The race is on to see whether or not the Tuesday Chum Bucket will actually be posted on Tuesday.  Since we're so close tomorrow let's see what is on the docket , the GM meetings wrap up on Wednesday, the SB Nation will announce the Cy Young award winners and some of you lucky ones have a midweek holiday.  For us unlucky ones, it is just the regular old hump day, as it is sometimes called.

In the meantime it is a normal Chum Bucket, got a topic of interest on your mind, this is the place to express it.  And it is conceivable that someone will jump into the discussion, it has happened before.  So have at it.

And always, Have a Great Rest of the Night!

Here are the results of the NL Rookie of the Year as voted on by the SB Nation bloggers. 

GameFish and I both put Chris Coghlan #1 and then neither of us can remember what order we placed Hanson and Happ.  But they were #2 and #3 on our ballots.

My reason for Coghlan being first is that when evaluating a rookie the latter half of the season should be weighed more heavily than the first half.  When a player breaks into the league normally one of two things happen, either they start off well and then the league learns them and the impressive start fizzles.  Or they start out slowly until they figure out the league and then come on blazing.  A strong finish, I feel, is more representative of who was the better rookie.  Now both of the NL East pitchers were pretty steady throughout but an every day player should get the benefit of the doubt when making the comparison.

This is completely stolen from Photi at Fish Chucks. normally I would make you go to his site to see it.  However, I want to provide the direct link here at FishStripes. 

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But to give Photi his due, if you go to his site via here you can find out how Danny and Cody are spending the offseason, so far.  When they get back to Florida, I guessing they will spend the rest of it in the dog house.

All of that said, checkout the live blogging of the GM meetings.  Not much is going to happen, but it will give you and idea of what is to come in December.

The Marlins purchased the contract of Hayden Penn and now he is on the 40-Man roster.

The Marlins are planning on taking another look at right-hander Hayden Penn.

The team on Monday announced it had selected the contract of the 25-year-old, who spent most of the season at Triple-A New Orleans.

Florida's 40-man roster now stands at 34.

 I thought about this all night, and I still can't come with a reason for the Marlins to make this move now.  Not against the move per se, but if the Marlins want to move him off of it, he will once again have to clear waivers.  Which more than likely isn't a problem, but it still seems strange to me.  Something gives me the idea that I am missing something here.

Any thoughts?

Or at least will soon be.  Cameron Maybin's surgery by the press reports went fine.

Maybin, 22, underwent surgery to repair a partially torn labrum in his left shoulder. The team announced everything went well, and the speedster is expected to be ready when Spring Training opens in February.

Don't know what to expect from Maybin for the season, especially since he is so young, he can be a bit erratic. But is nice to know the doctors were able to put him back together.

The postseason awards as voted on by the SB Nation baseball bloggers rolls out today.  Each site is given two votes in their respective league, in this case GameFish and I are the voters for FishStripes, just like last year.  SB Nation awards in the past have been pretty decent predictors of the BBWAA awards, which may not say much about us as a group.

The votes are scored 5-3-1 for the ones where you only get to vote on three, like today's award, the Manager of the Year.

The schedule for the awards is as follows:

Monday, 11/9: Manager of the Year
Tuesday, 11/10: Rookie of the Year
Wednesday, 11/11: Cy Young
Thursday, 11/12: MVP

So without any further ado here are the results for the MOY:

Normally at this point I would tell you who we voted for, but they change up the voting this year and it was done by some Google app. instead of email and neither GameFish or I wrote down our selections.  However, we both think we put Tracy in the number one slot and Fredi number three.  Who we put as number two is anyone's guess.

Oh, they also email us the results of the AL and if you are curious about them, just let us know, and we will post those results too.

The General Managers Meetings start today in Chicago.  Not exactly sure where, but they generally don't get too far away from the airport.

The GMs Meetings last until November 11th.

Normally they will bring up stuff like expanding video replay which they will discuss for approximately five seconds and table the discussion.  The main point of the meetings is to start laying the ground work for the Winter Meetings.  Putting out feelers to see who is available and who is not, while trying to gauge what they may have to give up in the process.  After that, they go bowling.

I don't expect this one to any different, though I do imagine the phones will be ringing in the Marlins hotel room.

Joe Frisaro reported this over the weekend.

For years, the Marlins have shown they can remain competitive while spending carefully.

They will be continuing that trend in 2010.

Payroll for the upcoming season will be in the neighborhood of $36 million, or slightly lower.

In 2009, the Marlins finished second in the N.L. East, winning 87 games with a $36 million roster. So expect salaries to again to be in that range.

Don't know whether this is Mr. Frisaro's prediction or whether it is insider information which he is quite capable of having.

Last season the Marlins opening day payroll was $36,834,000.  In order to achieve that again it will mean that Uggla and Cantu have to be traded, along with others, since there is no way to achieve the number without doing so.  The ones who are arbitration eligible for the first time: Paulino, Nunez, Lindstrom and Pinto are likely to be some of the of the ones who will be among the others.

If the Marlins actually decide to stick with the $36 million number, it will become known to the other clubs that the Marlins are shedding payroll and looking for anything they can get in return that's cheap.  Uggla and Cantu, if traded, will bring back a decent prospect or two.  However, all the others will likely garner the return of Hermida, next to nothing since the other teams know what we are doing.

I will hit this harder later.

For those of you who didn't get to see the AFL Rising Stars Game on Saturday, and count me among those in the ranks,  of the two players the Marlins sent to the game, only one made an appearance.

If you will recall, Bryan Peterson and Matt Dominguez were the Marlins representatives.  Peterson got into the game in the fifth as a center field defensive replacement.  He did go 1 for 2 at the plate, hitting a single and stole a base.  Not a bad showing.  Unfortunately for Dominguez he didn't get to see time in the game.

Here is the box score: AFL East 7, AFL West 8