Esurance runner-up pool on par with finalists

When considering the overwhelming number of deserving potential entries in the running for this year’s Esurance MLB Awards, a panel of experts was presented with agonizing choices. Trimming long lists of contenders for each category down to a group of finalists is never easy, after all, so while we wait to see who gets the ultimate honor in each category, here’s a space in which we can honor the best of the rest.