This is the fifth NL voting period after eight in the books. The MLB Blog Poll votes on the MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of Year candidates in each league throughout the regular baseball season. In doing so, you get a cumulative snapshot of the award winners, instead of the single vote. Previous blog poll results and voter comments can be found at the links below the fold.

N.L. MVP Voting:

1. Lance Berkman - 35%
2. Chase Utley - 33%
3. Chipper Jones - 25%
4. Albert Pujols - 3%
5. Pat Burrell - 2%
6. Derrek Lee, Edinson Volquez, Hanley Ramirez - 1%

N.L. Cy Young Voting: 

1. Edinson Volquez - 44%
2. Tim Lincecum - 28%
3. Brandon Webb - 22%
4. Carlos Zambrano - 4%
5. Aaron Cook, Ryan Dempster, Ben Sheets -1%

N.L. Rookie of the Year Voting:

1. Geovany Soto - 48%
2. Joey Votto - 21%
3. Kosuke Fukodome - 14%
4. Jay Bruce - 8%
5. Jair Jurrjens - 6%
6. Blake DeWitt - 3%

Tim@ RotoRob - When players like Hanley Ramirez and Albert Pujols can't crack the top three, you know some players are having truly spectacular years.- Soto, Votto, Fuku, oh my! The biggest question for ROY is whether or not Jay Bruce will eventually undo Soto's tight grasp on the award.

The eggheads can argue sustainability all they want, but Edison Volquez' season can't be overlooked.- Evan Brunell Fire Brand of the American League

Brandon Heikoop - Baseball Digest Daily

MVP:
1. 1B Lance Berkman, HOU: There are eight people with OPS' over 1.000, and only one is in the AL (Milton Bradley). Berkman's the cream of the crop.
2. 3B Chipper Jones, ATL: Dude is still hitting over .400 and he's at .420 now. I still don't think he can possibly make it, but he has an outside chance of making the All-Star Break with an over .400 average.
3. 2B Chase Utley, PHI: It's hard to imagine someone with 21 homers and a .311/.398/.649 line bringing up the rear, but there you have it.

Cy Young:
1. SP Edison Volquez, CIN: There's no stopping him. He has a 1.56 ERA and simply isn't slowing down.
2. SP Brandon Webb, ARI: Pacing the circuit in wins, there's no shame in being a full point behind Volquez in ERA. He's still good.
3. SP Tim Lincecum, SF: The Giants are surprisingly hanging around and aren't the worst team in the majors. Timmy's a big reason why.

Rookie of the Year:
1. C Geovany Soto, CHC: Soto continues to pace the NL's best team as the next great catcher.
2. SP Jair Jurrjens, ATL: The Braves have problems, but Jurrjens is helping keep them afloat, turning in an impressive year.
3. 1B Joey Votto, CIN: Cincinnati has a lot of young hitters, and Votto's taken the 1B job and ran with it.- As a Mets fan I would rather stick a screwdriver in my eye than vote for Utley and Larry Jones but I have to be objective here and vote for who is MVP worthy. Edison Volquez is channeling his inner Bob Gibson circa 1968 and has been dominating Brad Lidge just missed getting my third place vote for Cy Young. I know Chicgao is flush with Fukedome Fever but I had to give the phenom Jay Bruce my third place ROY vote.

Previous results

Week 1 AL Vote
Week 2 NL Vote
Week 3 AL Vote
Week 4 NL Vote
Week 5 AL Vote
Week 6 NL Vote
Week 8 NL Vote
Week 9 AL Vote

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