Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since Aug. 2005. He appears weekly on the FSN Baseball Report and MLB on FOX.

Will it be landslide for Pujols as MVP? Cards slugger is expected to run away in voting, win award today for 3rd time.

Tim Lincecum has joined an elite group of hurlers by capturing his second consecutive Cy Young award on Thursday.

Yeeeha! Only the biggest Gordon scam since they nailed Waxey on that bogus tax evasion mcthingee! Chris Carpenter was the best starting pitcher in the National League.

The National League Cy Young Award winner will be announced Thursday at 2 p.m. ET.

For Cardinals fans, Wednesday's award announcements should provide one last appetizer before the main course arrives on Thursday.

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The hardware continued to pile up for Albert Pujols on Thursday. Pujols was named the winner of a Silver Slugger Award, a trophy presented to the top offensive player at each position in each league.

Let's get to a discussion of the NL Gold Glove voting from a St. Louis perspective: * Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina deserved to win the NL Gold Glove for the second consecutive season.A A And this should be Molina's 4th in a row, but at least the NL managers and coaches who do the GG voting have finally caught on to Yadi's brilliance.

As few mistakes as Adam Wainwright made on the mound in 2009, he made even fewer in the field.

Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak conceded Tuesday that the club continues to ponder how and when to re-introduce Mark McGwire, hitting coach, to the team's fan base and expectant local and national media.

The 2009 Major League Baseball awards, in a perfect world: AL and NL MVP and Best Player: The real award and the mythical one should both go, in unanimous fashion, to Albert Pujols and Joe Mauer.

Major League Baseball doesn't need a mythical national champion. It can generate enough arguments on its own.

Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals and Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals were named the top pitchers by the Major League Baseball Players Association.

When it came to the pitchers who had been among the most consistent, most steady and, at times, most dominant in the National League for the past two season, St.

This ballot is for the Baseball Bloggers Alliance , a group of baseball bloggers who are pooling votes together to give out our own post-season award.

Chris Carpenter, left, and Adam Wainwright combined for 36 wins, 425 innings and a 2.46 ERA this season, helping the Cardinals to the NL Central title.

Albert Pujols , Joe Mauer and Zack Greinke should be shoo-ins for the NL MVP, AL MVP and AL Cy Young awards, respectively.

So are Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright , two of the league's top three starting pitchers.

Baseball players, by necessity, must have short memories. There are simply too many games to dwell on one game, no matter how it ends.