Awards season has started off with a whimper for the Pittsburgh Pirates. On Nov. 10, Major League Baseball announced this year's BBWAA Rookie of the Year winners for the American League and National League, with Pennsylvania native and Athletics slugger Nick Kurtz taking it home for the AL, and Atlanta Braves rookie backstop Drake Baldwin winning it for the NL. The complete balloting from all 30 individual voters (both American and National Leagues) can be found on the BBWAA website, which shows that the experts left out Pittsburgh Pirates' rookie pitcher Braxton Ashcraft entirely. Ashcraft not receiving even a single fifth-place vote is a serious snub, and he's someone who should have been on at least one well-educated ballot.
Pittsburgh Pirates' top rookie got seriously snubbed in Rookie of the Year voting
