By Phil Rogers
INDIANAPOLIS -- After a process in which St. Louis' Adam Wainwright received the most first-place votes but did not win the NL Cy Young award, the Baseball Writers Association of America is changing the ballot for the award.
A motion made by the New York Daily News' Mark Feinsand to expand the size of the ballot from three to five was approved by a 47-26 vote as a meeting of the BBWAA on Tuesday. A three-player ballot, as is used in Rookie and Manager of the Year voting, had been used since 1970. Feinsand said his proposal was note made as a response to Tim Lincecum winning the award in a vote in which Carpenter was left off two ballots last ballots.
Also at the meeting, the Daily News' Bill Madden was named to receive the J.G. Taylor Spink Award at next summer's Hall of Fame induction.
INDIANAPOLIS -- After a process in which St. Louis' Adam Wainwright received the most first-place votes but did not win the NL Cy Young award, the Baseball Writers Association of America is changing the ballot for the award.
A motion made by the New York Daily News' Mark Feinsand to expand the size of the ballot from three to five was approved by a 47-26 vote as a meeting of the BBWAA on Tuesday. A three-player ballot, as is used in Rookie and Manager of the Year voting, had been used since 1970. Feinsand said his proposal was note made as a response to Tim Lincecum winning the award in a vote in which Carpenter was left off two ballots last ballots.
Also at the meeting, the Daily News' Bill Madden was named to receive the J.G. Taylor Spink Award at next summer's Hall of Fame induction.
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