Heyward Named SBN NL ROY

by gondeee on Nov 15, 2010 8:42 PM EST

After losing out on the BBWAA Rookie of the Year, the bloggers of SB Nation have named Jason Heyward their NL Rookie of the Year, echoing the sentiment of Baseball America, who also chose Heyward over Buster Posey. Here are the results:

Rookie	1st	2nd	3rd	Points
Heyward	20	11		133
Posey	12	18	2	116
Garcia		1	12	15
Castro		1	3	6
Stanton			6	6
Sanchez		1	2	5
Davis			4	4
Hudson			1	1
Johnson			1	1
Chacin			1	1

While this is just another award, and one way down the importance scale, it does reflect what a more sabermetrically inclined group think about who was a better rookie. Endless arguments can be made, but as a homer, I'm on the side of Heyward, clearly.

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BUT WHERE IS NEIL WALKER?!

And for the record, here’s my ballot from yesterday:

ROY:
Heyward
Posey
Garcia

Cy Young:
Halladay
Wainwright
Johnson
Hudson
Jimenez

MVP:
Votto
Pujols
C. Gonzalez
Zimmerman
Holliday
Tulowitzki
Huff
A. Gonzalez
McCann
Weeks

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by Scott Coleman on Nov 15, 2010 8:50 PM EST reply actions

we have someone else

on our side.

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2010/11/15/1815802/posey-won-the-nl-roy-the-bbwaa-sucks#comments

Bobby's gone...but Fredi's back!

by hawves on Nov 15, 2010 11:48 PM EST reply actions

Well

Thats not really BTB agreeing. Thats a tweet by Peter Hjort, a huge braves fan who runs his own braves blog and also posts here.

"If I have asthma, they won't let me scuba. And if I can’t scuba, then what’s this all been about?? What am I working toward??"

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by Doghnut on Nov 16, 2010 7:24 AM EST up reply actions

The only problem I have with WAR/AB and some other sabermetric stats

positional production degrades as the year continues, but different positions degrade at different, undetermined, logarithmic rates. All these stats assume linear progression (and therefore regression), and that’s a problem. A cool project would be to determine the average degradation in production for each position- I’d bet money Catchers win that sucker.

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"The greatest sin is to spurn the gift"- Coach Alistair

by Londonjoe on Nov 17, 2010 12:40 AM EST up reply actions