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Rays in the mix with BBWAA award finalists set to be named

 
Published Nov. 5, 2018

The top three finalists for the four main BBWAA postseason awards in each league will be revealed tonight starting at 6 p.m. on MLB Network.

The Rays are expected to have finalists for the AL Cy Young (Blake Snell) and Manager of the Year (Kevin Cash).

Less certain is the whether Joey Wendle makes the Rookie of the Year field.

Voting is done by two members of the BBWAA – writers who cover baseball fulltime – in each of the 15 AL cities.

Here are our guesses on the top three for each award, with our picks for the winners coming next week in advance of the announcements.

AL  Rookie top three (listed alphabetically), announced Nov. 12:
3B Miguel Andujar, Yankees
DH/RHP  Shohei Ohtani, Angels
INF Gleyber Torres, Yankees

AL Manager, announced Nov. 13
Kevin Cash, Rays
Alex Cora, Red Sox
Bob Melvin, A's

AL Cy Young, announced Nov. 14
Corey Kluber, Indians
Blake Snell, Rays
Justin Verlander, Astros

AL MVP, announced Nov. 15
Mookie Betts, Red Sox
Jose Ramirez, Indians
Mike Trout, Angels

The Rays have had previous winners of all but the MVP awards:

Rookie
OF Wil Myers, 2013
RHP Jeremy Hellickson, 2011
3B Evan Longoria, 2008

Manager
Joe Maddon, 2008, 2011

Cy Young
LHP David Price, 2012