Now there's no reason to feel sorry for Barry Zito. He slurped up 126 million bucks of the Giants' bankroll over the past seven years. But now he also gets this lovely parting gift -- one last Cy Yuk award. AL Rookie of the Year: Wil Myers, Rays #9 RF Bay Rays 2013 STATS GM84 HR13 R46 OBP.351 AVG.291 didn't play a game in the big leagues this year until the 70th game of the Rays' season. Good thing he stopped by! His team got swept in a doubleheader in Boston that day to drop to 36-35, barely ahead of Toronto in the AL East basement race. But from that day on, they went 54-34, best record in the American League, second-best record in the whole sport (behind the L.A. Puigs). That wasn't all Myers' doing, obviously. But three months later, he's second on their team, behind some guy named Longoria, in slugging (.476) and OPS (.829). So they sure couldn't have done it without him. My AL Rookie ballot 1. 2. 3. Honorable mention: , , , It's also a good thing for the AL Rookie of the Year race that Wil Myers stopped by, though, because it was a pretty pedestrian crew. Now he leads all AL rookies in slugging, OPS and RBIs. And if he catches , who is one home run ahead of him (14-13), Myers is going to become the first player ever to lead all AL rookies in homers and RBIs without even playing 90 games. And that tells you exactly what kind of year for rookies it's been in this league. Myers might finish about 10th in the rookie-of-the-year balloting if he played in the National League. But in the league he's lucky enough to be toiling in, nobody has been better. NL Rookie of the Year: Jose Fernandez, Marlins
Now there's no reason to feel sorry for Barry Zito. He slurped up 126 million bucks of the Giants' bankroll over the past seven years. But now he also gets this lovely parting gift -- one last Cy Yuk award. AL Rookie of the Year: Wil Myers, Rays #9 RF Bay Rays 2013 STATS GM84 HR13 R46 OBP.351 AVG.291 didn't play a game in the big leagues this year until the 70th game of the Rays' season. Good thing he stopped by! His team got swept in a doubleheader in Boston that day to drop to 36-35, barely ahead of Toronto in the AL East basement race. But from that day on, they went 54-34, best record in the American League, second-best record in the whole sport (behind the L.A. Puigs). That wasn't all Myers' doing, obviously. But three months later, he's second on their team, behind some guy named Longoria, in slugging (.476) and OPS (.829). So they sure couldn't have done it without him. My AL Rookie ballot 1. 2. 3. Honorable mention: , , , It's also a good thing for the AL Rookie of the Year race that Wil Myers stopped by, though, because it was a pretty pedestrian crew. Now he leads all AL rookies in slugging, OPS and RBIs. And if he catches , who is one home run ahead of him (14-13), Myers is going to become the first player ever to lead all AL rookies in homers and RBIs without even playing 90 games. And that tells you exactly what kind of year for rookies it's been in this league. Myers might finish about 10th in the rookie-of-the-year balloting if he played in the National League. But in the league he's lucky enough to be toiling in, nobody has been better. NL Rookie of the Year: Jose Fernandez, Marlins
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