Announcing the ‘2009 Met of the Year’ award

As another year comes to a close, it’s time to look back and “celebrate” this last season of Mets-dom. Though it fell far under expectations, there were (very) few bright spots along the way.

Now it’s up to you, the fans, to celebrate those bright spots.

Here is your chance to vote for your 2009 Met of the Year! As you can see, the 16-player field is broken down into four brackets in two divisions. Voting will go as follows…

• Orange Bracket: 10 a.m. 12/31 – 10 a.m. 1/1
• White Bracket: 10 a.m. 1/1 – 10 a.m. 1/2
• Black Bracket: 10 a.m. 1/2 – 10 a.m. 1/3
• Blue Bracket: 10 a.m. 1/3 – 10 a.m. 1/4

• Seaver Division, Field of 8: 10 a.m. 1/4 – 10 a.m. 1/5
• Piazza Division, Field of 8: 10 a.m. 1/5 – 10 a.m. 1/6

• Seaver Division, Final 4: 10 a.m. 1/6 – 10 a.m. 1/7
• Piazza Division, Final 4: 10 a.m. 1/7 – 10 a.m. 1/8

• Championship: 10 a.m. 1/8 – 10 a.m. 1/10

• Winner announced: 10 a.m. 1/11/10

Your vote can be cast for whichever player you want to win more. Be it statistics at the plate, prowess in the field, he signed an autograph for you once, you think he “plays the game right,” you think he’s cute, etc. etc.

Check back tomorrow for the first round of voting for the 2009 MotY award, coming from the Orange Bracket…

1. David Wright vs. 8. Jeremy Reed
and
3. Jeff Francoeur vs. 5. Bobby Parnell