Good morning, Camden Chatters.
No shocking upsets occurred yesterday in the AL Rookie of the Year results. John Means didn’t bring home the award. The Astros’ Yordan Alvarez, as expected, was the runaway winner, hauling in all 30 first-place votes. Means settled for second place, slotting ahead of the Rays’ Brandon Lowe.
There was no world in which Alvarez wasn’t going to win after he put up video game-type offensive numbers for the best team in baseball. Still, I was hoping one or two voters would toss a first-place vote to Means, who led Alvarez in bWAR and also spent the entire season in the majors while Alvarez wasn’t called up until June.