Offensive MVP

The voting is over for the Silver Hawks offensive MVP award, as determined by you, the readers of this blog. Since this is a completely unofficial poll, there is no prize awarded other than the pride of knowing the fans selected you (and yes, it's unofficial because this basically just turns into a "who can stuff the ballot box?" campaign).

Here are the results
1) Justin Parker - 23 votes
2) Jake Elmore - 16 votes
3) A.J. Pollock - 13 votes
4) Brendan Duffy - 11 votes
5) Alfredo Marte - 6 votes
6) Reynaldo Navarro - 5 votes
T-7) Rossmel Perez, Alberto Diaz, Victor Estevez - 2 votes each

Not that it matters, but here is how I would have ranked them:
1) Alfredo Marte (the fans only voting him 5th is a joke)
2) A.J. Pollock (his presence in the lineup made this team better)
3) Justin Parker (would most likely be #1 if not for the injuries)
4) Brendan Duffy (might be #1 if he had played the full season)
5) Jake Elmore (great start, great finish, bad middle)
6) Reynaldo Navarro (steadily improved all season)
7) Rossmel Perez (decent average, too many DPs and no power)
8) Alberto Diaz (maybe should be higher, but power fell off)
9) Victor Estevez (great finish to the year)

Again, I didn't include everyone in the voting because certain players didn't have enough at-bats to really qualify and there's no great way to measure what a guy like Ryan Wheeler did in a week against what Justin Parker did all season. I'm sure I'll be looking for ideas for blog posts later in the winter, so I'm sure I'll get back into ranking every player that played here this year.

In the meantime, you can vote for the pitching MVP on the right. Since I'm determining the "limits", let's say you had to pitch more than 35.0 innings and had to have an ERA lower than 4.50 to qualify (again, this is done to limit the candidates to those that truly deserve to be on the ballot, and try to avoid the "stuff the ballot box" routine that we see happen way too often).

Offensive MVP

There's a new poll on the right of this page, asking you to vote for who you felt was the Silver Hawks offensive MVP.

With apologies to some of the players not nominated, you had to play at least two months with South Bend to be included, and your average had to be at least .230 to qualify.

My blog...my rules.