Who Are the Writers Who Voted Volquez Rookie of the Year, Even Though He’s No Rookie?
1-liner, Baseball November 12th. 2008, 9:45amUh, He’s Not a Rookie: “Edinson Volquez appears on three NL Rookie of the Year ballots, even though he’s not a rookie. It wasn’t even something esoteric like the days-on-the-roster rule; he threw 80 innings for Texas prior to 2008, and the cutoff is 50. I think the truth about my rejected membership is that I failed the board’s intelligence test – I have some. The three voters who included Volquez were Jeremy Cothran of the Newark Star-Ledger, John Klima of the Los Angeles Daily News, and Jay Paris of the North County Times in San Diego.” (The Dish)
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November 12th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Well, they’d never heard his name before this year. Isn’t that the same thing as being a rookie?
/sincere
November 12th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Nerd fight!
November 12th, 2008 at 9:54 am
he was a rookie in the National League.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:55 am
“Who gives a shit? It’s fucking rookie of the year voting. You guys are making too much of this.”
/fake quote attributed to Jeremy Cothran, John Klima, or Jay Paris
November 12th, 2008 at 9:55 am
So was Johan.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:56 am
About one of the voters for Volquez:
So they let a soccer fan vote for these things – what’s the big deal?
November 12th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Jeremy Cothran is Ty Duffy
November 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Start donating to your university, you cheap prick!
November 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Manny for ROY!
November 12th, 2008 at 10:01 am
He went out of his way on his own blog to point out he doesn’t give any money to his alma mater. That’s messed up.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am
@TBL
Way to give credit to captain spaulding at
November 12th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Shit man I don’t donate shit to my Alma-mater fuck that. Those bitches should owe me money.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Ty Duffy>>>>>>>> ass hat MLB voters.
Seriously. Baseball has some serious voting issues as far as it’s awards go. Remember a few years ago when Justin Morneau won the MVP, then it was revealed that someone who wrote in Chicago had put only AL Central players on his ballot and didn’t include Jeter (who finished 2nd). Sometimes these awards are jokes.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Who gives money to their Alma maters? How rich are you people?
November 12th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Baseball writers are the most petty people in sports. Like the year Ted Williams won the Triple Crown and lost the MVP to DiMaggio by one vote because a writer left him off his ballot completely.
More and more fans are trying to move towards unbiased statistical analysis, but the fact remains that most of the people who cover the game are going to vote for whoever they like the most.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Speaking of baseball awards, do you think this comment comes back to bite Pujols this year?
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2680495
November 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
@ St. Bear: statistically speaking, who is the AL MVP?
November 12th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I should defer that question to one of the Jerks (ie Nick).
Alex Rodriguez leads the league in VORP, but he missed alot of games. Mauer and Morneau are 1-2 in Win Shares (that surprised me). I like Sizemore. He’s 2nd in VORP and 3rd in Win Shares all while playing stellar defense.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:22 am
*Sizemore is 4th in Win Shares
/that’s why I should have let Nick answer
November 12th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Maybe we should just set up a computer like the BCS to pump out who the statistical MVPs and Cy Youngs are each year.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am
if you have to go farther than the standard stats to build your argument a certain player should win an award, they should win it in the first place.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:31 am
November 12th, 2008 at 10:47 am
ryan braun had 0 errors in 2008, so he should have won a gold glove
/wilhelmreems