AL & NL Rookie of the Year Poll

Yes, let's just give every player from Boston or New York a degree of difficulty. That way, they can always win ROY despite what the numbers from the entire season say.

 

Numbskull.

If you don't think it is easier to pitch in KC, you have a screw loose.

 

So you're saying it's easier to come in and pitch when your team is on a losing streak and have to be the one to snap that skid almost every time out?

You're saying Royals pitchers have a bigger strike zone that the boys from the Yanks and BoSox?

 

Would you rather pitch with a lineup that has Ortiz, Ramirez, Youkilis, Lowell, Pedroia, Varitek, etc.

OR pitch with a lineup that includes DeJesus, Grudzielanek, Teahen, Sweeney,Gload, Butler, Garbage Man, Pena, Buck?

And just for shits and giggles, did you know that for most of the season, Brian Bannister led the American League in fewest runs in support per start?

Yeah, pitching with that power-filled, all-star lineup in Kansas City is a cakewalk compared to pitching in Boston with all stars at half the positions.

 

Quite possibly the dumbest argument I have ever heard. So now, players in Boston and New York get 1 1/2 votes for every vote a K.C. player gets, because more reporters are at their locker after a game.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

By the way, Jeff Passan weighed in. He picks Bannister by an eyelash over Pedroia.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AtFZyOUlUPWBwWMJizvJiqERvLYF?slug=jp-alroy090207&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

 

If you disavow that it is greater pressure to play there, then it is a flaw in your cranium, not mine.

 

What's a bigger story, Hamilton coming back from 26 tattoos, or Ankiel coming back from his backstop blues?

 

Simon has this figured out. Since there are about a jillion statistics out there already, let's start a new one.

East-coast adjustment factor.

The ECAF, dreamed up by the east-coast snobs, states that .075 points be added to batting average and 1.00 should be dropped from ERA automatically for all Yankees and Red Sox players, because Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium generally sells out its games and ESPN execs have 24 hour hard-ons for these teams.

With this in consideration, we'd like to express our support for Dustin Pedroia as he chases the elusive .400 this month. It is an honor to watch him play. We'd also like to express our awe over Okajima's 0.56 ERA. You'd think this was high school girls' softball with that ERA.

 

I guess my point is, if you need to use the pressure-in-Boston argument to explain why you think a Red Sox player should win the award, you don't have much of an argument.

 

Don't forget the love the Dodgers get on the OTHER coast.

 

He's not even the ROY on his team, but 174 K's is a nice number for your first year.

 

I think Hamilton's 26 tattoos (or his battle with drug addiction) is a great story, being that he went from the top of baseball to drugs to being out of the game to where he is now. As is Ankiel's, only with a huge twist. He overcame psychological issues and learned a brand new position and is contributing to the Cardinals' playoff chase in a big way. While Hamilton's is an impressive tale, Ankiel's is so rare that it gets the edge, in my opinion.