It's a joke, really. We all know it is.
Wilshere has come on well, fair play, but Bale... you can count on one hand the games in which he's played anything better than decent.
These awards should go to players who have performed consistently, to a high standard. No one can really match Baines in that department. He's got the most assists in Europe for a defender, Dani Alves aside (hardly a fair comparison when Barca have scored about 3x more than us, and he plays more as a winger).
If Baines played for United, Liverpool, or just about any media darling, he'd have won. As it stands, he didn't even make the list, and that says it all. It's a farce; these things always are.