NL '08 IBAs ... Phat Albert, Timmy, Soto and Big Bad Lou

Wednesday, November 05 2008 @ 03:50 PM EST

Yesterday, we reviewed Baseball Prospectus' AL 2008 Internet Baseball Awards, and Roy Halladay was mentioned prominently, if not invited into the winner's circle. Today we learn the NL winners ...

• Albert Pujols edged Man-Ram (correction ... Han-Ram!) and Lance Berkman for MVP;
• Tim "He was almost a Blue Jay?" Lincecum is your Cy Young winner, bettering Johan Santana and far ahead of third-place CC Sabathia;
• Geovany Soto was rookie of the year. Duh.
• Lou Piniella, manager of the year? Over Charlie Manuel? Really?

A few questions and comments ...

• I know Manny was All That for the Dodgers, but why is his partial season in SoCal worth second place while CC's dominance in Beer City is worthy only of a pitching bronze? Correction: totally never mind. As noted below, the Ramirez in question is Hanley, not Manny.
• I can only assume balloting was completed before the playoffs, or Charlie Manuel would have waltzed to the manager award.
• Soto was clearly the rookie of the year -- he racked up more points than every other member of the Top 10 in that category combined. But as for those 10, it's sure fun to look at that list from a standpoint of player names -- Geovany Soto, Joey Votto, Jair Jurrjens, Hiroki Kuroda, Kosuke Fukudome, Clayton Kershaw, Johnny Cueto, Blake DeWitt -- hey John Lannan and Jay Bruce ... you need cool nicknames!

What elss jumps out at you, Bauxites?

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