AL- NL Rookie of the Year

[metirish]

Buster Posey is the winner......Ike davis gets two third place votes...best Mets showing since????

http://bbwaa.com/2010/11/2010-rookies/#alroy

Neftali Feliz WINS IN THE al

[Valadius]

Best showing probably since Jay Payton.

[metirish]

Valadius wrote: Best showing probably since Jay Payton.

Bingo....

[Ceetar]

no Strasburg votes? heh.

Good job by Posey, since Heyward was the favorite from about March 10th. Ike's midseason slump hurt (not that he had a chance) but he wasn't that far off Heyward. a dozen or so walks and half a dozen hits were probably the difference. Davis actually slugged better. Surprised Garcia didn't get more votes, and I suspect they heavily favored playoff teams here.

[Frayed Knot]

NAME	1st	2nd	3rd	Points
POSEY	20	9	2	129
HEYWARD	9	20	2	107
GARCIA	1	1	16	24
SANCHEZ	2	1	5	18
WALKER	0	1	0	3
CASTRO	0	0	3	3
DAVIS	0	0	2	2
TABATA	0	0	1	1
VENTERS	0	0	1	1

So at least 3 writers thought that Walker & Sanchez were better than one or both of Posey & Heyward?
Yeah ... OK.

[Frayed Knot]

NAME	1st	2nd	3rd	Points
FELIZ	20	7	1	122
JACKSON	8	19	1	98
VALENCIA	0	1	9	12
DAVIS	0	0	11	11
JASO	0	1	0	3
BOESCH	0	0	3	3
MATUSZ	0	0	3	3

[Gwreck]

Trivia Time:

Name the 5 most recent Mets (other than the aforementioned Davis and Payton) to get Rookie of the Year Award Voting Points:

2010 - Ike Davis - 2 Points
2000 - Jay Payton - 37 Points

Isringhausen - 4 points, 1995 Lunchbucket
??? - 3 points
Wigginton - 1 point, 2003 Edgy
??? - 1 point
??? - 1 point

Edited November 15, 2010 by Guest

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Baby Rey.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yoshii
Ordonez
Isringhausen
Hundley
Burnitz

[Gwreck]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yoshii Ordonez Isringhausen Hundley Burnitz

Only Isringhausen is correct, 4 points in 1995.

[Gwreck]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Baby Rey.

Wrong

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wigginton.

[metirish]

Wright?....or did he not qualify?

[Gwreck]

Edgy DC wrote: Wigginton.

Correct! 1 point (ie. 1 third-place vote) in 2003.

[Gwreck]

metirish wrote: Wright?....or did he not qualify?

Wright's rookie year was 2004 but he got no ROY votes.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Frayed Knot wrote: So at least 3 writers thought that Walker & Sanchez were better than one or both of Posey & Heyward? Yeah ... OK.

32 voters, so, doing the math... two left them off completely (only 31 voters had each of them on the ballot).

Good work, Messrs. Kikuchi and Kovacevic (the latter, a Pirate beat writer, pencilled in both of the Pirate votes).

[metsmarathon]

reyes

huskey

matsui

[metsmarathon]

ordonez got 7 points in '96

[HahnSolo]

Shinjo.

[Gwreck]

Hmmm. My apologies to LWFS for the Rey Ordonez, my source on this was clearly incorrect.
Matsui and Reyes are correct.
Huskey is incorrect.
Other answer we were looking for was Bobby Jones, 1994.


Davis - 2 points, 2010
Payton - 37 points, 2000
Ordonez, 6 points, 1997 LWFS
Isringhausen - 4 points, 1995 Lunchbucket
Bobby Jones - 3 points, 1994
Wigginton - 1 point, 2003 Edgy
Reyes - 1 point, 2003 metsmarathon
Matsui- 1 point, 2004 metsmarathon

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

How the living hell did Kaz Matsui get a vote? David Wright outproduced/equaled his counting-stat production in just over half the PAs the same year.

[G-Fafif]

Ceetar wrote: no Strasburg votes?

Thus making Stephen Strasburg the first player in major league history to earn presumed induction into the Hall of Fame before Rookie of the Year balloting could kick in.

Speaking of Cooperstown gunjumping, Gregg Jefferies remains, as far as I can tell, the only player to win Rookie of the Year votes in two consecutive seasons, with a late, giddy surge in 1988 and a best of the rest in 1989.

[G-Fafif]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: How the living hell did Kaz Matsui get a vote? David Wright outproduced/equaled his counting-stat production in just over half the PAs the same year.

Matsui homered on the very pitch he saw on Opening Night and at least one writer said, "I've seen enough," and sent in his ballot.