Craig Kimbrel Named The Sporting News NL Rookie of the Year

by gondeee on Oct 26, 2011 10:46 AM EDT

As the title says, Atlanta Braves closer Craig Kimbrel has been named the Sporting News National League Rookie of the Year for 2011.

This is not THE Rookie of the Year Award, but it's the second big one. It's actually the Rookie of the Year award that Jason Heyward won last year, though he didn't win the ROY given out by the Baseball Writers Association, which is considered THE award. Of course, Kimbrel should win the other ROY as well. Those voting results won't be released until after the World Series.

Voting for Sporting News' 2011 baseball awards was done by major league players, managers and front office executives. Ballots were distributed to all 30 teams, and 289 players, 55 executives and 23 managers participated in the voting.

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2011 - Craig Kimbrel	4-3	79	0	0	0	46	7	77.0	48	19	18	3	32	127	2.10	1.04

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Congratulations to Craig!

He deserves it!!

by FourScore199 on Oct 26, 2011 10:49 AM EDT reply actions

Didn't see that coming

I kid, I really saw that coming.

Well deserved for the Rook. Amazing somehow doesn’t seem fitting for this guys first year as a closer. So dominant.

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by Bronn on May 17, 2011 4:56 PM EDT

by Sparhawk on Oct 26, 2011 11:00 AM EDT reply actions

Well-deserved

Congrats Craig!

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by DolphinNation on Oct 26, 2011 11:08 AM EDT reply actions

Congrats to Craig.

I voted for him in the Beyond The Boxscore awards and the Internet Baseball Awards, so I think he’s deserving. Though there were a lot of good rookies this year.

I hope Craig wins the BWAA award too, but I don’t think he’s a shoo-in. I think his late-season struggles will overshadow his rest-of-season dominance for enough voters that it’ll be close. Also, there’s a chance of vote-splitting with him and Beachy and Freeman.

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by Jacob Peterson on Oct 26, 2011 11:43 AM EDT reply actions

Congrats to Craig.

He deserves to win, those stats are absolutely disgusting. Best of luck to him in the “THE” ROY award.

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by Rocketmann on Oct 26, 2011 12:09 PM EDT reply actions

Congrats to Kimbrel

Too bad he didn’t look like the ROY the last month of season though but whatever. He was the most deserving candidate and I’m sure he will learn from his final month and become even stronger next season!

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by deewill23 on Oct 27, 2011 3:22 AM EDT reply actions