Mirroring The Sporting News' awards earlier this month, Jim Tracy and Mike Scioscia have won the Manager of the Year awards for their respective leagues.

In a suprising twist, Jim Tracy actually won in a landslide (the landslide part being the twist), by even a bigger margin than Zack Greinke won the Cy Young.

Only 3 managers received 1st place votes, with Tracy taking home 29 of them. Behind him, Tony La Russa received 2 and Joe Torre received 1. Complete tallies below.

Tracy, as many of you know, led the Rockies to a 190-2 record after Clint Hurdle was fired with a team record of (-14)-29. In the meantime, Tracy also cured cancer, brought peace to the Middle East, and was a soft-spoken gentleman the whole way.

Seriously, Tracy did bring something to the club we lacked in Hurdle. Maybe it was just a different personality, maybe it was something in his actual coaching ability, but whatever it was, it seemed to work pretty well. The next big hurdle for Tracy will be to get Tulo and the rest of the Rockies to not play like they're all on sedatives or something.

Speaking of Hurdle, he was hired by the Rangers as their hitting coach earlier this month.

Across the pond (ok not really), the Angels' skipper Mike Scioscia did some good work with a slightly mismatched and overpaid squad of guys, put some spitpolish into guys like Kendry Morales, and dealt with some serious adversity to start their season as they finished by taking yet another AL West title, and finishing their season in the ALCS vs the Yankees.

Kudos to both managers, and may 2010 bring fortune to them both. More importantly, our clubs.

NL Results

AL Results

UPDATE:

I'm just going to tag this on here for now, but Tracy Ringolsby is reporting that Tracy has been given a three year extension by the club as well. It seems both the MOY and contract situations were resolved on the same day after all.

The round of imaginary hardware-dispensing concludes today, in the form of the National League MVP. This is the last of the six awards voted on by the staff, and the third unanimous one, after which we will all have to sit back and wait for the real ones to be announced, then scoff behind our hands that they are clearly not as deserving as ours.

As Jabberwocky Poseidon warned, the choice may indeed be slightly contentious. Wanna see why? You have to JUMP.

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Three of the six Purple Row Awards garnered a unanimous winner, and this - the AL MVP - is the second. Good thing too, because after the season this fellow had, I would ban the entire staff if the votes turned up any differently.

I always figured a Triple Crown winner would yield a unanimous MVP.  And so it makes sense...what, there was no Triple Crown winner? Okay, so Yaz is still the latest to win the traditional Triple Crown.  However...winning the slash stat Triple Crown is more impressive to me anyway, and our winner not only did so, but he trounced the American League competition in all three categories.

Below is a table of those slash stats showing Purple Row's chosen MVP against his three closest followers (who should be noted are embodied by different hitters in all three stats).  To appease the SABR crowd as well, I have included Runs Above Replacement and wOBA, in which our golden boy proves to be a god among men.

It is abundantly clear one slugger outclassed the rest of the league, leaving other incredible talents in the dust.  He hit .417 in the playoffs and was involved in arguably the most talked about play in the ALDS.  He was one of five AL hitters to walk more than he struck out.  Seriously, is there any way our choice for MVP could be any more impressive?

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Continuing the trend of Purple Row staff handing imaginary hardware to those we feel are most deserving of it, today we reveal the winner of the Purple Row NL Cy Young Award.

The main-stream media had a dilemma between Tim Lincecum of the Giants and the pair of Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals. Proponents of Wainwright (most wins with 19 and innings pitched with 233), Carpenter (lowest ERA at 2.24, best record at 17-4, and best WHIP at 1.01), and Lincecum (most strikeouts at 261, best FIP at 2.34, a freakish windup, and long shaggy hair) all have good arguments.

See which pitcher captured the hearts and minds of PR writers after the jump.

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As we continue our quest to award the big trophies to the deserving players, our eyes turn away from home and to the American League, where pitchers play half of a game and are given back rubs in between innings.

The writers on the staff had very little problem with finding a winner, as this particular pitcher received a unanimous vote from the Purple Row Brass.

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As announced by The Sporting News at midnight, Jim Tracy was selected as the Manager of the Year by a panel of 22 MLB managers.

Tracy, who took the reins after Clint Hurdle's firing, led the club from an 18-28 start and went 74-42 to lead the club to their franchise best finish of 92-70, as well as their second postseason berth in 3 years.

Regrettably, the Rockies did not advance beyond the NLDS in the postseason, however, many players cited Tracy as being instrumental in the club's turnaround.

The Rockies' brass are still working on an extension for Tracy, as well as GM Dan O'Dowd.

On the other side of the spectrum, Mike Scioscia led the Angels to their 3rd consecutive postseason (6th in the past 8 years), their 3rd consecutive division title (5th in past 6 years), and the team finished at 97-65, 1 game shy of breaking the .600 mark. The Angels are currently down 3-1 against the Yankees in the ALCS.

Hat tip to SDCat09 for the fanshot.

***It should be noted that this is NOT the Official MoTY award as presented by the BBWAA. However, the Sporting News' award should hardly be sniffed at.***

Our voting for the National League Rookie of the Year was close at the top. The winner appeared on five of the six ballots, and the second-place winner appeared on five of the six ballots as well. There wasn't much love for any Rockies rookies, though one player received a third-place vote.

Without further ado, the top three for Purple Row's National League Rookie of the Year Award after the jump

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Throughout this week, we will be presenting our MLB Award Winners in the three major categories (MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year). The MVP winners were voted on by the entire Purple Row staff (minus Rox Girl), using the following scoring system:

1^st place = 50 points

2^nd place = 40 points

3^rd place = 30 points

4^th place = 20 points

5^th place = 10 points

The Cy Young and ROY voting was scored as such:

1^st place = 30 points

2^nd place = 20 points

3^rd place = 10 points

So, based on the figures you see above, your American League co-Rookies of the Year (!) are... (join us after the jump to find out!)

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