3 categories added to Esurance MLB Awards

Fans can help select Best Major Leaguer, Postseason; Best Postseason Moment; and Best Call: TV/Radio

November 6th, 2017

Now that the Astros have celebrated their first World Series championship, following an historic seven-game set against the Dodgers, MLB.com has added three more important categories to the ongoing Esurance MLB Awards voting: Best Major Leaguer, Postseason; Best Postseason Moment; and Best Call: TV/Radio.
The Esurance MLB Awards annually honor MLB's greatest achievements as part of an industry-wide balloting process that includes five groups, each of which accounts for 20 percent of the overall vote: Media, front-office personnel, retired MLB players, fans at MLB.com and Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) members.
The performances are still fresh in our minds after the unbelievable finish to baseball's 2017 campaign. Watch the videos that accompany each nominee on the ballot and then help decide some hardware. Here's a closer look at your three new categories of balloting:
Best Major Leaguer, Postseason: Nominees include , , and of the Astros; and of the Dodgers.
Best Postseason Moment:'s walk-off homer ending an epic World Series Game 5; Altuve goes first-to-home on Correa's ninth-inning double in ALCS Game 2; final out of World Series Game 7, followed by Correa's proposal on live TV; Turner's walk-off home run in NLCS Game 2 on the 29th anniversary of Kirk Gibson's miracle homer; 's ALDS Game 2 grand slam following the Yankees' missed challenge which led to a Cleveland win; and Springer's World Series Game 7 record homer on his way to Series MVP.
Best Call: TV/Radio: Greg Brown's radio call of walk-off homer; Tom Hamilton's radio call of the Indians' walk-off for a 22nd straight victory; Joe Angel and Ben McDonald's radio call on Manny Machado's walk-off grand slam in his three-homer game; Houston radio on Altuve homer; TV and radio calls of Springer's game-tying homer in World Series Game 5 that atoned for his misplay in center; Rich Waltz's TV call of the final out of 's no-hitter; Joe Davis and Nomar Garciaparra's TV call of "Silver Fox" 's perfect-game-saving catch; and Ron Darling's TV call of Turner's NLCS walk-off; Charlie Slowes' NLDS radio calls for igniting a comeback in NLDS Game 2, and Michael Taylor's grand slam in NLDS Game 4.
The MLB Awards are an all-inclusive program, encompassing the top players and performances from both the American and National Leagues from Opening Day through the end of the postseason. Voting led off with seven categories on Sept. 18 at mlb.com/awards, including: Personality of the Year; Best Defensive Player; Best Play, Offense; Best Play, Defense; Best Performance; Best Fan Catch; and Best Player-Fan Interaction.
Those seven categories served as the grand entrance of the program, and these three new categories bring the number up to 10. The ninth inning of voting will begin around BBWAA Awards week, which opens when the Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year Award winners are unveiled on Monday, Nov. 13. Voting for the final five categories will begin at 7 p.m. ET on the following dates:
• Best Executive: Thursday
• Best Rookie: Monday, Nov. 13
• Best Manager: Tuesday, Nov. 14
• Best Pitcher: Wednesday, Nov. 15
• Best Major Leaguer: Thursday, Nov. 16
MLB Awards season will culminate on Friday, Nov. 17, when winners are announced live on MLB Network and MLB.com starting at 8 p.m. ET.
Hall of Famers, team general managers, broadcast-booth legends and you will be among those helping to pick this year's award-winners. It's a big deal, because some of the winners who accepted their trophies in person or live on the MLB Awards winners' program last year included David Ortiz, , , and Lindor.
Trout was the Best Major Leaguer in 2016 (his first such honor), while the Cubs' long-awaited title and the great Vin Scully's retirement were among the big storylines in the Esurance MLB Awards.