What day does the NL & AL rookies of the year get announced? Who's gonna win and why?

Answer 1

The date they announce the awards has not yet been determined. MLB will usually post a schedule of their postseason awards a few days after the World Series wraps.

NL: Ryan Braun has easily wrapped up this award! Why? Because he hit .324, 34 HR's and had 97 RBI and 15 SB's in only 113 games (451 AB's)! These are MVP numbers. For a rookie to put up these numbers is a shock. Remember, this is a guy who didn't even start the year on the Brewers' roster. He wasn't even called up to the majors until May 25! We're talking about someone who started playing in the majors a third of the way into his team's season! To qualify for batting titles, most players usually are required to have at least 501 plate appearances in the regular season. Braun didn't even have that, and yet his numbers were top-notch. Sure, Ned Yost gave him plenty of RBI opportunities by immediately batting him 3rd, but plenty of other rookies wouldn't have been able to handle such a responsibility. For comparison's sake, Troy Tulowitzki hit 10 fewer HR's and had only 2 more RBI in more than 150 AB's than Braun had.

AL: This is more wide open.

Daisuke Matsuzaka led all rookies with 15 wins, but his ERA is pretty high and so are his number of losses. Plus, I think the voters might be opposed to giving the award to a player with experience in a foreign country after Kazuhiro Sasaki and Ichiro won it in consecutive years. So this also would prevent Kei Okajima, a good reliver who will be overlooked because he's not the closer; from being considered as well.

Being a Mets fan, it would be painful to see Brian Bannister win it, but his WHIP is an unsightly 1.21, so I can't see him winning it; nor Jeremy Guthrie, who had an identical WHIP despite having more strikeouts.

So it's likely going to a hitter.

Among AL rookies with at least 350 plate appearances, Dustin Pedroia had the highest OPS (.823) and batting average (.317), and was also the only rookie to hit above .300. He also had the second highest OBP (.380). Reggie Willits, who led all rookies in OBP (.391) and had the second highest batting average (.293) will push Pedroia for the award because he had 27 SB's to Pedroia's 7. But Pedroia had more walks than strikeouts (47, 42) which smacks of patience for a rookie, so I see Pedroia winning it.

So the short answers are:
a)The date hasn't been announced yet.
b)Ryan Braun
c)Dustin Pedroia

Answer 2

NL rookie of the year: Troy Tulowitzki ( just look at the numbers, and a smart ball player this kid is.)

AL rookie of the year: tough one, but gonna go with Dustin Pedroia ( highest batting average ever for a rookie in the american league .317, was a huge contributer to the red sox after his first month's struggles.)

Answer 3

I wish I knew the date too! I wanna see if my boy Tulo gets the NL ROY or not.... ;D
Of COURSE Tulowitzki is a shoe in for NL Rookie of the Year....Just look at what he's done so far this year! An unassisted triple play, grand slam, and so many more AWESOME plays! This kid has got the stuff!
LETS GO TULO!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

Probably 12-November.