The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America announced the vote for MVP. Miguel Cabrera and Buster Posey won the titles:
Los Angeles – The Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) announced its 2012 Most Valuable Player Awards Monday, electing Buster Posey in the National League and Miguel Cabrera in the American League.
Election results are as follows:
AL MVP
1st Place: Miguel Cabrera, Detroit Tigers
2nd Place: Mike Trout, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
3rd Place: Adrian Beltre, Texas Rangers
4th Place: Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers
5th Place: Robinson Cano, New York Yankees
6th Place: Adam Jones, Baltimore Orioles
7th Place: Prince Fielder, Detroit Tigers
8th Place: Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers
9th Place: Edwin Encarnación, Toronto Blue Jays
10th Place: Derek Jeter, New York YankeesNL MVP
1st Place: Buster Posey, San Francisco Giants
2nd Place: Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers
3rd Place: Andrew McCutchen, Pittsburgh Pirates
4th Place: Yadier Molina, St. Louis Cardinals
5th Place: Chase Headley, San Diego Padres
6th Place: David Wright, New York Mets
7th Place: Adam LaRoche, Washington Nationals
8th Place: Jay Bruce, Cincinnati Reds
9th Place: Joey Votto, Cincinnati Reds
10th Place: Matt Holliday, St. Louis CardinalsThe IBWAA will announce its Hall of Fame election results January 7, 2013.
The IBWAA was established July 4, 2009 by Howard Cole, editor of BaseballSavvy.com, to organize and promote the growing online baseball media, and to serve as a digital alternative to the BBWAA.
Among others, IBWAA members include Barry Bloom, MLB.com; Tim Brown, Yahoo Sports; Fred Claire, former General Manager, Los Angeles Dodgers; Joe McDonnell, FoxSportsWest.com; Ramona Shelburne, ESPNLA.com; Tom Hoffarth, J.P. Hoornstra and Jill Painter, Los Angeles Daily News; Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times; and prominent baseball authors Paul Dickson, Peter Golenbock, Josh Pahigian and Dan Schlossberg.
Association membership is open to any and all Internet baseball writers, with a yearly fee of $10, or $20 lifetime. Discounts for groups and scholarships are available.
For more information please go to www.ibwaa.com.
I’m somewhat surprised that an internet savvy group of writers would vote Cabrera over Trout. This might actually turn out to be a season in which the BBWAA does a better job. I would like to have seen the vote totals as well to see just how close Mike came to beating Miguel.
I like the NL list a lot, especially seeing players from tough parks for hitters doing well, and the great catchers getting their due. I hope Pirates fans appreciate the greatness of Andrew McCutchen as well.
I’m also surprised Trout wasn’t chosen. Like you say, usually the IBWAA seems to be in line with sabermetrics viewpoint on players than the BBWAA. I’m sure the BBWAA won’t do better than this. Why doesn’t the IBWAA release the vote totals? The BBWAA does. Or at least release the percentage of votes that each player got.
You do not need a Sabermetrics viewpoint to acknowledege that Trout has had one of the greatest season ever.
It am really amazed that these group of people would pick Cabrera over Trout. This is ridiculous.
Lot of voters are from West Coast, so you cannot blame the East Coast bias.