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FanSided MLB 2012 Awards: AL MVP: Mike Trout

Lewie Pollis — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:50:44 +0000

For many fans, the end-of-season player awards are one of the biggest highlights of the long MLB offseason. There’s just one problem: the most deserving players don’t always win. Though the BBWAA generally does a better job with the MVP and the Cy Young than with, say, the Hall of Fame, their picks for the coveted hardware are often questionable, if not dumbfounding. (more…)

Dempster Dazzles, Rangers Grind Out Win Over Indians, 5-3

Merritt Rohlfing — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 10:03:33 +0000

You could say the skid continues for the Cleveland Indians, but seeing as it’s more the status quo at this point, skid would be the wrong word. Guess you could say the beat goes on. The Tribe fell to the Texas Rangers 5-3 Friday night to end August with a 5-24 record, their worst single month of ball since 1914. Ubaldo Jimenez was decent but not good enough against a tough Rangers lineup, and the bats were silenced by Ryan Dempster and the Ranger bullpen.

The FanSided 2012 AL All-Star Team

Lewie Pollis — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:08:31 +0000

The fan-selected starting lineups will take the field in Kansas City tonight for the 2012 MLB All-Star Game, but we at FanSided MLB weren’t content to let the nationwide vote stand unchallenged. So we held a mock All-Star vote of our own.

Thirty-three writers from around the network offered their picks for the best players in each league between June 28 and July 2 (the dates coincided with the end of the fan voting). Here are the results from the American League (NL results here). (more…)