AL/NL Rookie of the year and Cy Young Awards

This morning the awards for the 2015 baseball season were announced starting with the AL/NL Rookie of the year which was announced. The winners were Carlos Correa who played in only ninety nine games and on top the fact is only twenty years old! Correa batted .279 with twenty two homers and sixty eight RBI's helping Houston to win the Wild Card Game against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium to put Houston in the playoffs for the first time since 2005 when another Carlos (Carlos Beltran) propelled them into the World Series eventually losing to the Chicago White Sox. For Correa and the 2015 Astros they lost in the ALDS to the now World Series Champs Kansas City Royals in five games. In the Senior Circuit Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant took home the hardware batting .275 with twenty six homers and ninety nine runs batted in, being the anchor in the Cubs lineup for pretty much the whole season after the drama with him not being called up straight out of Spring Training. These two players are just some of the amazing young crop of players that we have in the game today.
For the "Old Timers" in the awards today, these two pitchers had phenomenal seasons respectably. Houston Astros Dallas Keuchel won it for the American League, and the Chicago Cubs Jake Arrieta won it for the National League. Keuchel posted a 2.48 ERA with twenty wins and eight losses in a career high two hundred and thirty two innings which led the American League. On the National League side Arrieta put together a magical season. He finished the year leading in Wins, Batting Average against, complete games and shout outs. Arrieta had a career best twenty two wins, career best four complete games, also having a masterful 1.66 ERA in two hundred and twenty nine innings pitched, in thirty three games started. Arrieta will be only thirty years old next season and will be the topic of discussion as he will look for back to back Cy Young's.

Sources:( baseballreference.com, espn.com, and mlb.com/stats)

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