{"id":7222,"date":"2012-11-13T07:46:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2012-11-13T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T15:26:58","slug":"mlb-2012-rookies-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7222","title":{"rendered":"MLB 2012 Rookies Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7227\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7227\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/harper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7227\" title=\"harper\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/harper-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nationals, Bryce Harper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2013 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.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 21-year-old center fielder hit .326 with 30 homers and 83 RBIs following his call-up from\u00a0the minors in April.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trout received all 28 first-place votes from the Baseball<br \/>\nWriters\u2019 Association of America and was the eighth unanimous AL<br \/>\npick and the first since Tampa Bay\u2019s Evan Longoria in 2008.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bryce Harper, who just turned 20, is the second-youngest winner<br \/>\nof the NL rookie of the year. Harper batted .270 with 22 home runs<br \/>\nand 59 RBIs as Washington brought postseason play to the nation\u2019s<br \/>\ncapital for the first time since 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Harper was\u00a0 called up from the\u00a0AAA Syracuse Chiefs\u00a0\u00a0April 27, 2012, where he \u00a0batted .250 with one home run and four doubles in 20 games with the Chiefs.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Harper got 16 of 32 first-place votes and 112 points from the NL<br \/>\npanel. Arizona pitcher Wade Miley was second with 12 first-place<br \/>\nvotes and 105 points, followed by Cincinnati slugger Todd Frazier<br \/>\nwith three firsts and 45 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NEW YORK (AP) \u2013 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. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 21-year-old center fielder hit .326 with 30 homers and 83 RBIs following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7232,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions\/7232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}