Shohei Otani became only the fourth Japanese in history to be awarded the `Rookie of the Year` award in MLB. The 24-year-old pitcher and DH of Los Angeles Angels won convincingly the poll in the American League for 2018, outpouring duet youngsters from New York Yankees: Miguel Andujar (23) and Gleyber Torres (21). In the vote of the BBWAA, Otani was named 25 times first and four times in second in a total of 30 ballots and gathered 137 points on the 5-3-1 system. Andujar was the third base of the Yankees and received 5 first, 20 second and 4th thirds and ranked the second with 89 points, and his team-mate Torres remained the third with 25 points from 3 second and 16 thirds. He went to his legendary compatriots Hideo Nomo (Los Angeles Dodgers, 1995), Kazuhiro Sasaki (Seattle Mariners, 2000) and Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle Mariners, 2001), who have so far won the `Jackie Robinson. `Shohei is also the third player of the `Angels`, selected as the best debutant in the Premier League, after Tim Salmon (1993) and Mike Trout (2012). `To achieve something so special in my first year here is a great deal for me!', said Shohei Otani. `I believe this means a lot to all the people who have supported me all the time, so I am really grateful. `
The Prize in the National League was awarded almost unanimously to Ronald Acuna Jr. . Atlanta Braves`s 20-year-old outfit was topped 27 times in the first place and three times in the second place, accumulating 144 points. His runners-up turned out to be Washington Outback`s Juan Soto outfitter (20) with 89 points and Los Angeles Dodgers` Walker Walker Bullner(24) with 28 points. `` First of all, I want to thank God, my family, my parents and all the teammates who supported me from the first day I was called to the Major League. award is all our hard work as a team during the season.`, he said in an official statement, He is on a tour in Japan with a MLB team. He is only the third Venezuelan elected `Rookie of the Year` after two legendary shorts of Chicago White Sox - Luis Aparicio (1956) and Ozzie Guillén (1985). In the club mentioned by baseball-predictions history, there are seven other winners: Alvin Dark (1948), Sam Jethroe (1950), Earl Williams (1971), Bob Horner (1978), David Justice (1990) Forkal (2000) and Craig Kimbrel (2011).
