September 12, 201312 yr Finally got his hazing, eh? All rookies are being hazed on the flight to NY. I wish I could go to LGA and witness their arrival.
September 12, 201312 yr Finally got his hazing, eh? All rookies are being hazed on the flight to NY. I wish I could go to LGA and witness their arrival. Going to any games this weekend?
September 12, 201312 yr Finally got his hazing, eh? All rookies are being hazed on the flight to NY. I wish I could go to LGA and witness their arrival. Going to any games this weekend? Nope, I can't. Hopefully next season I can catch a few. Maybe we can do a little MB gathering for one even.
September 12, 201312 yr Finally got his hazing, eh? All rookies are being hazed on the flight to NY. I wish I could go to LGA and witness their arrival. Going to any games this weekend? Nope, I can't. Hopefully next season I can catch a few. Maybe we can do a little MB gathering for one even. That'd be fun. How many nycers we got? There's myself, you, mystikol...?
September 13, 201312 yr Innings differential matters a lot, I think, especially during the end of the season. You need to consider things like arm tiring. Even if Kershaw ends up with a slightly higher ERA than Fernandez, his overall numbers would still be more impressive because he sustained that level of performance over a longer period of time. Fernandez will just win it another year, but Kershaw should get it unquestionably. A recent poll on ESPN MLB page currently polling who's more deserving of NL ROY between Puig and Fernandez in which Fernandez is winning by the mere 2%. Most of the Fernandez votes carrying from the Northeast and Southeast region.
September 13, 201312 yr Finally got his hazing, eh? All rookies are being hazed on the flight to NY. I wish I could go to LGA and witness their arrival. Going to any games this weekend? Nope, I can't. Hopefully next season I can catch a few. Maybe we can do a little MB gathering for one even. That'd be fun. How many nycers we got? There's myself, you, mystikol...? I think that's all the active ones.
September 13, 201312 yr Innings differential matters a lot, I think, especially during the end of the season. You need to consider things like arm tiring. Even if Kershaw ends up with a slightly higher ERA than Fernandez, his overall numbers would still be more impressive because he sustained that level of performance over a longer period of time. Fernandez will just win it another year, but Kershaw should get it unquestionably. A recent poll on ESPN MLB page currently polling who's more deserving of NL ROY between Puig and Fernandez in which Fernandez is winning by the mere 2%. Most of the Fernandez votes carrying from the Northeast and Southeast region. That's ESPN, where Fernandez probably gets little attention - I don't watch ESPN anymore, but listening around, it's just PUIGPUIGPUIGPUIGPUIGPUIGPUIGPUIGPUIG
September 24, 201312 yr ESPN.com put up a Baseball Tonight Minute video with Manny Acta pushing Jose for Rookie of the Year. It's painful watching/listening to Acta talk, but the good publicity is welcomed.
September 24, 201312 yr Puig is not having such a great September either. By marlins standards he's actually having an incredible September (831 ops)
September 27, 201312 yr This will probably be a regular occurrence in articles around now, but here's Stark giving Jose the ROY and #2 in the Cy Young: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/9727380/end-season-mlb-awards-honoring-very-best-worst] NL Rookie of the Year: Jose Fernandez, Marlins I've voted for many awards in my day. Always love doing it. But I've never been happier not to have a vote, for any major award, than I am this year to find myself watching other people fry their brains trying to figure out which three names belong on the National League Rookie of the Year ballot. That ballot only has three spaces -- but it needs about 12. I count 10 NL rookies who have racked up at least as many Wins Above Replacement, according to FanGraphs, as the AL rookie WAR leader, Wil Myers (who is at 2.1). And that list doesn't even include two guys I'd be looking at long and hard at if they played in the AL:Evan Gattis and Jedd Gyorko. So figuring out how to fill out the bottom of this ballot is impossible. But even sorting out the top two spots is a nightmare. You have no idea how hard it is not to cast a first-place vote for Yasiel Puig -- unless you think rookies with a .936 OPS come along every darned year. (Just for future reference, the only other NL rookies since World War II with an OPS that high, in this many trips to the plate, are Albert Pujols, Ryan Braun, Lance Berkman and -- of course! -- Bernie Carbo.) But I still can't vote for Puig ahead of Jose Fernandez, a guy who just had possibly the greatest rookie season of any starting pitcher in modern times. Yeah, really. Throw any name you want at me: Gooden, Valenzuela, Nomo, Wood, Fidrych, Darvish. They did not have a better rookie year across the board than Fernandez just had. His season ranks No. 1 in the live-ball era in Adjusted ERA (177), opponent average (.182), opponent slugging (.265) and opponent OPS (.533). You can look that up. But there's more. He went 9-0, with a 1.19 ERA, in the psychedelic Fish Tank in Miami this year -- a home record matched only by Orel Hershiser (9-0, 1.08) among rookies in the live-ball era. Fernandez's team went 18-10 when he pitched -- and a gruesome 41-90 when anyone else started. He was the first rookie starter with a WHIP under 1.00 (0.98) since baseball lowered the mound in 1969. And then there's this: The guy actually had a higher average when he batted (.220) than when the other teams' hitters batted against him (.182). Once upon a time, when Fernandez jumped all the way from Class A ball to make the team in spring training, at age 20, we were wondering what he was doing in the big leagues. By September, we were wondering where he belonged on our Cy Young ballots. My NL Rookie ballot 1. Jose Fernandez 2. Yasiel Puig 3. Hyun-Jin Ryu Honorable mention: Julio Teheran, A.J. Pollock, Nolan Arenado, Shelby Miller, Evan Gattis, Jedd Gyorko, Gerrit Cole, Juan Lagares, Trevor Rosenthal
September 28, 201312 yr The last straw poll taken of actual voters for ROY had Fernandez winning and it wasn't close so let's see
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