{"id":1359,"date":"2020-11-17T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T02:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2020-11-17T19:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T02:07:01","slug":"tatis-takes-top-rookie-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Tatis Takes Top Rookie Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"YzM8qAmQRutEoUX1_eyoag\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1271046257\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\nwindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'YzM8qAmQRutEoUX1_eyoag',sig:'deMSFD8eXoDdgG8DHJk_8YOvz7eDWNF-FK3JxEsunSA=',w:'594px',h:'401px',items:'1271046257',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nFor the second consecutive year, the first overall pick in the DTBL Draft immediately took the league by storm and became one of its best players.\u00a0 Last year, it was Ronald Acuna who led the league in PAR and won the 2019 DTBL Rookie of the Year award.\u00a0 The Demigods didn&#8217;t have a very difficult choice to make with the first pick of the draft back in March.\u00a0 While it appeared to be a strong incoming class, there was only one player available who seemed to be a safe bet to carry a team in all five offensive categories.\u00a0 The young shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. did just that.\u00a0 Through much of the season, not only was Tatis the league&#8217;s best rookie, but also seemed a lock to win both of the coveted postseason awards for which he was eligible.\u00a0 In a very decisive vote, Fernando Tatis Jr. has won the 2020 DTBL Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Acuna a year ago, Tatis led not only DTBL rookies, but all players in batting PAR.\u00a0 He accumulated 4.6 PAR in the abbreviated 2020 season, which put him on pace to break Acuna&#8217;s record setting 11.4 PAR from last year.\u00a0 Tatis was truly a five category star.\u00a0 His power and speed combo produced 17 home runs and 11 stolen bases, joining Jose Ramirez and Mookie Betts as the league&#8217;s only 15+ HR, 10+ SB players this year.\u00a0 He led the league with 50 runs scored while knocking in 45.\u00a0 His .277 average was solid as well, though he slipped down to that mark in the closing weeks.\u00a0 Among rookie hitters, nobody was particularly close to him.\u00a0 His PAR was more than twice that of the next best rookie hitter.\u00a0 Now we will wait to see if Tatis is able to accomplish the MVP\/ROY double, which Acuna just narrowly missed last season.<\/p>\n<p>Tatis is the primary reason why the Demigods were in contention for their first DTBL title for much of the season.\u00a0 They drifted back to a seventh place finish, but nearly doubled their batting point total (14 to 27), and moved into the top half of the league in batting points.\u00a0 Tatis led the Demigods in home runs, runs and stolen bases.\u00a0 He had nearly twice as many base thefts as any of his teammates.\u00a0 He and Freddie Freeman gave the Demigods two of the best players in the league.\u00a0 Freeman was recently named the National League MVP and figures to join Tatis in the discussion for that award in this league as well.\u00a0 Tatis and Francisco Lindor give the Demigods an extremely enviable duo at shortstop that should help carry their offense to new heights in upcoming years.\u00a0 Tatis is the Demigods&#8217; first Rookie of the Year winner since Corey Kluber in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Tatis&#8217; nearly impeccable Rookie of the Year resume, the streak of consecutive unanimous winners of this award ended at three.\u00a0 Tatis received nine of the ten first place votes, plus one second to finish with 97 points.\u00a0 While the unanimous selection streak ended, the streak of runaway victories continues.\u00a0 Tatis was the only player to appear on all ten ballots.\u00a0 Finishing second was one of this year&#8217;s breakout stars, Jackalope pitcher Dinelson Lamet.\u00a0 This was actually not Lamet&#8217;s first season in the DTBL.\u00a0 However, he remained rookie eligible because he never appeared on the Naturals active roster in 2018 before succumbing to Tommy John surgery.\u00a0 This year, Lamet struck out 93 in 69 innings with an impressive 2.09 ERA and 0.86 WHIP.\u00a0 No rookie pitcher had more strikeouts.\u00a0 Lamet received six second place votes for a total of 50 points.\u00a0 Just behind him was another early draft pick of the Demigods, third round pitcher Max Fried.\u00a0 Their second round pick Zac Gallen also received a vote, which means the Demigods really cashed in with their first three selections.\u00a0 Fried had a miniscule 1.98 ERA and led rookies with six wins.\u00a0 He appeared on nine ballots with one second and five third place votes for 41 points.\u00a0 The fourth place finisher was a major contributor for the champion Darkhorses.\u00a0 Their bullpen was the best in the league, by far, and Liam Hendriks was a big reason why.\u00a0 Hendriks had 14 saves with a ridiculous 1.78 ERA and 0.67 WHIP.\u00a0 He received the lone first place vote that didn&#8217;t go to Tatis, propelling him to 29 points.\u00a0 This is the highest finish in the Rookie of the Year vote for a relief pitcher since Craig Kimbrel and John Axford finished second and third respectively in 2011.\u00a0 Rounding out the top five is one of this season&#8217;s best free agent signings, outfielder Teoscar Hernandez.\u00a0 Despite going undrafted, Hernandez was signed in time to accumulate a dozen homers for the Beanballers in just 140 at bats.\u00a0 He received a second place vote and 12 total points.\u00a0 In total, 11 different players appeared on at least one ballot.\u00a0 So while there was a clear consensus for the top spot, many deserving players split the remaining votes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/ROY20.txt\">Click here<\/a> to view the full voting results.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry I&#8217;m a little late with the start of these award announcements.\u00a0 I usually like to do them about the same time as the MLB awards are announced.\u00a0 But in my defense, I think MLB did theirs a week earlier than usual this year.\u00a0 At any rate, the Cy Young award should be announced in a few days with MVP to follow either this weekend or early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images For the second consecutive year, the first overall pick in the DTBL Draft immediately took the league by storm and became one of its best players.\u00a0 Last year, it was Ronald Acuna who led the league in PAR and won the 2019 DTBL Rookie of the Year award.\u00a0 The Demigods didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-demigods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}