28 December 2012

2009 American League

New York took the AL East with 103 wins, and the LA/Anaheim Angels the West with 97 wins, while the Red Sox won the wild card with 95 wins.  The only close race was the Central, where Minnesota with 87 wins was a game in front of Detroit.  Texas won 87 games, Seattle 85, and Tampa Bay 84.  At the bottom of the standings, Baltimore lost 98, Cleveland and Kansas City 97 each.

Joe Mauer won the batting average title with a .365 mark, with Ichiro Suzuki at .352 and Derek Jeter at .334.  Mauer also led in on-base and slugging.  Dustin Pedroia led with 115 runs scored and Chone Figgins tallied 114.  Suzuki had 225 hits, Jeter 212.  Brian Roberts had 56 doubles, Billy Butler 51.  Jacoby Ellsbury and Denard Span each tripled 10 times.  Carlos Pena and Mark Teixiera had 39 homers each, Jason Bay and Aaron Hill 36 each.  Teixiera led with 122 RBI, Bay had 119, Adam Lind 114 and Evan Longoria 113.  Ellsbury stole 70 bases, Carl Crawford 60.

Felix Hernandez, C.C. Sabathia, and Justin Verlander won 19 games each.  Zach Grienke led with a 2.16 ERA, Hernandez was second at 2.49, Roy Halladay third at 2.79.  Verlander led with 269 strikeouts, Greinke 242, Jon Lester 225.  Halladay led the loop with 9 complete games and 4 shutouts.  Brian Fuentes had 48 saves, Joe Nathan 47.

Win Shares leaders, position players:  Joe Mauer (Minnesota) 32, Jason Bay (Boston) 30, Derek Jeter (New York), Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle), and Kevin Youkilis (Boston) 28, Ben Zobrist (Tampa Bay) 27, Chone Figgins (Los Angeles) and Mark Teixiera (New York) 26, Miguel Cabrera (Detroit) and Aaron Hill (Toronto) 25, Ian Kinsler (Texas), Evan Longoria (Tampa Bay) and Dustin Pedroia (Boston) 24, Bobby Abreu (Los Angeles, Jason Bartlett (Tampa Bay), Shin-Soo Choo (Cleveland), Kendrys Morales (Los Angeles), and Alex Rodriguez (New York) 23.

Win Shares leaders, pitchers:  Zack Greinke (Kansas City) and Felix Hernandez (Seattle) 26, Roy Halladay (Toronto) and Justin Verlander (Detroit) 21, C.C. Sabathia (New York) 18, Andrew Bailey (Oakland), Edwin Jackson (Detroit), Jon Lester (Boston), and Jered Weaver (Los Angeles) 17, David Aardsma (Seattle), Josh Beckett (Boston), Mark Buerhle and John Danks (Chicago), and Joe Nathan (Minnesota) 16.

WAR (Fangraphs) leaders, position players:  Zobrist 8.7, Mauer 7.9, Longoria 7.6, Jeter 7.1, Figgins 6.9, Gutierrez 6.3, Carl Crawford (Tampa Bay) and Youkilis 5.9, Bartlett 5.5, Suzuki 5.4, Cabrera 5.3, Teixiera 5.2, Choo 5.1, Pedroia 5.0.

WAR leaders, pitchers:  Greinke 9.3, Verlander 8.3, Halladay 7.4, Hernandez 6.8, Lester and Sabathia 6.4, Beckett 5.5, Gavin Floyd (Chicago) 4.5, Cliff Lee (Cleveland) 4.2, John Lackey (Los Angeles) and Weaver 3.8.

Actual award voting, BBWAA:
MVP (top 14):
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Points
Joe Mauer, Twins 27 1 387
Mark Teixeira, Yankees 15 6 4 1 1 1 225
Derek Jeter, Yankees 9 5 3 5 3 1 1 1 193
Miguel Cabrera, Tigers 1 1 5 8 4 3 2 1 3 171
Kendry Morales, Angels 3 9 10 3 2 170
Kevin Youkilis, Red Sox 2 7 3 4 2 2 4 1 150
Jason Bay, Red Sox 1 1 4 5 4 5 1 78
Ben Zobrist, Rays 1 4 3 1 2 34
Ichiro Suzuki, Mariners 2 4 4 3 33
Alex Rodriguez, Yankees 1 3 2 1 31
Chone Figgins, Angels 3 1 2 3 31
Aaron Hill, Blue Jays 1 2 2 3 23
Bobby Abreu, Angels 2 1 1 1 4 23
Mariano Rivera, Yankees 2 1 1 17

Cy Young:

1st 2nd 3rd Points
Zack Greinke, Kansas City Royals 25 3 134
Felix Hernandez, Seattle Mariners 2 23 1 80
Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers 1 9 14
CC Sabathia, New York Yankees 2 7 13
Roy Halladay, Toronto Blue Jays 11 11

Rookie:

1st 2nd 3rd Points
Andrew Bailey, Oakland Athletics 13 6 5 88
Elvis Andrus, Texas Rangers 8 6 7 65
Rick Porcello, Detroit Tigers 7 8 5 64
Jeff Niemann, Tampa Bay Rays 5 6 21
Gordon Beckham, Chicago White Sox 2 4 10
Brett Anderson, Oakland Athletics 1 1 4

Manager:

1st 2nd 3rd Points
Mike Scioscia, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 15 10 1 106
Ron Gardenhire, Minnesota Twins 6 12 6 72
Joe Girardi, New York Yankees 4 3 5 34
Don Wakamatsu, Seattle Mariners 2 2 3 19
Ron Washington, Texas Rangers 1 1 11 19
Jim Leyland, Detroit Tigers 2 2


Top player:  Joe Mauer, the Twins' multi-talented catcher.  Mauer made this mini-run of Minnesota success possible.
#1 Joe Mauer, #2 Derek Jeter, #3 Ben Zobrist, #4 Kevin Youkilis, #5 Ichiro Suzuki, #6 Mark Teixiera.

Top pitcher:  Zach Grienke had an amazing year.
#1 Zach Greinke, #2 Felix Hernandez, #3 Justin Verlander, #4 Roy Halladay, #5 C.C. Sabathia.

Top rookie:  Andrew Bailey, though Elvis Andrus is a close second.

Top manager:  Mike Scioscia, who has been a steady skipper for the Angels.

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