Chris Coghlan, Your NL Rookie of the Year
1-liner, Baseball November 17th. 2009, 1:00pmMLB Awards: Determined Florida Marlins outfielder Chris Coghlan captured the NL Rookie of the Year award. One day, while in high school, he returned home to the news that his father died in a car accident while on a business trip. Coghlan found solace in the batting cage. Goodness this story is sad. Coghlan was hardly being recruited as a junior in high school; he was an 18th round draft choice in 2003. We’ll be rooting for him from now on. [St. Pete Times]
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November 17th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Nice story, but only one question remains: when does he get traded to the Red Sox for three minor league pitchers?
November 17th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Sad backstory. Happ and/or Hanson still deserved this award more.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Someone should have let the Sportswriters know JA Happ and Tommy Hanson are in fact rookies and in the National League.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
/this
November 17th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
good for him. Marlins know how to identify talent.
Anybody watch this month’s Real Sports about Nick Adenhart? After watching, I didn’t realize how dusty it is in my house!
November 17th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Jeff Neimann should have won
November 17th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Wasn’t sure if this is sarcastic or not, but Neimann is in the AL.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Randy Wells pitched forty more innings than Hanson and pretty much just as well as Happ, but nobody loves him.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Baseball writers are so easily swayed by stories.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
ugh. Randy Wells. Talk about a guy who i just kept on waiting to start sucking all year in fantasy (but never did). I have a lot of “sports hate” for that guy. I have faith he will suck next year, for no particular reason.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I have the same faith about Happ. Hanson is going to be an unstoppable monster of death though.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Randy Wells isn’t in the majors, that’s why.
There is talk of Hanson moving to closer…
/Jay V’d
November 17th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I read that article. Impressively stupid shit.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
That’s the kind of stuff I like to hear.
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but that just sounds retarded.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
You got a link? That is just dumb as fuck.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I’m 99% sure it came out of the AJC younglefty, you’re pitching surplus gives stupid people stupid ideas.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Lefy here it is.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I heard it on radio. Thanks for the help TST.