ROY

Continuing with Awards season, Geovany Soto and Evan Longoria won the Rookie Of the Year awards in the NL and AL respectively today. This shouldn't surprise anyone. The only competition to Soto was Joey Votto, but putting up the same stats behind the dish playing for a division winner gave Soto the easy win. In the American League it was slightly closer, but Longoria still got every first place vote, easily beating out 2nd place Alexei Ramirez. There is some argument to be made for Alexei being that he played some middle infield, but with Longoria being on a better team, missing some time to injury while still putting up solid stats, and doing well during parts of the playoffs this was still an obvious choice.

Not too much stock should be placed into the ROY. Not that Soto and Longoria are Angel Berroas part II, far from it, but history shows this award doesn't mean future success.