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The envelopes please: time to hand out baseball’s postseason awards for American, National leagues

No decisions bring as much social-media anger as the voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

The air has turned cooler. The leaves are starting to turn. And baseball fans on Twitter prepare for all-caps responses to members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, calling them condescending baseball elitists, simple-minded hacks or sabermetric-reliant geeks that spend too much time looking at stats no one has heard of.

It’s become a tradition at the end of each season.

On Sunday, chosen writers from local BBWAA chapters in the cities of each MLB team will vote on awards such as MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year and Manager of the Year in the respective leagues they cover.