Rookie of the Year Poll

by Tom Dakers on Feb 12, 2009 6:23 PM EST in Fun Comment 2 comments

Since there is a lack of Jay news today and I really don't have it in me to talk about how stupid it is that Bud Selig is considering punishing ARod and asterisks and all, being as he is such a hypocrite about the whole steroid issue. A few years back he was trying to deny the problem and tell us how wonderful Mark McGwire was.

So I thought we'd put up a poll for people to give their best guess for who will be AL Rookie of the year this season. Some of the main candidates:

David Price, pitcher, Tampa Bay. You guys likely know enough about him already.

Travis Snider, Toronto. If you don't know about Moonraker by now you haven't been to this site nearly often enough.

Taylor Teagarden, C, Texas. Teagarden is one of several really good young catchers the Rangers have. He was slowed some by injuries last season.

Matt Wieters, C, Baltimore. Really good looking young player for the Orioles. Just one season in professional ball but the O's traded Ramon Hernandez to open space for him. And then signed Zaun back him up.

Chris Getz, 2B, White Sox. The Sox moved Alexei Ramirez to short to open a hole for Getz. Not much for power but gets on base well.

Koji Uehara. P, Orioles. 33 year old starter, the Orioles starting staff is pretty thin and he is am 8 time Japanese All-Star. In Japan he walked just 1.1 per 9 innings.

Elvis Andrus, SS, Texas. The Rangers have moved Michael Young off short for him, so he's going to play. 53 steals last year in AA.

Brett Cecil, P, Toronto. Yeah he's gotta win a role on the team, but he's as good a prospect as David Price in Tampa Bay. If he wins a job I'm expecting him to be very good, but I'd like to see him stretch out his innings pitched in Vegas this year.

I am sure there are other good choices but got to stop somewhere, you can use the comments to point out the ones I've missed.

Poll

Who will be AL Rookie of the Year this year?

David Price, Tampa Bay

29 votes

Travis Snider, Toronto

55 votes

Taylor Teagarden, Texas

6 votes

Matt Wieters, Baltimore

26 votes

Chris Getz, White Sox

6 votes

Koji, Uehara, Baltimore

3 votes

Elvis Andrus, Texas

5 votes

Brett Cecil, Toronto

6 votes

Someone Else? Let us know who.

4 votes

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Alomst as good...

"Brett Cecil, P, Toronto. Yeah he’s gotta win a role on the team, but he’s as good a prospect as David Price in Tampa Bay. If he wins a job I’m expecting him to be very good, but I’d like to see him stretch out his innings pitched in Vegas this year. "

I was about to write how this must be a biased opinion to say that Cecil is as good as Price but I then actually looked at their Minor League #s in 2008 and couldn’t help but notice how similar they were. Both pitched in HiA, AA and AAA…

Price was 12-1 and Cecil was 8-5
Price has a 2.30 ERA and Cecil’s was 2.88
Price’s WHIP was 1.13 and Cecil’s was 1.19
Price’s BB/9 was 2.63 and Cecil’s was 3.11
Price’s K/9 was 8.95 and Cecil’s was 9.78

So yes Price was better in all areas except for K/9 but all areas were very close…Granted after being called up Price did dominate in the majors and pitched very effectively in the playoffs also. So my opinion is still that Cecil is not as good a prospect as David Price however it’s not as big a difference as I thought! And Cecil is a year younger

Interesting thought, if Cecil was the #1 overall pick in the draft would he be considered the best pitching prospect in the game? Or if he was a Yankee or Red Sox prospect would he garner more attention then he is getting now?

by bunner on Feb 13, 2009 10:33 AM EST reply actions 0 recs