With his seventy stolen bases this year Jacoby Ellsbury will once again be the recipient of the Cool Papa Bell Award presented by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. The award (given to the league leaders in stolen bases) is no surprise but even the winners of the subjective awards were well chosen; Elvis Andrus is a good choice for a rookie award, Mike Scioscia is a decent choice for a manager award, and Jack Zduriencik is a deserving executive.
The only one I questioned was Joe Morgan receiving an award for career excellence in the face of adversity. Joe Morgan does an award-worthy job? If you want to talk about his career as a baseball player, that's fine. But if you're going to talk about career excellence, then you can't ignore his ESPN gig and his general ineptitude at that job. But then I thought about it some more and realized that despite some pretty severe adversity (being a complete moron and not actually watching the game that he's supposed to be commenting on) he manages to keep himself employed. And that does take some sort of excellence.
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