Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia and Milwaukee third baseman Ryan Braun won the AL and NL Rookie of the Year Awards respectively.
Pedroia easily won out over Delmon Young of Tampa Bay by a margin of 132 to 56. Pedroia received 24 of 28 first place votes. Young received three and Brian Bannister of Kansas City received one.
Since the BBWAA changed the voting system to allow electors to rank three candidates instead of naming one, the closest margin of victory had been four votes. Hanley Ramirez of Florida edged out Ryan Zimmerman by four votes last year and in 2003 Angel Berroa of Kansas City beat Hideki Matsui by four votes.
The interesting thing to me was the honesty (except for possibly one voter). Maybe writers are too stupid, though, rather than too honest.
Second and third place don't mean anything. Therefor, if you really feel Tulo deserves the award, you vote Tulo #1 and Braun #3 (or not at all - but that might be too obvious). One voter did that. Every other voter who chose Tulo #1 put Braun #2 and every voter who put Braun #1 put Tulo #2.
It may not happen very often, but I think it would be interesting to see how voting went on legitimately close calls in the past.
Yes, there have been ties before. They are described in the links to the voting.
The writers used to just vote for one player. Now they vote for three.
Second and third place don't mean anything. Therefor, if you really feel Tulo deserves the award, you vote Tulo #1 and Braun #3 (or not at all - but that might be too obvious). One voter did that. Every other voter who chose Tulo #1 put Braun #2 and every voter who put Braun #1 put Tulo #2.
It may not happen very often, but I think it would be interesting to see how voting went on legitimately close calls in the past.
And you actually said that, but I didn't see it at first.
Sorry.
Berroa's votes were 12-7-7
Matsui's votes were 10-9-7
So there were two voters who left them off completely. Baldelli got five first place votes and Texeira got one.
In 2006 for the NL
Ramirez's votes were 14-11-2
Zimmerman's votes 10-16-3
Uggla got 6 first place votes and Josh Johnson got 2.
In deference to you Daniel, I will change the acronym to PRTA from RTFA.
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