Feliz, Posey win Rookie of Year honors

And when he did it for the while six months as opposed to only four.

 

Which is a legitimate point. The age, however, is meaningless. If the player has rookie eligibility, his age shouldn't matter when considering him for this award. Experience perhaps should (see players coming from Japan, for example), but not age.

 

Just shocked there'd be some home cooking for a couple Pirate players. All you have to do is look at this board to see how balnced and fair Pittsburgh fans and reporters can be.

 

Well, that was an inappropriate little cheap shot. Seriously, one guy fills out a disgrace of a ballot and you're going to take a shot at every reporter in Pittsburgh?

 

It is not unheard of, though of course very wrong, for award voters to take one for the team and cast a vote they know won't affect the outcome in order to get a player on the team they cover a smidgen of recognition. It's not like Posey wasn't going to win anyway -- and he should have.

 

I think what's cheap is a reporter playing fanboi with his vote.

 

Gotta agreewith OOP here. Do we really need this shit all the time?

The right two guys won the awards. What else really matters?

 

I agree, but how about a reporter doing their job with some integrity.

 

Hammer away at Dejan all you like. He deserves it for this one. It's the other people you dragged in with that comment that don't deserve it.

 

I'm more shocked that he left Pedro Alvarez off his ballot than Heyward.

 

Dejan, who hadn't tweeted in two weeks, has taken to Twitter to defend himself with 17 tweets so far:

http://twitter.com/#!/Dejan_Kovacevic

 

The Walker one is less absurd when I thought once you posted the numbers - he gets credit for position.