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Old 11-14-2018, 08:16 AM
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Recapping what has already been discussed: As a DH Ohtani has an OFFENSIVE WAR is 2.7. Andujar has an OFFENSIVE WAR of 4.6.

Unless I am mistaken, a 4.6 OFFENSIVE WAR is greater than a 2.7 Offensive WAR.

If you insist upon using WAR to compare these two players, use the one measurement that is comparable for both players, offensive WAR.

They are both good players...one had a great season with minimal hype, the other had great hype and a pretty decent season. If hype is enough to win a subjective award, then great.

Again, the bias is obvious....a Yankee in 2016 had a similar partial season to Ohtani in 2018 yet loses the award to an 11-7 pitcher.

In another day or two nobody will even care.
Offensive WAR is irrelevant, oWAR is a counting stat. Ohtani's counting stats are all going to be lower because he had fewer plate appearances. Ohtani had fewer plate appearances because he is just as talented as a pitcher and brought tremendous value at a pitcher. Despite his fewer PA, he was a better hitter than Andujar with an OPS+ of 152 to Andujar's 126.

Andujar had a decent season, Ohtani had a historic season. Ohtani had an ERA+ 126 and K/9 11. Of pitchers with 10 starts, that has been done 39 times in baseball history and only the 4th time a rookie has done that. His OPS+ of 152 is 21st all time for rookies with at least 350 PA. Of the 13 players that did it in the ROY award era, 9 won ROY and the other 4 2nd, including Rico Carty who finished 2nd to Dick Allen with OPS+ of 162 to 161.

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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