{"id":1407,"date":"2021-11-22T08:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2021-11-22T08:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:25:24","slug":"peralta-nabs-rookie-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Peralta Nabs Rookie Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id='HgKo_2plR2xxSAWGQ3Lrvw' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1311186267' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'HgKo_2plR2xxSAWGQ3Lrvw',sig:'uLmJYQRzxszvm86SfTGkomCdVRs8akPN_EIBt9gYeeY=',w:'594px',h:'392px',items:'1311186267',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><br \/>\nFor as long as this league has existed, teams have employed the strategy of using real life starting pitchers who qualify as relievers in relief pitcher slots to attempt to gain an advantage in the wins and strikeout categories.\u00a0 Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.\u00a0 There is usually a price to be paid in the ERA and WHIP categories when an additional, sometimes marginal starting pitcher is utilized.\u00a0 But when that extra starter is an All-Star caliber pitcher, the calculus changes quite dramatically and it becomes a huge boon to a pitching staff.\u00a0 The Demigods took a chance on Freddy Peralta in the eighth round of this spring&#8217;s draft, and boy did it pay off.\u00a0 He is the 2021 DTBL Rookie of the Year.\u00a0 This is the second straight year the award has been won by a Demigod, following Fernando Tatis Jr. a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Peralta\u00a0struck out 195 batters, which was almost twice as many as any other DTBL reliever recorded and was a single season league record for a pitcher occupying a reliever slot, just surpassing Chris Sale&#8217;s breakout season of 2012 in which he pitched almost 50 more innings than Peralta did this year.\u00a0 Peralta won 10 games, which may not seem especially impressive, but in today&#8217;s suppressed starting pitcher win environment, it was another nice bump for the Demigods.\u00a0 The last DTBL reliever to win more games than that was Josh Collmenter in 2014.\u00a0 The real risk of using starters as relievers is the damage they could do to ERA and WHIP.\u00a0 But Peralta was elite in those categories as well, posting a 2.81 ERA and 0.97 WHIP.\u00a0 In total, he accumulated 6.85 PAR to lead the Demigods staff.\u00a0 Usually, its a bad sign if a reliver leads a team in pitching PAR.\u00a0 But in this case, Peralta was a legitimate ace.\u00a0 That PAR total was tops among DTBL rookies as well.\u00a0 I do not have complete awards records prior to 2005.  But in the years since, Peralta is the first DTBL designated relief pitcher to win Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>It is probably safe to call the selection of Peralta in the eighth round a steal for the Demigods, even with him moving to a starting pitcher slot next year.\u00a0 He was not enough to boost the Demigods into contention this year, but combining him with Max Fried, Aaron Nola and Joe Musgrove does give them a solid foundation on which to build.\u00a0 The Demigods back-to-back Rookie of the Year winners, Peralta and Tatis, may have arrived with different pedigrees:\u00a0 Tatis was the first overall pick in the draft while Peralta was taken 74th.\u00a0 But both should be huge figures in the team&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Peralta did have strong competition for this award.\u00a0 Of the nine ballots cast, Peralta was the first choice on seven of them.\u00a0 The other two ballots had him second, for a total of 84 points.\u00a0 That gave him the award by a comfortable margin.\u00a0 Finishing second was Beanballers hurler Chris Bassitt, who might have won this award had he not suffered a gruesome injury when he was hit in the face with a line drive in August and missed most of the remainder of the season.\u00a0 Bassitt won 12 games with a 3.15 ERA.\u00a0 He did not receive any first place votes, but was the consensus runner up with five second place votes and 48 total points.\u00a0 Just behind him was Moonshiners outfielder Ryan Mountcastle who led all DTBL rookies with 33 home runs.\u00a0 The Moonshiners first round selection received the two first place tallies that didn&#8217;t go to Peralta and appeared on all nine ballots for a 43 point total.\u00a0 The third and final player to appear on every ballot was Kings outfielder Randy Arozarena.\u00a0 The 2020 Postseason breakout star and 2021 American League Rookie of the Year validated his status as the second overall pick in the draft with a 20\/20 season.\u00a0 He had exactly 20 home runs and stolen bases.\u00a0 Arozarena received one second place vote and a slew of third through fifths for 37 points.\u00a0 Rounding out the top five is Mavericks starting pitcher Tyler Mahle.\u00a0 He led DTBL rookies with 13 wins and 197 strikeouts.\u00a0 He was a great find for the Mavericks in the sixth round and helped save a staff ravaged by injuries.\u00a0 Mahle tallied 14 points in finishing fifth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/ROY21.txt\">Click here<\/a> to view the full voting results.<\/p>\n<p>After going months without posting a blog entry, I&#8217;m going to try to cram three in consecutive days.\u00a0 The plan is to announce the Cy Young winner tomorrow and MVP on Wednesday.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images For as long as this league has existed, teams have employed the strategy of using real life starting pitchers who qualify as relievers in relief pitcher slots to attempt to gain an advantage in the wins and strikeout categories.\u00a0 Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.\u00a0 There is usually a price [&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-1407","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\/1407","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=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}