The Cuban gardener Randy Arozarena won the American League Rookie of the Year award, as announced just minutes ago by MLB Network.
The 26-year-old from Pinar del Río hit 20 home runs and stole the same number of bases, making him the third player to debut with that combination of home runs and scams in the last decade, after Mike Trout and Andrew Benintendi.
In addition, the Rays player led the debutants in average with .274, turned the frame 94 times, hit 32 doubles and had an OPS of .815.
Arozarena won 22 of the 30 first place votes, while his compatriot Adolis García (Rangers) got three, Wander Franco (Rays) and Luis García (Astros) got two and the other went to Emmanuel Clase, from the Indians.
In that way, The so-called Cuban Mr. October became the sixth player from this land to win the award, after Tony Oliva (1964), José Canseco (1986), José Fernández (2013), José Abreu (2014) and Yordan Álvarez ( 2019).
Meanwhile, in the other circuit, waiter Jonathan India, of the Reds, won 29 of the 30 first-place votes (the remaining one went to pitcher Trevor Rogers, of the Marlins).
The 24-year-old led all major league debutants in on-base percentage (.376), doubles (34), bases (71), runs scored (98) and games played (150), and ranked second in OPS ( .835).
By the way, his teammate from Pinar del Río Vladimir Gutierrez He obtained a third place vote, after a campaign of nine successes and an ERA of 4.74.
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