SBN Awards: Rookie of the Year Preface

by R.J. Anderson on Oct 14, 2008 2:00 PM EDT

This week we actually begin the merit awards, yay.

There's a few rather obvious choices, but no sense in discussing them now considering the SBN baseball blogs will be making their cases over the next few days.

My question is simply this: if baseball were to do a sophomore of the year award, who wins it?

Elsewhere...

Federal Baseball on their NL ROY choice.

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i'm curious how people vote for this award

I think the most popular approach is to pick the rookie who had the best season, without regard to “value”. But I think some people pick the rookie with the brighest future, eschewing players who appear to be one-year flukes in favor of better prospects who might not have played a whole season. I’m in camp one.

As for sophomore of the year, Dustin Pedroia?

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by Sky Kalkman on Oct 14, 2008 2:16 PM EDT reply actions

One award, or many?

If we’re going NL/AL, Lincecum would have to be the NL choice I think.

If you wanted to break it down to hitters and pitchers in each league, maybe something like this:

NL: Lincecum and Braun
AL: Danks and Pedroia

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by marcello on Oct 14, 2008 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions

Out of curiosity,

who would you have given the NL RoY award to last season? I think we should know where I stand, based on part of my signature, but I do understand why many chose Braun to be the RoY.

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by Russ Oates on Oct 14, 2008 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions

It was Tulo last year and it wasn't really that close.

Of course, you could the same thing about Braun for SoY.

All good choices by marcello.

It’s amusing to me that Delmon Young finished second last year in the AL, put up the same season this year, and is suddenly seen (correctly) as a poor player.

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by Sky Kalkman on Oct 14, 2008 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Perdoia is probably the right choice

But Josh Hamilton deserves serious consideration too, no?

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by thedirkatron on Oct 14, 2008 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Lincecum's the clear choice in the NL,

though I think Volquez’s season was less expected.

In the AL, I’ll take Dice-K’s 50-point jump in ERA+ over Pedrioa’s 11-point boost in OPS+

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by scatterbrian on Oct 14, 2008 3:34 PM EDT reply actions

Japanese pros who never played in the minors should be ineligible for those awards

Not because of any animosity, just because they’ve already been playing at the highest level available to them for many years. It violates the spirit of the award.

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by PaulThomas on Oct 14, 2008 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions

oh I don't think they should be eligible for ROY either,

but this is a hypothetical “award” that has no “spirit” to it.

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by scatterbrian on Oct 14, 2008 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions

I'll take a whole lot of players over Daisuke's overrated ERA; his skills just aren't that impressive

And I don’t think that improvement from 2007 to 2008 is a good criterium for best sophomore season. Pedroia was already good. This year he was very good thanks to an increase in power and better fielding numbers.

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by Sky Kalkman on Oct 14, 2008 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions

"And I don’t think that improvement from 2007 to 2008 is a good criterium for best sophomore season."

What would you use then?

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by scatterbrian on Oct 14, 2008 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions