Rookie of the Year: Evan Longoria and Geovanny Soto
The American League and National League Rookies-of-the-Year will be announced later today. Before that occurs, here are the results of the voting by Fake Teams readers.
The winner in the AL is Evan Longoria of the Tampa Bay Rays and the NL winner is Geovanny Soto of the Chicago Cubs. Neither is a surprise, and both won handily over the competiton.
What will be interesting to see how how different the Faketeams results are further down the ballot.
American League ROY Results:
| Rank | Player | Team | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evan Longoria | Tampa Bay Rays | 132 |
| 2 | Alexei Ramirez | Chicago White Sox | 74 |
| 3 | Jacoby Ellsbury | Boston Red Sox | 61 |
| 4 | Mike Aviles | Kansas City Royals | 30 |
| 5 | Joba Chamberlain | New York Yankees | 28 |
| 6 | Chris Davis | Texas Rangers | 23 |
| 7 | Brad Ziegler | Oakland A's | 18 |
| 8 | Armando Galaragga | Detroit Tigers | 15 |
| 9 | Denard Span | Minnesota Twins | 14 |
| 10 | Nick Blackburn | Minnesota Twins | 13 |
National League ROY Results:
| Rank | Player | Team | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geovanny Soto | Chicago Cubs | 130 |
| 2 | Joey Votto | Cincinnati Reds | 79 |
| 3 | Jay Bruce | Cincinnati Reds | 49 |
| 4 | Hiroki Kuroda | Los Angeles Dodgers | 47 |
| 5 | Jair Jurrjens | Atlanta Braves | 46 |
| 6 | Kosuke Fukudome | Chicago Cubs | 23 |
| 7 | Johnny Cueto | Cincinnati Reds | 22 |
| 8 | Blake DeWitt | Los Angeles Dodgers | 10 |
| 9 | Jorge Campillo | Atlant Braves | 10 |
| 10 | John Lannan | Washington Nationals | 8 |
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Oh yeah
Given the power drop this season, either player looks good relative to his peers at the position. I expect both to be $20-30 players in single league formats and 4th to 7th round picks in mixed snakes.
I could see Longoria going a round later but not much after that.
Actual Al ROy Results
2008 AL Rookie of the Year Voting
Player, Club 1st 2nd 3rd Points
Evan Longoria, TB 28 140
Alexei Ramirez, CWS 18 5 59
Jacoby Ellsbury, BOS 7 5 26
Mike Aviles, KC 2 3 9
Armando Galarraga, DET 9 9
Joey Devine, OAK 1 3
Denard Span, MIN 3 3
Nick Blackburn, MIN 1 1
Joba Chamberlain, NYY 1 1
Brad Ziegler, OAK 1 1
jac
the Elsbury hype machine sure died down from last years World Series,im sure he’s not the prince of Boston anymore

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