National League Rookie of the Year

I'm completely shocked that Russ Martin of the Dodgers, who plays a very demanding position, was in every day at age 23 after he was called up, whose team got to the playoffs, who was a total sparkplug, and put up thoroughly good numbers for a catcher who's also good defensively (since when do we look at numbers in a vacuum?) merited nothing more than one third-place vote.


I swear people don't pay attention sometimes, just because the Dodgers games start late.

 

Witness the Howard-Pujols discussion for all you need to know about these voters ignoring defense in overall awards, and rewarding offense for defensive awards.

 

Branch Rickey's fault. He's the one who decided to move them out there. East Coast writers have to sleep sometime ...

 

Would you have voted for him top 3? Who are your other 2?

 

The third-place vote was too high, but he deserved some peripheral representation.

 

Even worse than that were the two or three blithering idiots who didn't have either Zimmerman or Ramirez on their ballots. What the hell kind of games were they watching?

 

There are only 3 spots on the ballot? How? He was good enough that someone should have been wrong enough to mistakenly vote for him?

 

In another year, Martin could have won. But this was a very good group of rookies and he's definitely not in the top three.

 

Honestly. Those people must be steel-booted from their voting cards.

 

Agreed, he's better than Hollandsworth, but not as good as Weaver in the AL. Just not sure what you wanted from the voters.

 

I thought there were more spots on the ballot.

There is no universe where he deserved a top three vote.

 

Like here. Because you know Ramirez sure didn't win ROY for his defense.