Kirk Trivia

[Edgy MD]

Kirk Niuwenhuis has a damn good chance to win the coveted National League Rookie of the Month Award.

OK, it's not very coveted... or even... known, but it's apparently been around for 11 years, but has decorated the r�sum� of only one Met.

Name that lone Met who Kirk may perhaps join. Bonus points for naming the month and year.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Justin Turner...

June 2011?

[metsmarathon]

kaz matsui

april 2003 (or whenever the right year is)

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Justin Turner... June 2011?

Wow. First guess. May 2011, but close enough for me.

I would have guessed Jae Weong Seo.

It would be fun if they qualified the term "rookie" for the purposes of that award, to mean, rather than players who have garnered no more than X appearances prior to that season, but players who have garnered no more than X appearances prior to that month. So as you can only qualify for and win the Rookie of the Year award in one season, so you could only qualify for and win the Rookie of the Month award in a single month. They'd have some spectacularly obscure winners.

[HahnSolo]

Daniel Murphy, August 2008.

edit: oops.

[Benjamin Grimm]

NL Rookie of the Month for April was Wade Miley of Arizona.