CLEVELAND, Ohio — For the second time in as many years, cleveland.com Guardians beat reporter Paul Hoynes, has again been named a finalist for one of the most prestigious awards in baseball media.
Hoynes, whose impeccable reputation for covering breaking news, combined with insightful reporting and storytelling regarding professional baseball,
has covered the game for more than four decades
in Cleveland.
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Covering the Indians and now Guardians since 1983, Hoynes has spent virtually all of that time working for The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com. He was named to the ballot for the Baseball Writers’ Association of America Career Excellence Award during the association’s annual meeting ahead of Tuesday’s All-Star Game.
Hoynes, 74, is joined on the ballot by Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer Tom Verducci and the late Scott Miller of The New York Times and Bleacher Report. Last year, retired Washington Post columnist Tom Boswell won the award with 167 of 394 votes cast, while Hoynes finished with 158.
The Career Excellence Award, formerly named the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, has been voted upon by members annually since 1962 and recognizes an individual or group for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. Award recipients are announced at the Major League Baseball winter meetings in December and are recognized during Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown, New York, each year.
Hoynes has broken stories of trades, signings, extensions and more during his time on the beat. He has covered more than a dozen Cleveland managers and kept pace with teams that lost 100 games in a single season. He has also provided depth and insight in his reporting on Cleveland clubs that reached the playoffs 15 times, including three trips to the World Series.
His weekly “Hey, Hoynsie!” column has provided answers to the burning questions Indians and Guardians fans have posed for more than 20 years. And through it all, “Hoynsie” has conducted himself with the same affable nature and positive energy that makes him a favorite among managers, players and press box regulars alike.
A 2013 inductee into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame, Hoynes again has a chance to join his friend and longtime colleague Sheldon Ocker of the Akron Beacon Journal, who won the award in 2018. He would become the fourth writer from the BBWAA Cleveland Chapter to earn the award along with Gordon Cobbledick (1978) and Hal Lebovitz (2000).
