Rookie of the Year: Evan Longoria and Geovanny Soto

by faketeams on Nov 10, 2008 2:27 PM EST in Baseball Comment 4 comments

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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Soto

let the Soto and Longoria hype begin for 2009 drafts.

raygu

by raygu on Nov 10, 2008 9:55 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

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.

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by faketeams on Nov 10, 2008 10:04 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

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

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by faketeams on Nov 10, 2008 2:25 PM EST reply actions 0 recs