The players voted and Cowser was the AL Outstanding Rookie. Hopefully the writers agree.
Hello, friends.
Baseball’s awards season is under way. Although the writer-voted ones that get all the talk aren’t coming until the calendar turns into November, others are being announced along the way. That included yesterday’s reveal of awards from the MLB Players Association, player votes that saw Colton Cowser honored as the AL Outstanding Rookie. He beat out a group that also included Boston’s Wilyer Abreu and New York’s Austin Wells among the top three.
Unlike the BBWAA Rookie of the Year awards, there’s no potential impact to the team from Cowser winning this one. We’ll find out on November 11 whether Cowser is a top three finisher for that award (he almost certainly will be) and on November 18 we’ll discover whether he was the winner. That’s significant to the Orioles because if Cowser does win the AL ROY, the team gets a bonus draft pick next year.
There is no Major League Baseball today. There’s barely any of any kind of baseball; even the Arizona Fall League is generally off on Sundays, although two of the six teams are playing a game today. Orioles prospects aren’t involved in that one. Get used to it. Even if the World Series goes seven games, it’ll be over by this time next week. The long dark of the offseason is coming.
Those for whom the Yankees are the #1 most hated team of all time – a group that certainly includes me – can enjoy during this day off that the Yankees sit in a 2-0 hole in the World Series against the Dodgers. Aaron Judge was 0-4 with three strikeouts last night. Lacking anything more directly Orioles-related to enjoy, at least there is this. It is up to the Dodgers to finish this thing off, preferably closing out the series back in the franchise’s long ago former home of New York City. The effort resumes on Monday night.
Around the blogO’sphere
Free agent predictions begin with whopper predictions for Burnes and Santander (Steve Melewski)
Melewski reacts to The Athletic’s Jim Bowden predicting seven years and $247 million for Corbin Burnes, with six years and $150.5 million predicted for Santander. I’m a no if those are the years and prices.
Holliday learned from ups and downs of rookie season (Orioles.com)
Here’s hoping all the learning leads to a 2025 campaign with more ups than downs for Jackson Holliday.
Looking forward to the next Orioles World Series (Baltimore Baseball)
Beat writer Rich Dubroff shares some recollections of World Series matchups from his early years.
Birthdays and Orioles anniversaries
There are a few former Orioles who were born on this day. They are: 2017 infielder Rubén Tejada, 1999-2003 pitcher Jason Johnson, 2003 outfielder Pedro Swann, 1985-87 pitcher Eric Bell, and 1960 one-game catcher Del Rice.
Is today your birthday? Happy birthday to you! Your birthday buddies for today include: composer Niccolò Paganini (1782), 26th president Theodore Roosevelt (1858), historian Joe Medicine Crow (1913), baseball Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner (1922), and race car driver Dick Trickle (1941).
On this day in history…
In 1275, according to tradition, the city of Amsterdam was founded.
In 1810, the former Spanish colony of West Florida was annexed by the United States. The land contains what is today the Florida panhandle as well as portions of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.
In 1961, NASA conducted its first test of the Saturn I rocket, a key milestone towards the Apollo program’s eventual success in manned lunar exploration.
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And that’s the way it is in Birdland on October 27. Have a safe Sunday.