NL MVP/Cy Young/ROY

[Elite]

At the halfway point in the season, who do you guys got the for the major awards in the NL?

For me...

MVP: Andrew McCutchen
Cy Young: RA Dickey
ROY: Bryce Harper

 

[Giantmetfan07]

MVP: Joey Votto - although i strongly considered McCutchen.
Cy Young: RA Dickey - just because it's awesome.
ROY: Bryce Harper

 

[NCSportsfan21]

ROY: Harper!
Cy: Dickey
MVP: Wright. Wright is sitting on a 4.8 WAR (MLB leading) at the hardest position in baseball. Cutch is crushing it, but he’s been terrible in fielding this year.

 

[Teagz]

Catcher is the hardest position in baseball both mentally and physically....

MVP: McCutchen
Cy Young: Dickey
ROY: Harper

 

[NCSportsfan21]

3B crushes your body worse than any other position, imo. Look at Youkilis, Wright, Zimmerman, David Freese, Cabrera, Longoria, Ian Stewart, Middlebrooks, Chisenhall, Beltre, Chipper, and Sandoval as injured starting 3B I can think of that were hurt this year or last just of the top of my head...

I mean it’s a matter of opinion, many people will tell you one versus the other. Most experts will tell you it’s 3rd.

Catching beats up your knees, but 3rd beats up your everything.

 

[Teagz]

3rd Base is probably tougher phyisically and Catcher is tougher mentally. As to which one is tougher, it could go either way.

 

[Elite]

As someone who has played both 3B and C fairly extensively, there is no doubt that catching is a million times harder and more physically taxing.

 

[elcheato]

Votto (I don't even think this is a close call)
Dickey
Wade Miley

 

[NCSportsfan21]

That’s your opinion. I’ve played both as well. Some people have better knees/backs than others.

But major league 3B get hurt more often than catchers, that I can tell you.

You are talking about a cage, full padding stationary position versus an unpadded position that often requires snap movement, diving, rolling, twisting, blocking bullets into the outfield, and rifling the ball to 1st-sometimes from an awkward position to beat out a runner.

I fully agree C is mentally the toughest.

 

[Elite]

That’s your opinion. I’ve played both as well. Some people have better knees/backs than others.

But major league 3B get hurt more often than catchers, that I can tell you.

You are talking about a cage, full padding stationary position versus an unpadded position that often requires snap movement, diving, rolling, twisting, blocking bullets into the outfield, and rifling the ball to 1st-sometimes from an awkward position to beat out a runner.

I fully agree C is mentally the toughest.

If you have a bad back or bad knees, catching isn't for you.

Maybe they have a lower tolerance of pain.

The majority of the time the ball finds a spot where the gear doesn't cover and catchers do everything you said 3B do except for the bullets to the OF thing.

 

[NCSportsfan21]

If you have a bad back or bad knees, catching isn't for you.

Maybe they have a lower tolerance of pain.

The majority of the time the ball finds a spot where the gear doesn't cover and catchers do everything you said 3B do except for the bullets to the OF thing.

Not really. If the ball is finding a spot the gear doesn’t cover then you can catch. Rarely a ball takes a nasty foul tip and bounces back at you. And rarely you have to block the plate. Meanwhile at 3B you are almost always in danger of taking a line drive to the body or cracking a rib making a dive for a catch, pulling a muscle twisting to make a throw to 2nd, 1st, etc.

 

[cruzg24]

At the halfway point in the season, who do you guys got the for the major awards in the NL?

For me...

MVP: Andrew McCutchen
Cy Young: RA Dickey
ROY: Bryce Harper

I agree with this, although I wish someone would play better than Harper because it's such a big hype machine right now.