Two Red Sox rookies acquired votes on this 12 months’s American League Rookie of the Year, however the prize went to a division rival, as an alternative.
Baltimore Orioles infielder Gunnar Henderson is the unanimous AL ROY, MLB Network introduced on Monday night.
Triston Casas and Masataka Yoshida completed third and sixth, respectively.
While Henderson outdid them in Wins Above Replacement (6.2), video games (150), dwelling runs (28), RBI (82), and stolen bases (10), Casas and Yoshida put up spectacular numbers of their very own. Among the three, Casas led the best way in walks (70), on-base (.367) and slugging (.490), OPS and OPS+ to change into Boston’s first ROY finalist since Andrew Benintendi in 2017.
Yoshida led all certified AL rookies with 155 hits, 33 doubles, and a .289 batting common, and completed second to Henderson in extra-base hits and whole bases. Casas ranked second in OPS and third in OBP, and regardless of taking part in 18 fewer video games, completed second (to Henderson) on the AL rookie dwelling run leaderboard. They have been additionally tied at 18 Adjusted Batting Runs apiece.
Henderson is Baltimore’s first ROY since Gregg Olson in 1989, and the thirteenth unanimous AL ROY. Carlton Fisk was the primary in ’72. The checklist additionally contains Nomar Garciaparra, who took dwelling the award in ’97.
While neither Red Sox rookie took dwelling the prize, there’s victory on this defeat, particularly the place Casas is anxious.
At solely 23 years previous, Casas earned a spot on the Opening Day roster and put collectively a wonderful first full season, cementing himself as Boston’s on a regular basis first baseman. After getting off to a gradual begin, he made changes that resulted in such dramatic enhancements that his supervisor drew comparisons to Dustin Pedroia’s ROY season in 2007.
Casas’ 24 dwelling runs have been second-most on the roster; final 12 months, solely Rafael Devers hit greater than 16. Casas is barely the fifth rookie in franchise historical past to succeed in that mark at his age or youthful, and the sixth of any age to attract as many as 70 walks of their rookie season.
Most importantly, he’s not glad. This is barely the start.
Source: www.bostonherald.com