Should O’s look to buy out some of Mancini’s free agent years? (Steve Melewski)

The impressive pair of Rays rookies, Randy Arozarena and Wander Franco, as well as Rangers rookie slugger Adolis Garcia, all seem likely to end up ahead of Mountcastle. He finished with only a 0.9 bWAR and 1.4 fWAR - Mountcastle didn’t even have the highest WAR among Orioles position players, as Ramón Urias finished with 2.0 bWAR and 1.6 fWAR. Though some of the more homer-ish segments of Orioles media have treated it as a given that Mountcastle deserves the win for leading AL rookies with 33 home runs, that’s probably not going to be enough for a victory with the 2021 electorate.īy more modern measures that try to encompass defense and positional value, Mountcastle is not so close to the top. It’ll be interesting to see whether Ryan Mountcastle sneaks into the top three of the ROY voting. The winners will not be announced until next week. Top three finishers for the big three awards handed out by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) - that is, both leagues MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year awards - will be announced tonight. One of the offseason rituals will take place today even as the World Series is still going on.

For today, there will be no baseball, but we aren’t headed into the long dark of the offseason just yet. It’s over if they lose on Tuesday, but they can worry about that on Tuesday. The Astros will still need to win the next two games to take the series.

As MLB’s Sarah Langs noted, only one team had ever pulled off a five run comeback, and the last time anyone came back from four down to win a WS elimination game was 1925. They came back from a 4-0 deficit to beat Atlanta in Game 5 to send the series back to Texas on Tuesday. Houston managed to pull off one of the largest comeback wins by a team facing elimination in the World Series in the entire history of baseball. The end of the 2021 baseball season will be waiting another couple of days at least.

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