This is not the official won, which I think comes out on Nov 10, but if deGrom doesn't win that he will have been robbed.
By the time his season ended, deGrom had a 2.69 ERA in 22 starts covering 140 1/3 innings. Among pitchers with at least 140 innings, deGrom’s 2.67 FIP ranked ninth in all of baseball. Clearly, the players who voted for the SN award were impressed.
"I'm very honored to receive this prestigious award," deGrom told Sporting News. "My teammates were a huge reason for my success. Individual honors are nice but what excites me the most is looking forward to next year and helping the Mets reach the postseason." |
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Adam Rubin has been wrong before. From 2009-2013 the Sporting News ROY did not completely match official award
Yes - deGrom since the all star break had a 2.16 era. Looking at the top 3 pitchers in the NL and their era's since the all star break, Kershaw had a 1.76 era, Cueto's was 2.43 and Wainwright's was 3.24.
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a lock for the real award.
Adam Rubin has been wrong before. From 2009-2013 the Sporting News ROY did not completely match official award
Adam Rubin has nothing to do with my opinion. Weak crop, Hamilton's WAR is largely defense based which rarely means anything to voters (if at all), deGrom will win by a significant margin in my opinion.
• No team had high school players comprise a higher percentage of their draft signings than the Mets (35.7 percent), who signed the second-most high school players of any team (10). While more than half of the (57.7 percent) of all high school players that signed were drafted in the top 10 rounds, the Mets drafted all but two of their prep players after the 10th round (third-round shortstop Milton Ramos and eighth-round first baseman Dash Winningham), signing many of them to bonuses exceeding $100,000 such as righthanders Erik Manoah and Gabe Llanes, outfielder Raphael Ramirez and shortstop Dale Burdick. There were 60 prep players who signed after the 10th round, and the Mets drafted eight of them (13.3 percent).
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• The Rangers have consistently drawn from the junior college well over the last few years and had the highest percentage of junior college signees of any team (25.0 percent). They signed seven junior college players in 2014, the second-most behind the Astros (8), after signing six in 2012 and eight in 2013. Texas made big, projectable lefthander Brett Martin (fourth round) the seventh junior college player selected after Walters State (Tenn.) JC teammate Brent Honeywell (second round; Rays), Jake Cosart (third round; Red Sox), lefthander Michael Mader (supplemental third round; Marlins), outfielder Wes Rogers (fourth round; Rockies), corner infielder Eudor Garcia (fourth round; Mets) and righthander Robbie Dickey (fourth round; Nationals).
Milton Ramos #2 defensive player in the draft
Michael Conforto #2 most interesting background
Bonfield #5 "one who got away"
Conforto and Garcia the top 2 pure hitters we picked
Conforto and Garcia top 2 power hitters we picked
Ramirez fastest runner we picked (occasional 70 tool)
Ramos best defensive player
Wieck best FB and arm strength, Prevost also cited
Wieck best secondary pitch (plus breaker)
Best debut Wieck and Roseboom
Athlete-Ramos (he's also related to Teheran)
Best late picks Ramos and Roseboom
Closest to majors- Wieck (lefty reliever), Conforto
I guess it depends on how the voting works, but I'd think that it would be very hard for 3 guys to get into the top 10 from one team. deGrom will eat into whatever support TDA and JF would otherwise have. Indeed, TDA didnt finish in the SN top 5, and was outvoted by Hamilton, Wong, Panik, and Inciarte even though all 4 OPS'd lower than TDA (a catcher). Panik finishing 4th is really mind boggling to me.
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