The Baseball Writers Affiliation of America announced the finalists for the 2024 awards. These are prime three vote getters (listed in alphabetical order) for the 4 greatest awards: MVP, Cy Younger, Rookie of the 12 months and Supervisor of the 12 months. Winners might be revealed subsequent week, as will every voter’s particular person poll.
MVP
American League
Nationwide League
Cy Younger
American League
Nationwide League
Rookie of the 12 months
American League
Nationwide League
Supervisor of the 12 months
American League
- A.J. Hinch (Tigers)
- Matt Quatraro (Royals)
- Stephen Vogt (Guardians)
Nationwide League
- Carlos Mendoza (Mets)
- Pat Murphy (Brewers)
- Mike Shildt (Padres)
There’s some intrigue with the Cy Younger finalists particularly. Clase touchdown within the prime three over a starter like Corbin Burnes or Cole Ragans is considerably shocking. Cleveland’s nearer had an all-time nice exhibiting — awards are voted on earlier than his shaky postseason efficiency — but it surely’s uncommon for a more in-depth to get into this territory. Clase turns into the primary reliever since Francisco Rodríguez in 2008 to earn a top-three end.
Within the Nationwide League, the largest growth is Skenes touchdown within the prime three for Cy Younger. The Pittsburgh righty had a sensational rookie season, posting a 1.96 ERA whereas putting out practically a 3rd of batters confronted. He solely began 23 video games and logged 133 innings after being known as up in Could, nonetheless, so it wasn’t clear if his workload was ample to get into finalist territory. Skenes is the primary rookie to safe a prime three Cy Younger end since José Fernández in 2013.
The rest of the balloting got here with out a ton of suspense. Ohtani and Choose are anticipated to win the MVP, whereas Skubal and Sale ought to safe the primary Cy Younger wins of their respective careers. Ohtani would change into the thirteenth participant in historical past to win MVP thrice and would be part of Frank Robinson as the one gamers to win the award in every league. It’d be Choose’s second such win.
Issues are extra open with the awards for the highest rookies and managers. There wasn’t a dominant rookie exhibiting within the American League. All three NL finalists would have been prohibitive favorites to win the award in the event that they performed within the AL. (Even Shota Imanaga and Masyn Winn, who had been squeezed out of a loaded NL area, would possibly’ve gained within the American League.)
Supervisor of the 12 months is all the time probably the most tough to foretell given the problem in quantifying a supervisor’s influence when a staff outperforms common expectations.
The awards might be introduced as follows:
- Nov. 18: Rookie of the 12 months
- Nov. 19: Supervisor of the 12 months
- Nov. 20: Cy Younger
- Nov. 21: MVP
