{"id":576,"date":"2013-11-13T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T01:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2013-11-13T18:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T01:54:15","slug":"darvish-wins-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Darvish Wins ROY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Demigods pitcher Yu Darvish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continuing a recent trend, a large number of pitchers were exceptionally dominant in the 2013 baseball season.\u00a0 Among DTBL newcomers, pitchers ruled the season as well.\u00a0 In coming up with the 20 finalists for the Rookie of the Year award, I usually try to include a few more hitters than pitchers since they occupy a larger number of roster spots.\u00a0 However, that simply wasn’t possible this year with so many great rookie pitchers in the league.\u00a0 One of them clearly stood out among the rest though.\u00a0 Demigods pitcher Yu Darvish is the 2013 Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n

Darvish was the shining light in an otherwise dim rotation.\u00a0 The Demigods finished last in the league in pitching points.\u00a0 Everyone but Darvish should be blamed for that.\u00a0 Darvish led the entire league in strikeouts (277), finished fourth in ERA (2.83) and eighth in WHIP (1.07).\u00a0 He won 13 games.\u00a0 His strikeout total destroyed the Demigods single season franchise record, which was previously held by Cole Hamels (216).\u00a0 277 is the most strikeouts a DTBL pitcher has recorded since Randy Johnson had 290 in 2004.\u00a0 I haven’t 100% confirmed this, but I believe it is also a league rookie record.<\/p>\n

It was a pretty easy choice for the Demigods when they picked Darvish with the fourth overall pick in this year’s draft.\u00a0 He was the second pitcher taken, immediately after Kris Medlen.\u00a0 He wound up being the most productive player out of the first round class by a fairly comfortable margin.\u00a0 While he was not able to turn around the Demigods pitching staff by himself, he certainly gives them a solid piece to build around next year.<\/p>\n

Darvish received nine out of the ten first place votes.\u00a0 He also received one second place vote, making him the only player to appear on all ten ballots.\u00a0 He finished with 97 points, making him a clear cut winner of the Rookie of the Year award.\u00a0 Pitchers dominated the vote, finishing in the top three spots.\u00a0 The Mavericks’ young fireballer Matt Harvey came in second place with five second place votes and 46 total points.\u00a0 An elbow injury derailed his season in late August, effectively handing the award to Darvish.\u00a0 Harvey probably would have been the favorite to win this award had he stayed healthy.\u00a0 Both Darvish and Harvey figure to get some love in the Cy Young vote as well.\u00a0 Finishing in third place with 38 points was the Gators’ Hisashi Iwakuma.\u00a0 Perhaps the biggest surprise on this list, the 7th round pick Iwakuma was among the league leaders in ERA and WHIP.\u00a0 Next, we finally have a hitter.\u00a0 Gators shortstop Jean Segura received the one first place vote that didn’t go to Darvish.\u00a0 He notched 32 points to finish fourth.\u00a0 Segura was the Gators 8th round pick.\u00a0 So with consecutive picks in the second half of the draft, the Gators managed to pick two of the top four rookies of the year.\u00a0 Finally, rounding out the top five is Mavericks third baseman Manny Machado.\u00a0 Machado and Harvey gave the Mavericks their own pair of rookie sensations.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view the full Rookie of the Year voting results.<\/p>\n

The schedule for the announcement of the other two awards is not firm, but I plan to announce the Cy Young award winner either tomorrow or Friday, with the Most Valuable Player award announcement coming next Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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