NL & AL Rookies of the Year

Who's going to win, they will be announced today

I believe both are no brainers and both should be unanimous choices.

NL- Soto

AL- Longoria

Agreed

lol agreed

Yeah, there shouldn't be any surprises here.

When ESPN's "experts" unanimously pick one of the awards, and come damn close to unanimously picking the other (shame on the two that picked Alexei Ramirez!), you know it's obvious.

I say

AL: Longoria
NL: Soto, but Votto has been overlooked

Longoria and Soto will win, but Votto and Ramirez should take some votes away from both.

Poor Votto... he picked a bad time to be a rookie.

As expected.

Longoria won unanimously. Alexei Ramirez placed 2nd, Jacoby Ellsbury 3rd, and Mike Aviles and Armando Galarraga were tired for fourth.

Soto got 31 of the 32 first place votes (Votto got the other 1st place vote). Votto was second, and Jair Jurrjens was third. For some reason, the BBWAA allowed the 3 second-place votes to Edinson Volquez to count, even though he was NOT a rookie, and Volquez, not a rookie, placed 4th in the Rookie of the Year voting. :rolleyes: As Rotoworld said, apparently nobody in the BBWAA cares to make sure that the writers turn in legal ballots.

Poor Volquez. Maybe he'll do better and win next year. :)

I thought he wasn't eligible. :confused:

Oops, didn't notice the 'ROY thread'. I found my answer there. :)

It is simple, the BBWA is idiotic

Merged the threads.

And yeah, the BBWAA just doesn't care if its voters follow the rules, apparantly.

Full NL results - James Loney also got a vote despite not being close to being eligible. Oddly enough, the disclaimer that Edinson Volquez received votes despite not being eligible wasn't also put on James Loney.

EDIT: Loney was actually MLB.com's mistake. He did not receive any votes. MLB.com made an error in including him in the table. From BaseballThinkFactory:

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Loney finished seventh (tied for sixth with Yunel Escobar, actually) last year, with one third place vote. Whoever compiled that table just replaced the top six rows with this year's six vote-getters and accidentally left Loney's row in there.

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EDIT2: And they've now fixed the Loney error.

Full AL results - Surprise! Everybody that got votes was actually eligible!

LOL @ Keith Law's blog entry:

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Edinson Volquez appears on three NL Rookie of the Year ballots, even though he’s not a rookie. It wasn’t even something esoteric like the days-on-the-roster rule; he threw 80 innings for Texas prior to 2008, and the cutoff is 50.

I think the truth about my rejected membership is that I failed the board’s intelligence test - I have some.

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Oh and A+ to this comment on that entry:

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What’s worse: that he appeared on three ballots or that those three (thinking he was actually eligible) didn’t vote him first?

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