The Illowa APBA League ballot results are in for the 2011 awards and there weren’t too many surprises. Nor should there have been.
Moline Upperdeckers firstbaseman Joey Votto took the MVP award unanimously. Votto led the IAL in homeruns (52), runs scored (137), slugging (.691) and OBP (.429) and came in second with 115 rbis.
Molly Putts Marauders pitcher Adam Wainwright laid claim to the Cy Young award in 2011. His stats were just as dominating. He led the league in wins with a 19-8 record. Wainwright also paced the IAL in ERA with a 1.96 ERA (that was .86 lower than the next lower ERA). He also came in second in shutouts with four. Wainwright vote almost was unanimous with one dissension (one joker voted for Joakim Soria).
In an interesting development, there is a three-way tie for Manager of the Year. Congrats to Don Smith, Marcus Bunch and Chuck Lucas who all ended up playoff bound in 2011!
The rest of the 2011 IAL awards:
- C- Brian McCann
- 1B- Joey Votto (Unanimous)
- 2B- Robinson Cano (Unanimous)
- 3B- Adrian Beltre
- SS- Troy Tulowitzki
- OF- Josh Hamilton (Unanimous)
- OF- Alfonso Soriano
- OF- Pedro Guerrero
- RHP- Adam Wainwright (Unanimous)
- LHP- C.C. Sabathia (Unanimous)
- ROY- Neil Walker
- Fireman- Francisco Rodriguez
