| Will there ever be an Award Name Change? |
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Like, instead of Cy Young, they would call it The Santana Award (Of Course Johan) |
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Awards are generally named after a person to honor them. It would be very disgraceful to rename an award like the Cy Young. Gold Glovers or the Silver Slugger on the other hand could be changed. For example the Gold Glove could become the Ozzie Smith award. |
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Yes probably unless they make a new award for best closer they can name it the Hoffman award... other than that i dont see baseball changing it (in case you didnt notice baseball hates change) Its possible, but like the other answers say, it would be very rude to change the name of an award that was named after the person who started the award. Until someone wins more than 511 games I think the Cy Young award is safe. What I would do: There should be a name change for the gold glove it should be the Omar Vizquel Award =D I agree with some of what's been said; it's kind of hard to just rename an award that's already been named after someone. As for renaming the Gold Glove Award after an individual, as one person already pointed out, it would be too position specific if you named it after one person. Also, how would you choose one individual anyway? Ozzie Smith may be the best defensive shortstop and Brooks Robinson may be the best defensive third baseman, but how do you decide which is the better defender, unless you name each position's award after a different individual, such as C: Johnny Bench, 1B: ?, 2B: Bill Mazeroski, SS: Ozzie Smith, 3B: Brooks Robinson, OF: Willie Mays, P: Jim Kaat (maybe Greg Maddux if he was retired). If an award isn't named after an individual, than maybe it could be renamed, such as when the All-Star MVP Award was renamed the Ted Williams Award. The Rolaids Relief Man of the year could be changed to the Rivera award in the AL, and the Trevor Hoffman award in the NL |
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