Seeking research help on MLB award voting breakdowns
SABR member Cory Schwartz, Vice President of Stats for MLB.com and a Henry Chadwick Award winner, is seeking your help on a special research project about Major League Baseball’s postseason awards.
Schwartz is building a database with complete voting breakdowns for all major Baseball Writers Association of American postseason awards since each was first introduced. A listing of point totals and first-place votes can be found in Baseball-Reference.com’s Awards section, but accurate information remains incomplete for the second- through 10th-place voting totals for many past awards.
If you can help fill in the gaps, or know of any sources for a complete 1-through-10 voting breakdown of these awards, please contact Cory Schwartz at mlbamstats@gmail.com.
Here are the seasons that are missing for each award:
AL MVP
- Complete: 1955 to 1957, 1959 to 2014
- Missing: 1931 to 1954, 1958 (published totals have errors that cannot be reconciled)
NL MVP
- Complete: 1955 to 2014
- Missing: 1931 to 1954
MLB Cy Young
- Complete: 1956 to 1966
- Missing: None
AL Cy Young
- Complete: 1967 to 1969, 1979 to 2014
- Missing: 1970 to 1978
NL Cy Young
- Complete: 1967 to 1969, 1979 to 2014
- Missing: 1970 to 1978
MLB Rookie of the Year
- Complete: 1948
- Missing: 1947
AL Rookie of the Year
- Complete: 1949 to 1979, 1982, 1984 to 2014
- Missing: 1980 to 1981, 1983
NL Rookie of the Year
- Complete: 1949 to 1979, 1981 to 2014
- Missing: 1980
AL Manager of the Year
- Complete: 1983, 1986 to 2014
- Missing: 1984 to 1985
NL Manager of the Year
- Complete: 1983 to 2014
- Missing: None
Originally published: January 27, 2015. Last Updated: January 27, 2015.