Does “true” mean that every voter’s ballot is public? That has never happened, either (although, to the BBWAA’s credit, the organization now encourages voters to publish their ballots)....  My membership expired last week. Which is neither here nor there, but it just occurred to me.

Edit: I’ve changed the original submitted title as it is misleading.In the article, Rob Neyer mentions that he BBWAA membership has expired. The submitter of the post took that to mean Neyer had his ...

Murray Chass to hold press conference and nose.

On Tuesday, that chasm may have lessened a bit. With the inclusion of Carson Cistulli, Eno Sarris, Sam Miller, and Joe Hamrahi, the online baseball community now has more representation in the BBWAA. I think that is a good thing and I suppose I’m supposed to go on and tell you why. I think it’s a good thing because these gentleman bring qualities to the BBWAA that, stereotypically, haven’t existed much in the past. These guys are well ...

I posed that question to Jack O’Connell, the long-time BBWAA secretary-treasurer, who announced the awards live on the shows.

“Any answer to my question about our giving away our awards while MLB network makes many thousands off it?” I asked in a second e-mail.

“The answer is that we did not give away the awards,” O’Connell replied. “They are still ours.”

I will give O’Connell the benefit of doubt and figure he misunderstood my question. My “give away” was not to be ...