We lost so much when we lost Fernández. -- have ascended to all-time great status, with the award being a mere stepping-stone to untold other accolades and achievements. Sep 11, PIT (61-82) lost to STL, 4-8, 144. 2000 Pittsburgh Pirates Statistics 1999 Season 2001 Season Record: 69-93, Finished 5th in NL_Central ( Schedule and Results ) Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on Pittsburgh Pirates and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. Aug 21, PIT (51-72) lost to STL, 4-7, 125. (Yep!) Buster Posey (2010).305/.357/.505, 18 HR, 133 OPS+, 4.0 WAR. Leitch: First off, it feels like cheating a little bit for Soto to be considered a rookie in 2008, which was actually the fourth year he was up with the Cubs. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. It's not like you can back into a Rookie of the Year Award, of course; it's still very impressive. Batting - 99, Pitching - 100 Sep 12, PIT (61-83) lost to STL, 1-11, 145. Petriello: Crosby received all but one of the first-place votes this year. refused to have any other spot in the bullpen other than closer? It’s true that two voters foolishly left Matsui off entirely -- the argument that players with Japanese experience shouldn’t qualify was a poor one even before Ichiro and Hideo Nomo won -- but it’s also true that two voters left Berroa off, as well. Not only did Longoria’s arrival auger the Rays’ first postseason appearance, it got them to the World Series, for crying out loud. Sep 13, PIT (61-84) lost to STL, 5-9, 146. I don’t really need to tell you, or anyone, how much Pujols mashed this year -- 37 dingers and a .329/.403/.610 line and a unanimous win over some very good competition in Roy Oswalt, Jimmy Rollins and Adam Dunn ought to tell you that -- but what I’ve always enjoyed, looking back on this one, is how different of a player the young Pujols once was. Craig Kimbrel (2011)77 IP, 2.10 ERA, 1.52 FIP, 14.8 K/9, 3.7 BB/9, 2.8 WAR. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? 4. I’m pretty sure you were going to want this one. Montero, meanwhile, never really put it together with the Mets, though he did resurface in 2019 as a surprisingly effective reliever for Texas. We have bad thoughts still when Bay’s name comes up, but from 2004-09, he was statheads' little secret. But I’m doing it anyway, because after some hilarious numbers in a partial debut in 2010 -- 17.4 strikeouts per nine! (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.) He’s the forever example of what the addition of one player can mean for a baseball team. Leitch: Furcal was the primary addition for a Braves team that won eight games fewer than it did the year before, but he couldn’t help but be warmed by that team’s glow. 8. Coghlan, for what it’s worth, resurfaced as a valuable piece on the 2014-15 Cubs and was actually the starting right fielder in Game 1 of the ‘16 World Series. 35. Check that: I do know better. It was a good first impression. But in that first year, when he won the ROY unanimously over Masahiro Tanaka, Dellin Betances and others, Abreu was straight-up spectacular. Over the last five years, he’s settled into a solid “28-ish homers per year with a bat that’s about 25 to 30% above average,” so says that 128 OPS+ since 2015. Hilariously, an ESPN headline from that year after the award announcement read “Hellickson a questionable ROY choice,” and suggested that “it's very likely we look back on the Hellickson selection in 10 years and think, "Really?". There was the heartbreak of watching Sid Bream‘s slow run around the basepaths, sliding in safe to send the Braves to the Series. Pete Alonso (2019).260/.358/.583, 53 HR, 148 OPS+, 4.8 WAR. He was a dominant closer at the University of Texas, closing out the 2002 College World Series, and then was installed as Oakland's closer midway through his first season, and it was a job he never lost until, you know, he was out of baseball. Aug 15, PIT (49-69) lost to HOU, 4-5, 119. Sep 16, PIT (61-87) lost to HOU, 9-10, 149. Bryce Harper (2012).270/.340/.477, 22 HR, 18 SB, 118 OPS+, 4.4 WAR. Aug 11, PIT (48-66) lost to ARI, 1-6, 116. Pittsburgh Pirates Team History & Encyclopedia. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. He's been good, when healthy, every single year of his career. He also had the best strikeout rate of his career that year, and, oh yes, he pitched in a World Series (and didn’t give up a single run) that his team won. When he eventually left Colorado after six years, he was actually worse in Houston and in Texas, and he was out of baseball by 2010. Your privacy is safe with us. This was a perfectly fine and inoffensive year … and Berroa would never come close to repeating it again. We probably should have discussed this! The 2001 Pittsburgh Pirates team roster seen on this page includes every player who appeared in a game during the 2001 season. Some of them, shall we say, have not. You will never, ever, ever guess who received the final one. But then I looked at the actual balloting, and would you believe McCutchen actually finished fourth behind J.A. 16. I worry a little about how well this one is going to hold up, because he’s likely never going to be a competent defender at any position, and it’s not a great sign when a 22-year-old already has recurring knee issues, which might have cost him some early-season time had 2020 kicked off as scheduled. Some of them, shall we say, Petriello: Sometimes I think that when we think about great players who have accomplished a great deal -- like, in Posey’s case, living up to being the fifth overall pick in the Draft by winning three rings, an NL Most Valuable Player Award, and making six All-Star teams, likely on a Cooperstown trajectory, all around suffering an injury so infamous that it literally spawned a rule change that it informally bears his name -- we sort of overlook how impressive it is that the success was there from almost literally day one. This was a first-place Cubs team, and Soto more than did his part. 14. Who doesn’t want to cheer for this guy? Sep 14, PIT (61-85) lost to HOU, 7-8, 147. In case you needed another reminder how hard it is to pitch in Colorado. Howard would win the NL MVP Award the next season. 9. Things got weird after that; he was lousy the next two seasons, and only ever played a handful of games at third after age 26, but he did manage to carve out a strong second act as a 1B/PH “good luck charm” type who, from 2007-10, made it to the playoffs four straight years on four different teams. in That didn’t happen, obviously; he sat out on May 2, then he returned the next day and hit .335/.392/.470 for the rest of the season as the Sox won their second World Series of the century. Shoot, maybe he did deserve the NL Rookie of the Year Award. Petriello: I should probably know better than to take a one-inning reliever when there’s still some excellent starters and hitters on the board. Andrew McCutchen Comments on 2016 Season, Future with Pirates, Top 25 Super Bowl Performances of All Time, Each NHL Team's Most Likely Future Hall of Famer, 30 Greatest Teams in Premier League History, 28 most memorable buzzer beaters in March Madness history. Jason Bay (2004).282/.358/.550, 26 HR, 132 OPS+, 1.8 WAR. Leitch: It seems strange to look back now at Verlander’s first few years in the Majors and how excited everyone was about him, considering … he wasn’t nearly as good then as he would become. And yet! He threw 172 2/3 innings that year, at 20, his rookie year, and had a 2.19 ERA. Actually, forget rookies. Leitch: The Rays were pretty sure they had a future Hall of Famer on their hands in Longoria, and you didn’t have to squint that hard to see it. José Abreu (2014).317/.383/.581, 36 HR, 173 OPS+, 5.3 WAR. That is, until he had a great year in Boston, when everyone started over rating him, particularly the Mets, who signed him to the next in a series of disastrous contracts.

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