Presenting the biggest flops of 2009
Sure, baseball fans can identify newly-crowned Cy Young Award winners Tim Lincecum and Zack Greinke. And, yes, the MVP Awards will be announced shortly too – Joe Mauer and Albert Pujols, anyone?
But those are all too easy in the end. What you really need to do is check out Joe Posnanski’s 2009 MLB “Anti-Award” Winners.
Posnanski, writing for SI.com, has put together an inspired list that identifies not only the Least Valuable Player candidates in each league, but also the Anti-Cy Young Award to go along with the not-so-great Manager of the Year.
Fortunately, 2009 yielded an exceptional number of candidates and the “winners” clearly earned their status.
I won’t ruin the surprise by providing the results for you here. Click on that link above for the details.
But I’ll give you one hint. The two LVPs have about $120 million remaining on their combined contracts. Yes, $120 million.
Ensuring that the bar has been set incredibly high for next season’s Anti-Award Winners. And fans in Toronto and Chicago can only hope that a repeat performance is not in the offing.
