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2016 Mid-Season Awards: Year of the Cubs? Dodgers Grab MVP, LVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Half-Year

(By Jayson Stark)

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/16966011/jayson-stark-2016-mlb-midseason-awards

NL MVP ) Clayton Kershaw

AL MVP ) Jose Altuve

NL LVP ) Carl Crawford

AL LVP ) Alex Rodriguez

NL Cy Young ) Clayton Kershaw

AL Cy Young ) Danny Salazar

NL Cy Yuk ) Shelby Miller

AL Cy Yuk ) Clay Buchholz

NL Rookie of the Year ) Corey Seager

NL Rookie of the Year ) Michael Fullmer

NL Manager of the Year ) Dusty Baker

AL Manager of the Year ) WILLIAM NATHANIEL "BUCK" SHOWALTER, III

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[H]ere's to Buck Showalter, a human being who always seems to be operating a step ahead of the rest of us -- not just in baseball but in thinking through life on this planet. I'm not sure what other manager would have looked at Adam Jones, a man with the second-lowest walk rate of any active hitter with 5,000 plate appearances (and 27th-lowest since 1900!), and said: "Let's make him the leadoff hitter. That'll get him going." But, of course, that worked. And you sure don't see a whole lot of managers who can conduct the bullpen orchestra as artistically as Showalter does, every day of every year. Never overworking anyone, no matter how tempting. Working around his almost total lack of left-handed setup help. And still finding a way to win with one of baseball's shakiest rotations. You just don't meet many managers with such a complete feel for every player on his roster and every moment that confronts him. So it's hard to imagine finding this team in first place without him.

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Why? As long as Dan is here we will be fine. What with his trades and knack for not letting young pitching go and all...

It really doesn't need to be all one guy or the other. The O's went 69-93 with Buck as manager in 2011, before Dan arrived. So, it's fair to give Dan some of the credit. And both of them had Manny dropped in their laps.

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