This was the hardest award to present so far, because gosh darn it, you just don't give a rookie of the year award to a relief pitcher.  But we did.  Most would probably go with an every day player.  And Mark Trumbo and Eric Hosmer present real intriguing arguments.  But although they have good stats, their performance wasn't other worldly like Kimbrel's was.  I mean, how many pitchers have a K rate like that.  127 strikeouts in only 77 innings!? Wow!  And he did set a record for saves by a rookie with 46.

Trumbo had 29 HR's and 87 RBI.  But everything else was pedestrian.  Only 65 runs scored, 9 stolen bases, and a very average average of .254.  It just doesn't cry out you know?

Hosmer, same thing.  Good BA of .293, but only 19 HR and 78 RBI.  Also low on runs with 66 and had 11 SB.  Again, nothing that cries out, "look at me, this is incredible stuff" compared to everyone else.

Personally I would of loved to have given it to Desmond Jennings, but he only had 247 AB's.  Double his numbers and he would of had 88 runs, 20 HR's, 50 RBI, and 40 SB.  But he only hit .259 also.  And, he didn't have double his stats, only half of what I just wrote.  Kimbrel, he had ALL 46 of those saves and ALL of those 127 K's, and a 2.10 ERA with a 1.04 WHIP to boot.

I'm giving it to the kid.