My, my, the BBWAA certainly seemed to screw this one up.
Kyle Lewis, with by any measure dead-even stats when compared with White Sox rookie Luis Robert, won the 2020 AL Rookie of the Year.
And Lewis didn’t just WIN the award.
He won it UNANIMOUSLY.
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Yes, you’re seeing that correctly; one voter (Tim Cowlishaw of the Dallas Morning News) left Robert COMPLETELY OFF of the awards ballot.
It is not partisan hackery to wonder how in the world two guys with almost identical seasons, playing the same position, can be seen so differently.