TAMPA — It’s time for the 2016 Baseball Oscars.
It’s a simple enough concept: We take the Academy Awards, minus Best Documentary and Best Documentary Short — I could never figure out a way to convert those to baseball-ese — and apply them to the Major League Baseball world of the past 365 days.
In the order of Sunday night’s awards show, here we go:
Original screenplay: We hadn’t seen anything quite like what transpired in Toronto last year. Alex Anthopoulos, native Canadian, put all his chips on the table, pulling off a flurry of go-for-it trades, and it worked, getting the Blue Jays the American League East title and their first playoff berth since 1993.