Hello, friends.
Baseball’s awards season is under way. Although the writer-voted ones that get all the talk aren’t coming until the calendar turns into November, others are being announced along the way. That included yesterday’s reveal of awards from the MLB Players Association, player votes that saw Colton Cowser honored as the AL Outstanding Rookie. He beat out a group that also included Boston’s Wilyer Abreu and New York’s Austin Wells among the top three.
Unlike the BBWAA Rookie of the Year awards, there’s no potential impact to the team from Cowser winning this one. We’ll find out on November 11 whether Cowser is a top three finisher for that award (he almost certainly will be) and on November 18 we’ll discover whether he was the winner.