years old and is only getting better it seems. Rookie Gus Weyhing ends up in 2nd place, a great result for him. Another rookie, Claude Passeau (5th overall) ends up 3rd in voting. No shock in the NL either, Willie McGill wins his 2nd Cy Young in a row, finishing 22-9 with a 2.31 ERA, 1.06 WHIP and 306 Strikeouts. He had 8.8 WAR for the Dodgers this year. Pedro Martinez ends up 2nd in voting, he went 18-12 with 2.40 ERA, 0.86 WHIP and 349 Strikeouts (9.0 WAR). Dontrelle Willis, who won the title with Philadelphia ends up 3rd, going 20-8 with 2.45 ERA and 7.3 WAR. As I predicted, Noodles Hahn also wins his 3rd MVP and already has a hall of fame type career at age 23. Sammy Strang ends up 2nd in voting, he hit .300/.429/.612 for Toronto, added 38 home-runs and had 9.9 WAR (also won his first silver-slugger). Harry Wolter ends up 3rd, he hit .294/.373/.573 for Tampa Bay and had 43 home-runs and 7.3 WAR (also won his first silver-slugger). In the NL, I had a favorite as well and he won it as well. RF Beals Becker ends the season with .362/.428/.700 and 9.5 WAR for the Dodgers. Lou Gehrig ends 2nd in voting and had a fantastic season as well - .322/.445/.591 and 9.2 WAR for the Giants. Third in voting is the NL Rookie of the Year, Mike Trout (who in his first season won the World Series, was an all-star, won the Golden Glove, the Silver Slugger, the rookie of the year and finished 3rd in the MVP race). Like every time, free agency comes next time! Hope you enjoyed it all.