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    Dodgers Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

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    LOS ANGELES -- Dodger left-hander Hong-Chih Kuo today was named the 2008 Setup Man of the Year, as voted on by fans on MLB.com. The award is part of the website's This Year in Baseball Awards. The Taiwan native received 30.3 percent of the vote, ahead of Tampa Bay's Grant Balfour (19.2 percent), the Cubs' Carlos Marmol (17.6 percent), and the Angels' Scot Shields (7.5 percent).
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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    Ugh.

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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    Tyler Walker got hosed!

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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    Umm, does anyone else realize that this is based on fan voting? Fan voting means NOTHING.

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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    Umm, All Stars get voted in on fan voting. So fan voting does count SOMETHING. Besides, it's not exactly ballot stuffing by homers. If it were, ****ing Aaron Heilman might have won it just because he plays for New York.

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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    Not true. Heilman was HATED by his own fans, so why in god's name would they vote for him. Plus, as we've argued before, the All Star Balloting is in itself messed up. So, fan voting, while it may be given meaning, in actuality is the worst possible way to decide an award winner. Even if the award happens to be as meaningless as this one.

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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    I don't see how the voting here is messed up. The leading 3 candidates are all deserving of the award. Even if you believe the award is meaningless, I care because Kuo is getting some respect.

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    Okay, that's fine. I'm not sure that anyone doubted Kuo's skill....but I mean, lets be fair, the award isn't exactly a big deal.

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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    He started 3 games, he should lose setup man status.
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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    So what if he started 3 games? Manu Ginobili still received his 6th Man of the Year Award even though he wasn't actually a bench player.

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    Re: Hunchy Crow is mlb.com's Setup Man of the Year

    shoulda been balfour... hell of a year from kuo though too.

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