It’s back to the ethical and moral grind of hard analysis on MLB Monday today, as another cheating team won the World Series in a pretty shocking display of fraud. This means at least two of our awards analyses are compromised, due to MLB’s enablement of corruption in the name of greed. Thanks, Bud Selig! Anyway, we do our best with revisionist analysis here to put the hardware in the hands of the honest.

2012 World Series MVP: Pablo Sandoval, 3B, San Francisco (original); Sergio Romo, RP, San Francisco (revised)

The San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers in the Fall Classic, and third baseman Pablo Sandoval won the MVP vote. Of course, we’ve tagged him for PED use with damning statistical analysis, so that isn’t happening, and it will be a challenge to find a player on this roster who is not suspected of cheating. Wish us luck? Indeed. Interestingly, Sandoval was the only hitter with an OPS over .800 in this matchup. Weird!

So, what about the pitching staff? Well, in a sweep, no starters got enough innings, and the best clean player we can come up with is again the closer: Sergio Romo (3 saves, 0.00 ERA, 0.000 WHIP). Can’t get much better than that, of course. We also know Romo is a good guy, with his frequent trips to local pediatric oncology wards, so we are happy to be able to give this hardware to a decent human being in a Giants uni.

2012 ALCS MVP: Delmon Young, DH, Detroit (original, confirmed)

The Tigers swept the New York Yankees to advance to the Series, where they had to wait around for almost a week to play (sound familiar and convenient for cheaters to prosper?). Detroit designated hitter Delmon Young (2 HRs, 6 RBI, 1.186 OPS) won the MVP vote, and we are going to confirm this without much discussion. Young topped the Tigers in HRs and RBI in the matchup, and that’s good enough for us, really.

2012 NLCS MVP: Marco Scutaro, IF, San Francisco (original); Barry Zito, SP, San Francisco (revised)

The Giants came back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the St. Louis Cardinals and win another tainted pennant, thanks to the fraudulent efforts of infielder Marco Scutaro, who won the MVP vote. But again, we’ve already demonstrated his dishonesty after a midseason trade from Colorado to The House that Steroids Built. So where do we go from there? Well, first baseman Brandon Belt played well in the seven gamer.

However, despite not making an error, his defense was so bad that he actually posted a negative WPA mark. That’s not going to fly. Three of the four wins were notched by starting pitchers we’ve already tagged for PED probability (Matt Cain, Ryan Vogelsong), so we look to the bullpen again, as no clean hitters had a decent series worth noting. And the top reliever is also a PED suspect (Jeremy Affeldt). It never ends here.

That leaves us with a one-start pitcher (Barry Zito) or a no-save reliever (Romo) to choose from: dilemmas! We’re going to go with Zito, since his one start was Game 5 on the road—a must-win situation for the Giants. And Zito delivered the best start of his entire S.F. stint, really, throwing 7 2/3 innings of shutout baseball to change the entire momentum of the matchup. Romo only pitched 3 1/3 innings, so this is correct.

2012 AL MOTY: Bob Melvin, Oakland (original); Buck Showalter, Baltimore (revised)

The winner of the vote here was Oakland Athletics Manager Bob Melvin (plus-2 PPP), who led his team to its first playoff spot since 2006—and he did it with a rotation of rookie starters, really. However, this award really should go to Baltimore Orioles Manager Buck Showalter (plus-11), who clearly turned in the best effort in the league in leading his team to its first playoff berth since 1997. That PPP mark is crazy amazing.

This is Showalter’s second trophy, as he won it in 1994 as well. He basically took a .500 team and turned it into a playoff team, winning a wild-card berth with just 3 games to spare over division rival Tampa Bay. our hat is off to this effort, for sure.

2012 NL MOTY: Davey Johnson, Washington (original, confirmed)

Washington Nationals Manager Davey Johnson (plus-2 PPP) won the vote, although two other managers of division-winning teams posted plus-6 marks. Perhaps the voters just thought getting the Nats franchise to the postseason for the first time since 1981 (!) was an achievement in itself. Fair, and we don’t ignore facts, but both of the plus-6 managers actually are well known for their PED enabling, so that makes this easy.

This is Johnson’s third MOTY win from us (1984, 1997), which puts him in rare air. And for the record, you can see how much simpler it was for us to evaluate the two awards without cheaters involved. Just deplorable, really, how MLB let itself get taken over by greed and corruption in the last 30 years or so since Bud Selig took control of the sport with his commissioner’s coup.