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Awards week is here for Major League Baseball. By Thursday, we’ll know who will take home this year’s hardware for MVP, Cy Young and more.

© Provided by Oath Inc. Alex Bregman and Mike Trout are two of the finalists for AL MVP. (Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images)

Rookie of the Year is the first award and will be handed out Monday. Manager of the Year awards come Tuesday, then Cy Youngs on Wednesday and MVPs on Thursday. All will be announced on MLB Network starting at 6 p.m. ET.

Who’s going to win the awards? Like most years, there’s a combination of shoo-ins and mystery. The Rookie of the Year awards seem like a sure thing, but there’s some debate to be had with managers and MVPs.

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Most points wins. Nice and easy. Below are our 2019 midseason award voting results as well as a short blurb on the MVP , Cy Young , and Rookie and Manager of the Ryu has allowed no more than two earned runs in 16 of his 17 starts this year and no more than one earned run in 11 of 17 starts.

MLB awards week has come and gone, with baseball handing out hardware for 2019's MVP , Cy Young , Rookie of Editor's Picks . How the top four MVP finishers unlocked their home run power. Which Rookie of the Year would you rather have for the next five years ? Sign me up for Pete Alonso.

Before we find out the winners, here are four of our MLB writers making their picks in each category. Before we do, consider this your annual reminder that all voting took place before the postseason and thus, October performance doesn’t factor into the awards:

Hannah Keyser

AL Rookie of the Year: Yordan Alvarez

NL Rookie of the Year: Pete Alonso

AL Manager of the Year: Aaron Boone

NL Manager of the Year: Dave Martinez

AL Cy Young: Gerrit Cole

NL Cy Young: Jacob deGrom

AL MVP: Mike Trout

NL MVP: Cody Bellinger

These are not surprising or controversial or even especially interesting picks! Christian Yelich getting hurt clears the way for Cody Bellinger to take NL MVP easier than he would have otherwise, but I'm choosing to not apply this logic to Mike Trout in the AL because he really is that good. I want to think I'm not factoring postseason performance into picking Gerrit Cole over Justin Verlander for AL Cy Young, and fortunately that's believable enough to avoid admitting it's not really true. It's tough to argue with stats which is why the manager awards are both the silliest and most fun to debate. Ultimately, two of the tiredest team-wide narratives in baseball this year proved sufficiently compelling to me: Dave Martinez keeping the Nationals' spirits high after a 19-31 start to the season, and Aaron Boone steering the Yankees to 103 wins despite a record-setting array of injuries — both in terms of sheer numbers and as well as star power.

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The 2019 MLB season is finally here. Opening Day comes Thursday for most teams around the league , after the Mariners and A's kicked things off in We polled over 50 MLB .com experts for their picks on the 2019 American League and National League Most Valuable Player , Cy Young Award

NL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year (Winner revealed Nov. AL Cy Young (Winner revealed Nov. 14) Two grizzled veterans and an upstart young lefty face off, with the Indians' NL MVP (Winner revealed Nov. 15) Few surprises with this one, as Christian Yelich of the Brewers, Nolan Arenado of

Mike Mazzeo

AL Rookie of the Year: Yordan Alvarez

NL Rookie of the Year: Pete Alonso

AL Manager of the Year: Aaron Boone

NL Manager of the Year: Craig Counsell

AL Cy Young: Gerrit Cole

NL Cy Young: Jacob deGrom

AL MVP: Mike Trout

NL MVP: Christian Yelich

Covering Alonso (MLB rookie-record 53 homers), deGrom (frontrunner for back-to-back Cy Youngs) and Boone (103-59 despite an MLB-record 30 different players on the injured list) in New York on a daily basis was memorable. Trout and Yelich both winning MVP awards despite missing the end of the season due to injuries would be quite a feat. Cole gets the nod over Justin Verlander here, but maybe there should be co-honors.

© Provided by Oath Inc. Jacob deGrom is the favorite to win the NL Cy Young awards. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

Mike Oz

AL Rookie of the Year: Yordan Alvarez

NL Rookie of the Year: Pete Alonso

AL Manager of the Year: Rocco Baldelli

Mets have a stud in Pete Alonso, but will they keep him?

If he continues hitting home runs at the pace he did in his 2019 NL Rookie of the Year season, Pete Alonso will pass Darryl Strawberry for most home runs by a New York Met sometime in 2023. © Provided by Oath Inc. Pete Alonso reacts after hitting a home run against the Atlanta Braves. Alonso won this year’s NL Rookie of the Year award. (AP) If he continues to rack up RBI the way he did last season, he will catch David Wright, the Mets all-time leader with 970, sometime in 2026. Even scoring 103 runs as he did in 2019, it would take Alonso until 2028 to equal Wright’s franchise record of 946.

This week Baseball Writers' Association of America will unveil the winners for MVP , Cy Young , Manager and Rookie of the Year in both the AL and NL. USA TODAY Sports' panel of nine baseball writers and editors submitted selections for the game's major awards at the end of the season and

Plus, the aces and rookies most likely to raise the hardware in 2019. Midway through the MLB season, the races for the 2019 awards are starting to take shape. Who is positioned to be at the center of this year 's MVP , Cy Young and Rookie of the Year battles?

NL Manager of the Year: Dave Martinez

AL Cy Young: Gerrit Cole

NL Cy Young: Jacob deGrom

AL MVP: [Answer withheld]

NL MVP: Christian Yelich

First off, I cast a ballot for AL MVP this year, so I can’t reveal my vote until the awards are announced. Cue dramatic music. I like Gerrit Cole over Justin Verlander for Cy Young even though the numbers were tight. Being unbeatable in the second half, was a tad more impressive. Jacob deGrom is the pick almost by default, as neither Ryu or Scherzer had the full body of work to warrant a Cy Young. Dave Martinez isn’t a finalist, but should be — from getting nearly getting fired to finishing the way the Nats did, that’s worthy of something. As for NL MVP, Yelich gets the nob despite missing the Brewers’ stretch run. Normally, I’d want someone who didn’t miss the most important part of the season, but Bellinger’s season was pretty uneven, with a significant drop-off in production in the second half.

Mark Townsend

AL Rookie of the Year: Yordan Alvarez

NL Rookie of the Year: Pete Alonso

AL Manager of the Year: Aaron Boone

NL Manager of the Year: Dave Martinez

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Most points wins. Nice and easy. Below are our voting results as well as a short blurb on the MVP , Cy Young , and Rookie of the Year races. Andujar has been the Yankees' best and most consistent hitter all season, though he also rates as one of the worst defensive third basemen in the game

The Yahoo Sports MLB crew makes our picks for the playoffs, World Series, plus year -end awards and even how many homers Shohei Ohtani will hit in 2018. Around here, opening day is also when we drop our predictions for the year ahead. Who’s going to win it all? Who will be MVP ?

AL Cy Young: Gerrit Cole

NL Cy Young: Jacob deGrom

AL MVP: Mike Trout

NL MVP: Cody Bellinger

The rookie picks are no-brainers and the manager field is so wide open that I'd be fine with any of finalists winning. I still think Martinez has the best resume just based on how Washington finished the regular season. The consistent dominance of Cole and deGrom make them easy choices, while Bellinger taking his all-around game to another level clinches the NL MVP. Trout and Bregman is a fun debate, but Trout produced massive numbers despite missing extended time. He's simply the best player baseball has to offer.

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Mike Oz is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at mikeozstew@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @mikeoz

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