November 8, 2024

13 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Gil named AL’s top rookie by Baseball Digest

    1. It was certainly an element of that. He did start looking better as the post season went on. If only they hadn’t pissed away 2 winnable games in the WS…

    2. It was so awful. And then he carried it into the post season. One night he hits a double and HR against the Dodgers, and it’s like, hey, he found his stroke. The next day, he goes 0-4 with 3 K’s.

  1. Schmidt can definitely be every bit as good as Gil. He pretty much WAS as good or better than Gil for most of the season, until he got hurt and Gil kept going.

  2. Also, is it a fact that Cowser has that RoY wrapped up if he didn’t win this one?
    Why would that be?
    (I didn’t even realize there were two of them!)

    1. The BBWAA one counts for the team getting an extra pick at the end of round 1.

      When a player wins the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) Rookie of the Year award, their team is awarded an extra draft pick right after the first round, thanks to the “Prospect Promotion Incentive” (PPI) rule in the current MLB collective bargaining agreement; essentially, if a highly touted prospect performs well enough to win Rookie of the Year, their team is rewarded with an additional early draft pick.

      https://tinyurl.com/mpkrtz2v

    2. Because Gil spent a year+ on the ML IL, he wouldn’t have been eligible for the draft pick though.

  3. I don’t know what’s going to happen but for the first 40/50% of the season he was just about the best pitcher in the league. I think his upside is higher than Schmidt’s but he’s also more likely to flame out than Schmidt.

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