SBN Baseball Postseason Awards -- National League Rookie of the Year

by WholeCamels on Nov 10, 2009 1:27 PM EST

The SBNation bloggers voted on the BBWAA postseason awards, and we're rolling out the results! Today: National League Rookie of the Year. Results after the jump...

Atlanta Braves starter Tommy Hanson narrowly defeated Phillies lefty J.A. Happ, garnering 78 points and nine total first place votes, to Happ's 64 points and six first place votes.

The Pirates Andrew McCutchen and the Marlins Chris Coghlan tied for third place, with 54 total points.

Rk	Player	Team	1st	2nd	3rd	Pts
1	Tommy Hanson	Atlanta Braves	9	9	6	78
2	J.A. Happ	Philadelphia Phillies	6	9	7	64
3	Andrew McCutchen	Pittsburgh Pirates	8	3	5	54
4	Chris Coghlan	Florida Marlins	7	5	4	54
5	Dexter Fowler	Colorado Rockies	-	3	1	10
6	Randy Wells	Chicago Cubs	-	-	6	6
7	Garrett Jones	Pittsburgh Pirates	1	-	-	5
8	Casey McGehee	Milwaukee Brewers	-	1	2	5
9	Seth Smith	Colorado Rockies	-	1	-	3

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Who gave Seth Smith a 2nd place vote?!?

The guy doesn’t even start against our lefties in the postseason, and somebody voted him over Happ/Hansen? Gotta be the Rockies blogger, right?

by JimmyK on Nov 10, 2009 1:47 PM EST reply actions

Happ just needed to stay healthy at the end of the year and he probably would have taken the award home. It’s the usual what have you done for me lately syndrome. Happ put up an ERA .04 worse than Hanson, in the friendly confines of CBP.

I think he got hosed. If anything, Coghlin or McCutchen should have gotten more consideration.

by ajr142 on Nov 10, 2009 5:02 PM EST reply actions

Yup – all of happs starts were in PHilly

by jemagee on Nov 10, 2009 5:04 PM EST up reply actions

More of his starts were in CBP than Hanson’s. 10 of his 22 starts were at home, and 7 of his 12 relief appearances were at home, for an even 17/17 split. Hanson had a mere three starts on the road in places like CBP, Cincy, and Colorado. He conveniently had 6 starts in very pitcher friendly parks compared to Happ’s 3 away starts in tough, hitter’s parks. I’d say the ballpark could have had a decent impact.

by layout ultimate on Nov 10, 2009 8:03 PM EST up reply actions