My picks for this year's baseball award winners:

AL MVP
1) Vladimir Guerrero
2) Johan Santana
3) Miguel Tejada

Guerrero's final week heroics hold off Santana's brilliance from June to September. There really should be more of a push for Santana for MVP. The argument that starting pitchers are less valuable than everyday players doesn't make sense when you think about it this way: Santana faced over 870 hitters this year while Guerrero came up to the plate fewer than 675 times.

NL MVP
1) Barry Bonds
2) Albert Pujols
3) Adrian Beltre

Bonds may have had the best season ever by a baseball player.
(It's either this or his 2001 season.)

Bonds is the first player ever to reach safely 3 out of every 5 plate appearances over a full season. How amazing is this?

Bonds had a .609 OBP this year, which is .140 points greater than Todd Helton's OBP, second-highest in the majors this year at .469. This difference of .140 is greater than the difference between Helton and Cesar Izturis (.330), whose OBP was below the major league average.

If Ichiro wanted to accomplish this feat in batting average, he would've had to hit .460. If he did, he would've had 324 hits, 62 more than his major league record this season.

AL Cy Young
1) Johan Santana
2) Curt Schilling
3) Brad Radke

Santana did not give up more than 3 runs in any of his final 22 starts, a 4 month stretch where his ERA was 1.36.

NL Cy Young
1) Pitcher A: 245.2 IP, 6.6 K/BB, .555 opponent OPS
2) Pitcher B: 237 IP, 8.3 K/BB, .636 opponent OPS
3) Pitcher C: 214.1 IP, 2.8 K/BB, .618 opponent OPS

Pitcher A is Randy Johnson.
Pitcher B is Ben Sheets.
Pitcher C is Roger Clemens.