Posted By Jeff Fletcher on September 14, 2009 7:33 pm

Today the writers presented Randy Winn with the Bill Rigney Good Guy Award, which goes annually to one player on the Giants and one on the A’s for his cooperation with the print media. The voting is done by Bay Area writers.

Funny thing about Winn is that he had always joked that he didn’t want to win the award, which we’d threatened to give him each of the past few years. In fact, last year we deked him by walking toward him with the award, only to do a quick turn toward Aaron Rowand.

Winn is one of our favorites because he’s always accomodating and usually pretty quotable. He knows what you are looking for when you come to him and he usually delivers. He won’t just give you a canned answer, though. He’s honest.

Past winners include Matt Cain, Rowand and Rich Aurilia. Oddly enough, Aurilia may be a two-time winner. I say “may be” because there’s a little controversy over that. See, we weren’t that great about record-keeping on this award for the first few years we gave it out. When we tried to recreate the winners a few years ago to put them all on a perpetual plaque, the best we could come up with was that Jeff Kent had won in 2000. (Yeah, I know what you’re thinking, but Kent was actually a pretty good guy with the writers earlier in his career.) Aurilia, though, claims that he won in 2000 an d 20003, and he’s got the trophies at home. Heck, the fact that even kept them, rather than throwing them in the trash, tells me that he’s really a good guy.

Anyway, he says he’s going to send a picture of the 2000 award. We’ll get it straightened out.

I’ll post the A’s winner after we present the award to him, probably next week.