NEW YORK (AP) – Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels was a unanimous winner of the AL Rookie of the Year after a season that put him in contention for the MVP award, too.
The 21-year-old center fielder hit .326 with 30 homers and 83 RBIs following his call-up from the minors in April.
Trout received all 28 first-place votes from the Baseball
Writers’ Association of America and was the eighth unanimous AL
pick and the first since Tampa Bay’s Evan Longoria in 2008.
Bryce Harper, who just turned 20, is the second-youngest winner
of the NL rookie of the year. Harper batted .270 with 22 home runs
and 59 RBIs as Washington brought postseason play to the nation’s
capital for the first time since 1933.
Harper was called up from the AAA Syracuse Chiefs April 27, 2012, where he batted .250 with one home run and four doubles in 20 games with the Chiefs.
Harper got 16 of 32 first-place votes and 112 points from the NL
panel. Arizona pitcher Wade Miley was second with 12 first-place
votes and 105 points, followed by Cincinnati slugger Todd Frazier
with three firsts and 45 points.
