There wasn’t a whole lot of baseball news on Monday to start off the week, but we did get some awards finalists in what was inexplicably a two-hour announcement show. The one good thing about the Red Sox being so bad is that there was absolutely no reason for me to watch that show. It will come as no shock that Boston had exactly zero (0) finalists for Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Cy Young and MVP.
Before I get to the actual finalists, let me just go on my semi-annual rant that there is no such thing as finalists for this award.