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Vote: Naquin up for Best Rookie Award
- Updated: September 24, 2016
Voting is underway through Nov. 11 at MLB.com/awards to help decide who wins Best Rookie regardless of league affiliation, and all five of your candidates are currently playing key roles in pennant races: Tigers right-hander Michael Fulmer, Indians center fielder Tyler Naquin, Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez, Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager and Nationals center fielder Trea Turner.
The Esurance MLB Awards annually honor Major League Baseball’s greatest achievements as part of an industry-wide balloting process that includes five groups, each of which accounts for 20 percent of the overall vote: media, front-office personnel, retired MLB players, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) voters and fans like you at MLB.com.
• Vote: Esurance MLB Awards balloting begins
Last year, you helped hand this prize to the Cubs’ Kris Bryant, who is now among your Best Major Leaguer choices in the Esurance MLB Awards. Here is a closer look at the five choices for Best Rookie right now, approaching the final week of the regular season:
Fulmer The Mets got their payoff in the Yoenis Cespedes trade from July 2015 by reaching the World Series last fall, and the Tigers are reaping the benefits this season with Fulmer, one of two players they acquired in that deal (also Luis Cessa). Fulmer makes his 25th start Friday night at Kansas City, hoping to finish strong after losing four consecutive decisions since his Aug. 4 shutout at Texas. His 10-start stretch from May 21-July 17, in which he was 7-1 with 55 strikeouts, was historic as he became the only pitcher in at least the past century to compile an ERA that low — 0.83 ERA (65 1/3 innings pitched/six earned runs) — over 10 consecutive starts in the season of his MLB debut. Fulmer had a scoreless streak of 33 1/3 innings, the longest by a Detroit pitcher since at least 1913. The question is whether tailing numbers in late summer will have impact here.
Naquin Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor finished …
