Mid-season fantasy awards

[Pauly]

Picking up on the Baseball HQ podcast from Friday, and considering we have embarked on the most boring 4 days of the year, who are the winners (and losers) of your mid-season fantasy awards?

Give an answer for AL/NL for each one!

1. Rookie of the year
2. Bust hitter of the year
3. Bust pitcher of the year
4. Most improved (or comeback/surprise player)
5. Best relief pitcher
6. Cy Young
7. Best hitter

[Pauly]

AL Rookie: nobody
NL rookie: Puig barely over Shelby Miller due to Miller's recent struggles, although Jose Fernandez, Jean Segura deserve some love too - lots of great NL rooks.
AL Bust hitter: Josh Hamilton
NL Bust hitter: Matt Kemp
AL bust pitcher: RA Dickey
NL bust pitcher: Gallardo
AL Surprise: Chris Davis barely over Raul Ibanez
NL Surprise: Jean Segura over Domonic Brown
AL Relief: Mo Rivera
NL Relief: Grilli
AL Cy: Scherzer
NL Cy: Wainwright
AL hitter: Miggy
NL hitter: Carlos Gonzalez

[revo]

FYI, Segura is not a rookie.


AL Rookie: Dan Straily
NL rookie: Yasiel Puig
AL Bust hitter: Josh Hamilton
NL Bust hitter: Matt Kemp
AL Surprise: Manny Machado/Josh Donaldson/Nate McLouth/Bartolo Colon, tie
NL Surprise: Jeff Locke
AL Relief: Grant Balfour
NL Relief: Jason Grilli
AL Cy: Max Scherzer
NL Cy: Clayton Kershaw
AL hitter: Miggy & Chris Davis, tie
NL hitter: Paul Goldschmidt

[Moonlight J]

1. Rookie of the year - Shelby Miller
2. Bust hitter of the year -Pujols
3. Bust pitcher of the year - Hamels
4. Most improved (or comeback/surprise player) - Kipnis
5. Best relief pitcher - Rosenthal
6. Cy Young - Harvey
7. Best hitter - Cabrera

[DMT]

AL Rookie: Iglesias
NL rookie: Puig
AL Bust hitter: Hamilton
NL Bust hitter: Kemp
AL Surprise: Davis
NL Surprise: Corbin
AL Relief: Nathan
NL Relief: Mujica
AL Cy: Scherzer
NL Cy: Kershaw
AL hitter: Miggy
NL hitter: Goldschmidt

What about bust pitchers?

AL Bust pitcher: Price/Weaver
NL Bust pitcher: Halladay (Cain needs to be mentioned as well)

[Pauly]

i knew something was missing...lol

AL Bust pitcher: RA Dickey
NL bust pitcher: Gallardo

[james33]

I only do NL. Voting for biggest fantasy impact, if I'm understanding this correctly, rather than real baseball impact.

NL Fantasy Rookie: I don't believe Jean Segura doesn't qualify as a rookie or he'd certainly have my vote. As exciting as Puig has been with 8 HR and 5 SB, I'll vote as a biased Cardinal fan Shelby Miller. 112 Ks, 2.92 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 9 Wins.

NL Bust Hitter: Matt Kemp over BJ Upton or Ike Davis. Upton and Ike worse, but Kemp cost $10 more in my auctions and he's back to being hurt.

NL Bust Pitcher: Jon Niese A lot of good choices here as usual, but Niese (1) was getting a lot of accolades here in the rotojunkie bullpen pre-season, (2) is now hurt, (3) has terrible K:BB relative to his career.

NL Most Improved/Surprise/Comeback: Francisco Liriano Looking like he's back to elite stud starter status.

NL Relief:Grilli

NL Cy: Wainwright Kershaw for real baseball, but Wainwright has four more wins so he gets my vote for fantasy impact.

NL Hitter: Jean Segura Not too far behind CarGo in 5-category production, and he plays a more scarce position.

[Erik]

lots of great NL rooks.

And Harvey just barely missed qualifying!