Jake Cronenworth and Kyle Lewis are the winners of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA) Rookie of the Year awards in their respective leagues.
In the National League, Cronenworth, second baseman for the Padres, got 468 points, besting Brewers reliever Devin Willians (212) votes and Alec Bohn (162) of the Phillies. I don’t want to criticize my fellow IBWAA writers, but I am baffled by this. Cronenworth hit .285 with four homers and 20 RBIs in 192 at bats in the shortened season. Those are perfectly adequate rookie numbers. However, Williams was one of the best relievers in baseball — an impossible 0.