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And here we go again! Schaefer is the Tabloid Cover Derby's less popular little brother, but it keeps chugging along. Voters will vote, votes will be tallied, awards will be announced, and custom Topps baseball cards will be presented.

I'm probably going to be away from my laptop for most of the Easter weekend, so voting for the first few games of the season may have to wait until Tuesday of next week. But fear not! Rest assured that we will complete our second decade (!) of this fruitless exercise!

PREVIOUS PLAYERS OF THE YEAR

Duda just gets more beautiful as the years pass.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:09 amRest assured that we will complete our second decade (!) of this fruitless exercise!

Two decades is a lot of Schaefer!

(and pop-tarts)

(and rice-a-roni)

If the winner isn't one we expected, it was either a very good year or a very bad one.
Later

Always fun

Hopefully I won't miss any games this year

20 years , wow .. I plan on voting in every game

It looks like something changed on the server over the offseason, and the Schaefer voting form isn't working as expected.

We do apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Rest assured, the Schaefer Department in Stockholm is working to address this issue.

I just received this message from headquarters:

Vi har identifierat och åtgärdat problemet med Schäfer-omröstningen. De skyldiga har identifierats och kommer att straffas hårt.

I believe it means that we're clear to cast our Schaefer votes.

Cast your votes now!

Voting for all games played through April 14, the series against the Royals at Citi Field, will close on Monday, April 22. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so this week.

FINAL REMINDER!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:09 am


Cast your votes now!

Voting for all games played through April 14, the series against the Royals at Citi Field, will close on Monday, April 22. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so this week.

SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Week ending March 30, 2024: Francisco Alvarez, 2.90 points.
Week ending April 6, 2024: Tyrone Taylor, 4.04 points.
Week ending April 13, 2024: Pete Alonso, 7.50 points.

Cast your votes now!

Voting for all games played in the month of April will close on Wednesday, May 8. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so over the next seven days.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 9:16 am


Cast your votes now!

Voting for all games played in the month of April will close on Wednesday, May 8. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so over the next seven days.

I'll post a "final reminder" on Monday, but I'll post this mini reminder as we head into the weekend. All games through April 29 have seven or eight votes, which might be just about everybody, but the game of the 30th is still a little light. There are still at least a few uncast votes. Please be sure to do your civic duty, Judy!

FINAL REMINDER!

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 9:16 am


Cast your votes now!

Voting for all games played in the month of April will close on Wednesday, May 8. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so over the next seven days.

Nice to see solid 9's there to finish the second half of April.

Vote! ­­­­­¡Vota! Проголосуй!

SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Week ending March 30, 2024: Francisco Alvarez, 2.90 points.
Week ending April 6, 2024: Tyrone Taylor, 4.04 points.
Week ending April 13, 2024: Pete Alonso, 7.50 points.
Week ending April 20, 2024: Starling Marte, 7.12 points.
Week ending April 27, 2024: Francisco Lindor, 4.71 points.

Cast your votes now!

Voting for all games played through May 16, the home-and-away series against the Phillies, will close on Friday, May 24. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so over the next week.

Yikes! Just like that I'm nine games behind...

FINAL REMINDER!





Cast your votes now!

Voting for all games played through May 16, the home-and-away series against the Phillies, will close on Friday, May 24.

If there's a 14 next to your name, you've voted in all of the games that are about to close.

G-Fafif 14
Ashie62 14
Benjamin Grimm 14
Methead 14
Metirish 14
Cowtipper 14
SkyKing#26 14
Edgy MD 14
Johnny 10
cal sharpie 1

SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Week ending March 30, 2024: Francisco Alvarez, 2.90 points.
Week ending April 6, 2024: Tyrone Taylor, 4.04 points.
Week ending April 13, 2024: Pete Alonso, 7.50 points.
Week ending April 20, 2024: Starling Marte, 7.12 points.
Week ending April 27, 2024: Francisco Lindor, 4.71 points.
Week ending May 4, 2024: Francisco Lindor, 6.38 points.
Week ending May 11, 2024: Brandon Nimmo, 5.19 points.

I salute Lindor on his two consecutive PotW trophies, even if a total of 4.71 suggests a lean week.

I marvel that, even though I'm far more stingier than the mean with voting points for starting pitchers, no starting pitcher has yet taken home a PotW.

March we onward.

Last year, a pitcher was Player of the Week seven times. Twice each for Scherzer, Verlander, and Senga, and once for Butto.

I don't give a lot of points to SPs because I'm not going to give a guy who pitches just 5 innings lot of points.

It's "just 5 innings " but in those 5 innings, the starter might face 20 batters. Couldn't that be more impactful than a batter's four or five plate appearances?

Call me an old fuddy duddy but a starting pitcher going 5 innings isn't doing his job, which is to pitch innings. He's doing "just enough." That's not usually high-point worthy.