Atlanta Braves Outfielder Jason Heyward Beaten Out By Buster Posey For NL Rookie Of The Year

Either for first or second. I don’t get the Sanchez votes for first—-although he had a good rookie year (and would be an easy winner last year) he was just a bit below Heyward and Posey in pretty much everything.

From a statistical standpoint, it’s hard to argue Heyward wasn’t better. He was a 5.0 WAR player compared to Posey’s 3.9. And that takes Posey’s positional advantage into account.

I believe voters aren’t supposed to take post-season into account, but Imagine it was difficult for them to ignore Posey’s giants beating Heward’s braves in the playoffs, and then going on to win the world series.

Personally, it was hard for me to get past the fact that Posey played catcher and batted cleanup for a championship team. But even so, I think I would have voted for Heyward. He had a better regular season.

There’s another guy on our team who was 2nd in ROY voting. If Heyward ends up as good as him, I think we’ll be alright.

I wanted Heyward to get this award as much as everyone. But now that it’s gone, all we can do is look forward to him carrying this team and winning world series rings and MVPs for many years to come. In the end, ROY doesn’t affect HOF voting (getting way ahead of myself but its true. When chippers name goes on the ballot, no one is gonna say “well he didnt win ROY….”). Hanson was probably the best rookie last year and he got beaten by chris coglan or however u spell his forgettable name, and Happ who I thought was the only other real candidate but still not as good as Hanson. But then again, we had to endure that loss because Hanson didnt play from day 1 like the other guys. Now we lose to someone who didnt play from day 1. This feels like the Darren McFadden heisman all over again! we know these sports writers are idiots (not to say that posey winning is idiotic, but realistically heywards .393 OBP as a 20/21 yr old dominates a .357 by a 22/23 yr old, i dont care what position he plays), so we will just have to let it go. In my biased opinion, Posey had an awesome rookie year, but not as awesome as Heywards. And if Heyward didnt get hurt, there wouldnt be a contest. But he did get hurt, there was a contest, and Posey won. Congrats Posey, see you in the playoffs next year *my prediction is we win this time =) *

He deserves it, he had a great season.

Freddie Freeman for 2011 ROY

Julio Teheran for 2012 ROY

Can’t decide on 2013, Lipka or Salcedo?

Obviously, since I’m a Giant’s fan I wanted Posey to win.

That being said, I believe that they were pretty much so statistically close that it was pretty much a coinflip. Most likely the reason that Posey gets the nod is because it is so hard to quantify how valuable catchers are to the pitching staff statistically, so he may have gotten an unfair bump over Heyward by a lot of writers.

I find it hilarious that two writers didn’t have either of these guys on their ballot. It just goes to show not to value these meaningless awards too much. You obviously want your guy to finish with some recognition, but when a judges can pick two clearly inferior home-team rookies it’s hard to really give much value to these writer’s opinions.

I posted this somewhere else

Posey: on base 154 times
Heyward: on base 235 times

I would also like to point out that basically the opposite of this result happened last year when Happ finished ahead of Hanson, probably because of being around for the entire season. The difference there is that Hanson was actually more valuable than Happ in a shorter amount of time, unlike Posey.

Hideo Nomo (1995 ROY), 12 seasons: 123-109 ERA 4.24, 1976.1 IP, 1918 SO, 908 BB, 1.354 WHIP, 98 ERA+. (1995 AS, 2 SO Leader, 2 CY consideration)

Chipper Jones (1995 ROY runner up), 17 seasons so far: .306/.405/.536/.941, 2490 H, 493 2B, 436 HR, 1491 RBI, 1505 R, 1404 BB, 142 OPS+. (1999 MVP, 2008 Batting and OBP Title, 2007 OPS Title, 6 ASG, 2 Silver Sluggers, 11 MVP consideration) 14 games with XBH streak