Setup Man of the Year Award on Baseball Almanac

Setup Man of the Year Award

The Setup Man of the Year Award is part of the This Year in Baseball Awards, established by Major League Baseball (MLB.com) in 2002 allowing "connected" fans to first select nominees for various awards then vote for those they selected in the categories.

In 2010 the Setup Man of the Year Award remained the same, but the "group" of awards they belonged to changed from This Year in Baseball Awards to the GIBBY Awards (Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards).

Those who were nominated and those who won the Setup Man of the Year are presented below in yearly sections. Bold names denote the winner and all nominees appear in descending order of total percentage of votes received.

"Unless you know another guy who comes back to the majors at age 36 and says, 'If I'd asked myself what kind of year I wanted it to be, my answer wouldn't even be dose to what it's been.' It has been amazing. 'More than amazing,' Chris Hammond says." - Sportswriter David Kindred in The Sporting News (09/30/2002, '1.00 is the loveliest number')

Setup Man of the Year Award This Year in Baseball Award by MLB.com via "The Fans"
2002 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Chris Hammond	Atlanta	36%
J.C. Romero	Minnesota	25%
Octavio Dotel	Houston	19%
Arthur Rhodes	Seattle	11%
Alan Embree	Boston	9%
2003 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Brendan Donnelly	Anaheim	23.4%
Octavio Dotel	Houston	16.5%
Rheal Cormier	Philadelphia	12.6%
Rafael Soriano	Seattle	12.1%
LaTroy Hawkins	Minnesota	11.7%
Joe Nathan	San Francisco	7.9%
2004 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Francisco Rodriguez	Anaheim	26.3%
Tom Gordon	New York	25.7%
Ray King	St. Louis	9.0%
Akinori Otsuka	San Diego	6.2%
B.J. Ryan	Baltimore	6.2%
2005 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Neal Cotts	Chicago	21.7%
Dan Wheeler	Houston	18.2%
Tom Gordon	New York	12.8%
Cliff Politte	Chicago	9.7%
Scott Eyre	San Francisco	8.6%
2006 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Joel Zumaya	Detroit	32.3%
Adam Wainwright	St. Louis	17.4%
Scot Shields	Los Angeles	9.5%
Juan Rincon	Minnesota	9.3%
Cla Meredith	San Diego	8.5%
Bob Howry	Chicago	6.1%
Dan Wheeler	Houston	5.8%
Justin Duchscherer	Oakland	5.1%
Jonathan Broxton	Los Angeles	3.6%
Salomon Torres	Pittsburgh	2.5%
2007 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Hideki Okajima	Boston	45.0%
Joba Chamberlain	New York	16.0%
Carlos Marmol	Chicago	9.5%
Rafael Betancourt	Cleveland	7.7%
Jonathan Broxton	Los Angeles	6.4%
Heath Bell	San Diego	5.7%
Casey Janssen	Toronto	3.6%
Pat Neshek	Minnesota	2.8%
Brandon Lyon	Arizona	2.1%
Joaquin Benoit	Texas	1.3%
2008 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Hong-Chih Kuo	Los Angeles	30.3%
Grant Balfour	Tampa Bay	19.2%
Carlos Marmol	Chicago	17.6%
Scot Shields	Los Angeles	7.5%
Brad Ziegler	Oakland	6.1%
Scott Downs	Toronto	4.9%
Mike Adams	San Diego	4.5%
Dan Wheeler	Tampa Bay	4.2%
Taylor Buchholz	Colorado	3.8%
Chad Qualls	Arizona	2.1%
2009 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Jeremy Affeldt	San Francisco	24.8%
Phil Hughes	New York	19.0%
Matt Guerrier	Minnesota	12.1%
Luke Gregerson	San Diego	10.1%
C.J. Wilson	Texas	7.9%
Matt Thornton	Chicago	6.8%
Todd Coffey	Milwaukee	6.1%
Mark Lowe	Seattle	5.2%
Michael Wuertz	Oakland	5.1%
Carlos Marmol	Chicago	2.9%
Setup Man of the Year Award GIBBY Award by MLB.com via "The Fans"
2010 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Joaquin Benoit	Tampa Bay	49.0%
Mike Adams	San Diego	21.0%
Hong-Chih Kuo	Los Angeles	20.0%
Daniel Bard	Boston	5.0%
Luke Gregerson	San Diego	5.0%
2011 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
David Robertson	New York	27.2%
Mike Adams	Texas	22.7%
Jonny Venters	Atlanta	19.6%
Tyler Clippard	Washington	17.3%
Eric O'Flaherty	Atlanta	8.9%
Joaquin Benoit	Detroit	4.3%
2012 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Sergio Romo	San Francisco	45.1%
Vinnie Pestano	Cleveland	18.5%
Mitchell Boggs	St. Louis	14.7%
Ryan Cook	Oakland	6.7%
David Robertson	New York	5.4%
Joel Peralta	Tampa Bay	3.9%
Luke Gregerson	San Diego	2.4%
Ronald Belisario	Los Angeles	1.4%
Eric O'Flaherty	Atlanta	1.1%
David Hernandez	Arizona	0.5%
Joaquin Benoit	Detroit	0.3%
Sean Marshall	Cincinnati	0.2%
2013 Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
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Not Yet Announced	--	x.x%
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Setup Man of the Year Award		% of Votes
Setup Man of the Year Award

The Setup Man of the Year is part of the GIBBY AWARDS / This Year in Baseball Awards set, created in 2002 by MLB.com. Click to see all the other variations.

In 2010 the award title didn't change, but they did choose to start also calling them GIBBY Awards, short for Greatness in Baseball Yearly.

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