MLB Award Voters Improving, Still Overly Fixated On Home Runs

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Philadelphia Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber connects for a double during the first inning in Game 4 of baseball’s National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved With the classic Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series behind us, time marches on, with free agent and trade season now upon us. The last vestiges of the 2025 campaign will be the major award presentations which will soon begin in earnest. I pay the most attention to the big ones – the MVP and Cy Young awards in both leagues – and utilize my batted ball-based evaluation methods to select the top performers. Now my metrics, or anyone’s subjective or objective systems for that matter, aren’t perfect or beyond criticism, but I do stand behind mine. I happen to think they’re pretty good at blocking out the noise and measuring a player’s true talent level and seasonal contribution. And on most fronts, my methods are in synch with the actual award voters. On the pitching side, my top three finishers in both the NL (Paul Skenes, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Cristopher Sanchez) and AL (Tarik Skubal, Garrett Crochet, Hunter Brown) match up exactly with the official award finalists. We’ll see about the order. In the NL, that isn’t saying a whole lot – once Zack Wheeler got hurt, it was pretty clear that those would be the final three standing. In the AL, however, it was nice to see the Astros’ Brown sneak onto the list of finalists ahead of other worthy candidates, like Yankees Max Fried and Carlos Rodon. In a very minor way, it validates both my system and the views of the actual voters. There was some agreement, but not nearly as much, in the…