{"id":5198,"date":"2011-10-20T12:50:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2011-10-20T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:11:44","slug":"bba-stan-musial-award-american-league-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/archives\/5198","title":{"rendered":"BBA Stan Musial Award (American League MVP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- NOTE: some names the b-r linker matched have multiple, possible  \n           player id matches.  Leave this as is or search for \"results=\" to  \n           select a desired player\/id pairing. You may remove this comment. --> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BaseballBloggersAlliance-thumb-200x155-12545.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5106\" title=\"BaseballBloggersAlliance-thumb-200x155-12545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BaseballBloggersAlliance-thumb-200x155-12545.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How we voted for American League MVP:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Me: 1) Ellsbury\u00a0 2) Bautista\u00a0 3) Verlander\u00a0 4) Granderson\u00a0 5) Cabrera<\/p>\n<p>Griff: 1) Bautista\u00a0 2) Ellsbury\u00a0 3) Granderson\u00a0 4) Pedroia\u00a0 5) Zobrist<\/p>\n<p>Dee: 1) Ellsbury\u00a0 2) Bautista\u00a0 3) Pedroia\u00a0 4) Verlander\u00a0 5) Kinsler<\/p>\n<p>Jim: 1) Verlander\u00a0 2) Ellsbury\u00a0 3) Cabrera\u00a0 4) Bautista\u00a0 5) Granderson<\/p>\n<p>Towel: 1) Bautista\u00a0 2) Granderson\u00a0 3) Verlander\u00a0 4) Ellsbury\u00a0 5) Cabrera<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Final Vote:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/ellsbja01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Jacoby  Ellsbury<\/a><\/strong>, OF, Boston Red Sox<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/player_search.cgi?results=bautijo02,bautis005jos&#038;utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Jose  Bautista<\/a><\/strong>, OF, Toronto Blue Jays<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/verlaju01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Justin  Verlander<\/a><\/strong>, RHP, Detroit Tigers<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/grandcu01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Curtis  Granderson<\/a><\/strong>, OF, New York Yankees<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cabremi01.shtml?utm_source=direct&#038;utm_medium=linker&#038;utm_campaign=Linker\">Miguel  Cabrera<\/a><\/strong>, 1B, Detroit TIgers<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How we voted for American League MVP: Me: 1) Ellsbury\u00a0 2) Bautista\u00a0 3) Verlander\u00a0 4) Granderson\u00a0 5) Cabrera Griff: 1) Bautista\u00a0 2) Ellsbury\u00a0 3) Granderson\u00a0 4) Pedroia\u00a0 5) Zobrist Dee: 1) Ellsbury\u00a0 2) Bautista\u00a0 3) Pedroia\u00a0 4) Verlander\u00a0 5) Kinsler Jim: 1) Verlander\u00a0 2) Ellsbury\u00a0 3) Cabrera\u00a0 4) Bautista\u00a0 5) Granderson Towel: 1) Bautista\u00a0 2) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,6,16,11,13,776,14],"tags":[619,558,828,638,103,63,1486,411,179,464,71,454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}