The top three were announced for every major award in baseball. We start out talking about the manager of the year. We get into Terry Francona’s chances to win and what the award means to us. It is rather easy to guess who the top three candidates are because the award should really be named the surprise team of the year award instead of the manager of the year. 

Next up is a discussion of the Rookie of the Year where Steven Kwan is in the top three which is a minor win, just due to some of the hype that went to other players throughout the year. This has been one of the single greatest rookie seasons in the history of the American League. In the last 22 years, Julio Rodriguez and Adley Rutschman had the 9th and 10th best seasons by fWAR and Steven Kwan is tied for 22nd. As good as he was it was an incredible year in general for American League Rookies so in this case, third is deserved and also excellent. 

We end with some discussion about players whose options were not picked up by players and or teams. Which names stood out? Who are the most interesting players to you? We discuss Andrew Chafin, Miguel Sano, Zach Eflin, Matt Strahm, Jean Segura, Anthony Rizzo, and Tommy Pham. We also briefly get into why we think it is very unlikely that Shohei Ohtani will be traded, which matches up with the news from Anaheim today. 


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