The ninth man.

[kailes2872]

Great article. I think Ortiz is your man as 1997 was his first season. Baseball Reference has Rivera as 1995 - so I don't think he would qualify with KO's criteria.

Based upon the ROY voting last year, Seager has a good chance to be the 10th man - with Fulmer in the running as well. Of course, Joe Charboneau looked like he would be a long timer and we know how that one worked out and Papi was no where near the top of the ROY voting in '97.

National League Player 1st Place Votes 2nd Place Votes 3rd Place Votes Points
Corey Seager, Los Angeles Dodgers 30 ---- ---- 150
Trea Turner, Washington Nationals ---- 11 9 42
Kenta Maeda, Los Angeles Dodgers ---- 11 4 37
Trevor Story, Colorado Rockies ---- 7 3 24
Aledmys Diaz, St. Louis Cardinals ---- 1 11 14
Jon Gray, Colorado Rockies ---- ---- 1 1
Steven Matz, New York Mets ---- ---- 1 1
Seung Hwan Oh, St. Louis Cardinals ---- ---- 1 1
American League Player 1st Place Votes 2nd Place Votes 3rd Place Votes Points
Mike Fulmer, Detroit Tigers 26 4 ---- 142
Gary Sanchez, New York Yankees 4 23 2 91
Tyler Naquin, Cleveland Indians ---- 2 14 20
Chris Devenski, Houston Astros ---- 1 4 7
Edwin Diaz, Seattle Mariners ---- ---- 4 4
Nomar Mazara, Texas Rangers ---- ---- 4 4
Tim Anderson, Chicago White Sox ---- ---- 2 2