Vance Worley rounds out our Top 20, grabbing 86 of the 275 votes cast, good for 31% of the vote. Andrew Carpenter came out of nowhere, grabbing 36 votes finishing behind Freddy Galvis (60) and Travis Mattair (40) in 4th spot. Saunderson, Shreve, Roth, Schwimer, and Bolsenbroek received write-in votes. I’m going to add Roth to the #21 voting since no one received multiple write-ins. For those of you who are finding this process laborious, the only thing I can say is, there isn’t a whole lot of news in January, and unless we want to have the same circular debates we had all of last season, this is something to at least pass the time. I’ve been strapped for time of late, but I have a few pieces I want to write in the next few weeks. When the Reader Top 30 voting finishes up, I’ll take individual lists and organize them for everyone to see and compare, and then I’ll be putting out my Top 30. And then it should be spring training time, so we’ll have more to discuss. So yeah. Lets move on to #21…

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