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Which year was the Best ROY class

stevebaystevebay Posts: 289 ✭✭✭
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Now that Trout and Harper have won ROYs, curious to see in 20 years how they rank with other ROY Tandems.

Past Winners in AL & NL

2001: Ichiro & Pujols
1977: Dawson & Murray
1967: Carew & Seaver

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  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    56 Aparicio and frank Robinson was pretty good.
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  • CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭
    What year produced the best tandem of players that did NOT win ROY?

    '89 had Larry Walker and Griffey. I'm in that age range, so that is the first that pops into my head.
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    Can't beat the Seaver/Carew tandem.
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  • stevebaystevebay Posts: 289 ✭✭✭
    How about 1995?

    Chipper came in 2nd, and Arod didn't garner any votes
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>What year produced the best tandem of players that did NOT win ROY?
    '89 had Larry Walker and Griffey. I'm in that age range, so that is the first that pops into my head. >>



    I'm sure there are quite a few:

    1975: Jim Rice and Gary Carter
    1978: Paul Molitor and Ozzie Smith
    1982: Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg
    1984: Kirby Puckett and Orel Hershiser

    Edited to answer the OP's original question: I agree with Digicat: Seaver and Carew.
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  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,252 ✭✭✭✭
    How about 1955. Killebrew, Clemente and Koufax.
  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭
    Amazing how many busts are on there!
  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭
    Also sad to be reminded how my Dodgers at one time dominated that award for so many years but haven't won one in many years now... and I can't remember the last time a Dodger was close.
  • stevebaystevebay Posts: 289 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Also sad to be reminded how my Dodgers at one time dominated that award for so many years but haven't won one in many years now... and I can't remember the last time a Dodger was close. >>



    After Todd Hollandsworth finished off the 5-peat for the Dodgers ROY award in 1996, the highest a Dodger ever finished for ROY voting was 4th place (Kaz Ishii in 2002, w/ 1 first place vote)!

  • markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭
    Pujols and Ichiro are better than Seaver and Carew IMO.
  • markj111markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭
    One reason the Dodgers dominated was they were a good team and could bring players up later than other franchises could. Of the five who won 92-96, only Piazza had a great career. Three had decent careers, and one (Hollandsworth) was a fringe player. Their four year run 79-82 had no one in Piazza'a class, but all four were well above average players
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