There have been some very tough votes for PBA Player of the Year in recent years, most notably 2011-12 (when I voted for eventual winner Sean Rash over Jason Belmonte and Mike Fagan) and 2015 (when I voted for eventual winner Belmonte over Ryan Ciminelli). Belmonte’s historic win in the 2017 PBA World Championship — arguably the greatest TV show in PBA history, as I detailed in this story — made the vote for 2017 POY an easy one. Belmonte was the first player to win three...