2020 BBWAA AWARDS FINALISTS REVEALED
Winners Will Be Announced November 9 – 12 Exclusively on MLB Network
November 2, 2020 – The Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) today announced on MLB Network the three finalists for each of the 2020 BBWAA Awards, representing the American League and the National League for the Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards. For the ninth consecutive year, MLB Network will exclusively televise the live announcements of the winners of each award during BBWAA Awards Week from November 9-12. The complete list of BBWAA Awards finalists, along with the dates for each announcement, is below:
Monday, November 9, 6:00 p.m. ET:
AL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year:
- Cristian Javier (Houston Astros), Kyle Lewis (Seattle Mariners), Luis Robert (Chicago White Sox)
NL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year:
- Alec Bohm (Philadelphia Phillies), Jake Cronenworth (San Diego Padres), Devin Williams (Milwaukee Brewers)
Tuesday, November 10, 6:00 p.m. ET:
AL Manager of the Year:
- Kevin Cash (Tampa Bay Rays), Charlie Montoyo (Toronto Blue Jays), Rick Renteria (Chicago White Sox)
NL Manager of the Year:
- Don Mattingly (Miami Marlins), David Ross (Chicago Cubs), Jayce Tingler (San Diego Padres)
Wednesday, November 11, 6:00 p.m. ET:
AL Cy Young Award:
- Shane Bieber (Cleveland Indians), Kenta Maeda (Minnesota Twins), Hyun Jin Ryu (Toronto Blue Jays)
NL Cy Young Award:
- Trevor Bauer (Cincinnati Reds), Yu Darvish (Chicago Cubs), Jacob deGrom (New York Mets)
Thursday, November 12, 6:00 p.m. ET:
AL Most Valuable Player:
- José Abreu (Chicago White Sox), DJ LeMahieu (New York Yankees), José Ramírez (Cleveland Indians)
NL Most Valuable Player:
- Mookie Betts (Los Angeles Dodgers), Freddie Freeman (Atlanta Braves), Manny Machado (San Diego Padres)
BBWAA Awards Week on MLB Network will feature live announcements of each award winner in the American League and National League. MLB Network’s coverage will also include live interviews with award finalists, winners and BBWAA members, along with insight from MLB Network on-air personalities including Ron Darling, Al Leiter, Carlos Peña, Harold Reynolds, Buck Showalter, and insiders Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci. MLB Network’s extensive offseason programming will provide coverage leading up to and following each award announcement, including the weekday morning show Hot Stove, High Heat presented by Liberty Mutual, MLB Now presented by Fisher Investments, Intentional Talk presented by United States Marine Corps and the Emmy Award-winning MLB Tonight presented by MGM Resorts. MLB Network’s complete programming schedule is available at MLBNetwork.com.
MLB Network will exclusively televise the announcements of the winners of the Silver Slugger Awards presented by Louisville Slugger this Thursday, November 5 at 6:00 p.m. ET and the Rawlings Platinum and Team Gold Glove Awards this Friday, November 6 at 6:00 p.m. ET. MLB Network will also exclusively announce the official All-MLB Team presented by CohnReznick, which recognizes and commemorates the top performances by players in the 2020 regular season, during the week of December 7. The following is the complete schedule of MLB Network’s awards coverage:
2020 End-of-Season Awards Announcements on MLB Network | ||
Silver Slugger Awards pres. by Louisville Slugger | Thursday, November 5 | 6:00 p.m. ET |
Rawlings Platinum & Team Gold Glove Awards | Friday, November 6 | 6:00 p.m. ET |
BBWAA Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year | Monday, November 9 | 6:00 p.m. ET |
BBWAA Manager of the Year | Tuesday, November 10 | 6:00 p.m. ET |
BBWAA Cy Young | Wednesday, November 11 | 6:00 p.m. ET |
BBWAA Most Valuable Player | Thursday, November 12 | 6:00 p.m. ET |
All-MLB Team pres. by CohnReznick | Week of December 7 |
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Amazing that the Dodgers let both Ryu and Maeda go after the 2019 season -- and they go on to be voted 2nd and 3rd for AL Cy Young -- and then the Dodgers still go out and win the World Series.
ReplyDeleteA demonstration of incredible depth and that teams will make imperfect decisions even in a winning program. You aren't going to get everything right.
And money helps!
Jimmy
Three Things
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You are so correct. It is not luck with these LA Dodgers winning the 2020 WS by any means. I concur. My guess is that the scouting personnel decisions are being handled very professionally there. Maestro like. Einstein even. Kudos to LAD. Kershaw did really well this go round too.
On Robert Gsellman. Forget 2020. He was obviously hurt.
I get the overall impression that both he and Jeurys may have done quite well starting, if there had not been such a logjam at that time. Look at Gsellman's 2016 stat, although abbreviated by what I would assume was his later callup. But the "inn" was full and both were sent out to the pen by necessity of this overcrowding situation.
But I do sometimes wonder about both starting. This may sound absurd, but at age 27 is it too late for pitchers to be converted back? Just something there I see. An opportunity.
Covid19
I ran across this by accident recently. Dr. Fauci has mentioned in before as well. www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02599-5. Worth a read if you get a second.
I like the James McCann catcher idea for here. He's 30 yrs. old, 6'-3"/220, can hit, seven dingers in 2020 not bad, and is affordable too.
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He and Tomas would do.