It’s over ladies and gentlemen. 2007 was a great baseball season filled with records, magic, underdogs, and juggernauts. Now it’s time to take a look back and pick my Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, and MVP awards. These are my picks, not the actual winners, though I’m hoping they closely align.
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October 29, 2007
2007 Baseball Awards
October 26, 2007
Red Sox 2 – Rockies 0: The Sox Can’t be Stopped
Ubaldo Jimenez? Really? As someone who generally follows the American League much closer than the National League, I was awfully surprised to hear Ubaldo Jimenez was pitching game 2. I’m just so used to seeing bigger names in postseason play. I didn’t know much about this guy, just that he threw hard.
And throw hard he [...]
October 2, 2007
Postseason ‘07
October. I love it. This is what baseball fans wait all year for. This year has a completely different look to it. Last year was a year where the Red Sox collapsed due to injury, the Tigers were the young guns proving they belong. Only the Yankees and Padres were in the playoffs last year [...]
September 22, 2007
Beckett for Cy Young
Josh Beckett just pitched himself a Cy Young award.
Beckett just became the first 20 game winner of 2007, and as ESPN keeps pointing out, the first since 2005. I think the “first 20 game winner since 2005″ statement is being
overplayed. It was only one year, last year, that there wasn’t a 20
game winner, and Wang had 19. I [...]
September 12, 2007
2007’s Best Playoff Races
I love September baseball. In recent years, it’s come down to the wire. Every game matters. I expect 2007 to be no different, giving fans a reason to watch right up until playoffs start. Here is a rundown of all 8 playoff races, in order of how good I think each race will be.
#1 [...]
