Season 57 Annual Awards

McBain Award: Awarded to the franchise that breaks the single season record for wins 135.  Not awarded. Las Vegas won the most games last season --105.

Dean Award : Given to a player who overcomes an injury or some other hurdle and has a really good season.  The winner  is Geovany Diaz of the Las Vegas Galaxy.  Geovany had 1- 60 day stint on the Disable List in season 56. In season 56 he had 397 at bats hitting .237. After rehabbing his back injury in the off-season Geovany hit.317 in 605 at bats winning the Silver Slugger award for third basemen.

Kobelesky Award: Given to the franchise that wins the most games throughout all six playing levels.The winner is the Rogue One. They won 541 games;  a .664 winning percentage.

Season 57 Awards Voting

In discussions about the Hall of Fame and the All Time Team, I've been using a metric that I've taken to calling the "Importance Score." That is the player's WAR per year average as a baseline and then they can earn bonus points for World Series Rings, Pennants, MVPs, Cy Youngs, years with 4+ WAR and leading the league in certain categories. It occurred to me several days ago that this would also be a good metric to use to compare the candidates for the end of year awards (although the Cy Young/MVP bonuses wouldn't be applied in this case.) In an effort to use the Importance Score this season, I've taken a look at the league leader boards before doing the WAR math...here are the results:

AL MVP 

• Carlos Romero (LF-Jackson), 10.51 WAR
• Charles Banks (CF-Houston), 7.47 WAR
• Ronald Lewis (RF-New York), 8.94 WAR
• Eugene Lee (2B-Jackson), 7.67 WAR
• Gerardo Montanez (1B-Santa Cruz), 3.98 WAR

NL MVP 

• Kent Stoops (CF-Hartford), 7.27 WAR
• Alex Fernandez (RF-Santa Fe), 6.45 WAR
• Geovany Diaz (3B-Las Vegas), 6.81 WAR
• Dennis Morgan (RF-San Juan), 5.12 WAR
• Rich Winn (CF-Pawtucket), 6.15 WAR

AL Cy Young

• Gregory Brush (SP-Houston), 4.25 WAR
• Kendry Calderon (RP-Boston), 1.85 WAR
• Jimmie Urbina (SP-Ottawa), 3.89 WAR
• Tucker Burton (SP-Louisville), 2.85 WAR
• Cal Langfeld (SP-Houston), 2.73 WAR

NL Cy Young 

• AJ Moreno (SP-Las Vegas), 6.91 WAR
• Jeimer Rodriguez (SP-Hartford), 1.03 WAR
• Anthony Boudreau (SP-Seattle), 6.51 WAR
• Bud Rucker (SP-Santa Fe), 6.25 WAR
• Albert Perez (SP-San Juan), 3.37 WAR

AL Rookie of the Year

• Joel Glaus (SP-Jackson), 1.79 WAR
• Vince Fonville (RF-Ottawa), 2.01 WAR
• James Brock (SP-Santa Cruz), 3.07 WAR
• Jose Cervantes (RP-Houston), 1.72 WAR
• Francisley James (RP-Boise), 0.17 WAR

NL Rookie of the Year

• Bob Haywood (LF-Santa Fe),  3.08 WAR
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