Pittsburgh Pirates Paul Skins (22) beat San Diego Padres Jackson Merrill (21) for the National League Rookie of the Year award.
MLB.com , the official Major League media, said on the 19th (Korea Standard Time), “Polskins began the 2024 season with the expectation that he will become the best pitching prospect of this generation. He will finish 2024 as the best rookie in the National League.”
Skins is a special right-handed ace who joined the Pittsburgh Pirates as a first-round pick in the 2023 Rookie Draft. In his first year, he recorded an ERA of 5.40 in only five games (six ⅔ innings) in the Minor League, but this year, 토토사이트 showed an overwhelming performance of 0.99 in seven games (27 ⅓ innings) in the Minor League Triple-A, and successfully completed his debut season by posting 11 wins, three losses and an ERA of 1.96 in 23 games (133 innings).
Thanks to his stellar performance, he was included in the three finalists for the Rookie of the Year award and the Cy Young Award, despite not meeting the stipulated innings. He also beat out prominent contenders such as Jackson Merrill, Jackson Churio (Milwick) and Shota (Cubs) to win the Rookie of the Year award. Contrary to the expectation that Merrill will prevail, Skins swept 23 of the 30 first-place votes, overwhelmingly winning the Rookie of the Year award. He also garnered seven second-place votes, and all 30 voters cast a second-place vote or higher for him. This was followed by Merrill (7 first-place votes, 23 second-place votes), 3rd-place Churio (26 third-place votes), and 4th-place Imana (4 third-place votes).
“He pitched 133 innings during his debut season, winning 11 games and losing 3 with a 1.96 170 strikeouts. With fastballs and splicers over 100 miles (160.9 kilometers), he quickly became a sensation in the Major League and displayed outstanding performance to become a starter at the All-Star Game,” MLB.com said.
Skins broke the record for the most strikeouts by a rookie pitcher in Pittsburgh. In addition, Jason Bay in 2004 and Skins this year are the only players in Pittsburgh’s history to have won the Rookie of the Year award. “He is also one of the three finalists for the National League Cy Young Award to be announced through MLB Network on Wednesday,” MLB.com said, highlighting his performance with Skins.
Meanwhile, Lewis Gill won the Rookie of the Year award in the American League. Gill won 15 wins and seven losses with an ERA of 3.50 this year in 29 games (151 ⅔ innings). The competition for the Rookie of the Year award was much fiercer in the American League than in the National League. According to the results of the vote, Gill received 15 first-place votes, 10 second-place votes, and one third-place vote, narrowly beating second-place Colton Kauser (Baltimore, 13 first-place votes, 11 second-place votes, and three third-place votes).