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Originally Posted by rats60
There is no bias other than that of Yankee fans who think that Sanchez and Andujar deserved ROY. Ohtani isn't remotely comparable to Sanchez. Ohtani played a full season, just neither as a full time pitcher or full time hitter, but as a combination of both and led AL rookies in WAR. Sanchez was a distant 2nd to Michael Fulmer in WAR. In both cases the player who had the higher WAR won ROY as they deserved. Claiming inferior players should have won just shows bias.
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We can debate, compare apples to oranges and disagree all day....nothing is going to change the fact that Andujar had a strong season but did not win this award (which no one will remember in a week anyway) due to the hype surrounding another player who had almost as good of a season.
In addition, is Ohtani a real rookie anyway? FIVE years in the NPB?
He maybe a MLB rookie by qualifications, but clearly no rookie at the top level.
With five years already under his belt, Ohtani should have had a much better season than Andujar did with no top level experience.
As far as comparing Sanchez and Ohtani and their partial seasons, they are quite similar, especially percentage wise. You can see how they compared to your previous example of McCovey winning in his shortened season.
..............g...ab...r..h..2b.HR.RBI.BA..OBP..SL G...OPS
Sanchez 53 229 34 60 12 20 42
.299 .376 .657 1.032
Ohtani. 104 326 59 93 21 22 61 .285 .361 .564 .925
McCovey 52 192 32 68 9 13 38 .354 .429 .656 1.085
If you feel Andujar and Sanchez's rookie performances are inferior when compared to Ohtani and Fulmer's MLB "rookie" results respectively , you must be........