Ramirez, Verlander ROYs

[Frayed Knot]

Florida SS Hanley Ramirez (the main bait in the Josh Becket to Boston deal) wins the NL Rookie of the Year award by a narrow margin over National's 3B Ryan Zimmerman.
6 Marlins got at least 1 3rd place vote.

	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Total
Ramirez(Fla)	14	11	2	105
Zimmerman(Was)	10	16	3	101
Uggla(Fla)	6	3	16	55
J. Johnson(Fla)	2	0	1	11
Cain(SF)	0	1	1	4
Ethier(LA)	0	1	1	4
Fielder(Milw)	0	0	2	2
Saito(LA)	0	0	2	2
Martin(LA)	0	0	1	1
Olsen(Fla)	0	0	1	1
Sanchez(Fla)	0	0	1	1
Willingham(Fla)	0	0	1	1

[Frayed Knot]

Tiger pitcher Justin Verlander (picked one slot ahead of Philip Humber in the amateur draft) wins the AL award in a romp.

	1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place	Total
Verlander(Det)	26	1	0	133
Papelbon(Bos)	0	20	3	63
Liriano(Minn)	1	3	16	30
Jojima(Sea)	0	2	4	10
Weaver(LAA)	0	2	2	8
Markakis(Balt)	1	0	2	7
Kinsler(Tex)	0	0	1	1

[Guest Edgy DC]

Florida, it seemed, had four good candidates, but I guess Mike Jabobs was disqualified by service time since he got no support.

[Frayed Knot]

No, only 100 ABs in '05 so he was still eligible.
Just didn't make anyone's top 3. Bad 2nd half doomed any shot he had.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I was thinking his time on the 2005 roster may have disqualified him apart from his at-bat total.

[HahnSolo]

Edited out my stupidity.

[Frayed Knot]

]I was thinking his time on the 2005 roster may have disqualified him apart from his at-bat total

No, because remember he didn't come up until late August.
He got all his ABs as a pretty much full-time player.
Very little sitting on the bench once he got his foot in the door.

[Frayed Knot]

HahnSolo wrote: How many voters? B/c it looks like Ramirez was named on 27 ballots, Zimmerman on 29, and Uggla on 25.

2 writers per city that has a team; so 32 in the NL, 28 in the AL

Each voter lists his 1st, 2nd & 3rd choice and points are awarded on a 5-3-1 basis