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sports Diaranson 17 november 2021

Rays OF Arozarena, Reds 2B India earn Rookie of Year honors

(AP) - It didn’t feel like season in 2021, finishing with homers and 39 homers while
Randy Arozarena was a a .274 average, 32 doubles, 20 playing less than half the sea-
rookie this season. homers, 20 stolen bases and son.
69 RBIs while adding excel-
Tampa Bay’s speedy and lent defense, helping the Rays The 24-year-old Garcia was
powerful outfielder certainly return to the postseason. instrumental in the Astros’
didn’t play like one, either. “I know I was favored to be run to the World Series this
the rookie of the year,” Aro- season. He had an 11-8 re-
Arozarena won AL Rookie of zarena said through a trans- cord with a 3.48 ERA and
the Year honors with a superb lator. “But for me, my mind struck out 167 batters over
follow-up to his 2020 post- wasn’t set on the award or 155 1/3 innings.
season heroics while Cincin- winning the award. My mind
nati Reds second baseman and my goal was to have an- India won the NL award
Jonathan India earned NL other good season and con- eight months after earning
Rookie of the Year on Mon- tinue what I had done the the team’s second base job
day night. year before.” during spring training and
never letting it go during a
The standout years for Aro- Arozarena earned 22 of 30 stellar first season. big leagues and become a cellent season that included a
zarena and India highlight first-place votes in balloting cornerstone for the Reds’ 7-8 record and 2.64 ERA over
the changing profile of a by members of the Base- The 24-year-old India re- future. His quick impact in 25 starts. The hard-throwing
good MLB leadoff hitter. ball Writers’ Association of ceived 29 of 30 first-place the big leagues was some- lefty struck out 155 batters
Both players have speed and America, beating out Hous- votes, beating out Miami left- what surprising considering over 133 innings.
a good eye, but also consider- ton right-hander Luis Gar- handed pitcher Trevor Rog- he had just 111 at-bats above
able power. It’s the first time cia and Tampa Bay infielder ers and St. Louis outfielder Single-A before 2021. Carlson was part of a young,
since 1953 that the rookie of Wander Franco. Dylan Carlson. Rogers got talented outfield for a Cardi-
the year winners were both one first-place vote. India He was the Reds’ first rook- nals team that made a late-
primarily leadoff hitters. Arozarena is Tampa Bay’s said it’s been an amazing ie of the year winner since season charge to the playoffs.
That season, Detroit’s Har- first rookie of the year since journey from spring training, pitcher Scott Williamson in Playing as a 22-year-old, he
vey Kuenn and Brooklyn’s outfielder Wil Myers in 2013. where he was a longshot to 1999. batted .266 with 18 homers
Jim Gilliam won. even make the regular-season and provided solid defense in
Five AL players received at roster. The 6-foot, 200-pound In- all three outfield spots.
If it didn’t seem like this least one first-place vote in dia was an all-around threat
wasn’t Arozarena’s first year, this year’s tally, including “I didn’t really have a role — particularly during the The Managers of the Year
there’s a reason. The 26-year- Garcia, Franco, Texas out- on the team, I was just there second half of the season — will be announced by the
old Cuban provided a stun- fielder Adolis García and to fill in for some guys who often batting leadoff and fin- BBWAA on Tuesday night,
ning lift for the Rays during Cleveland pitcher Emmanuel weren’t playing,” India said. ishing with a .269 average, followed by the Cy Young
the 2020 postseason with 10 Clase. Garcia hit 31 homers “I kind of took it personal. I 34 doubles, 21 homers, 69 Awards on Wednesday and
homers in 18 games during this season while Clase had just wanted to be a big leagu- RBIs and 12 stolen bases. He the MVPs on Thursday.
their run to the World Series. a 1.29 ERA in Cleveland’s er this season and I made it also showed good discipline
bullpen. a point to put my head down in the batter’s box, coax- The AL finalists for Manager
But Arozarena didn’t play and grind.” ing 71 walks to finish with a of the Year are Tampa Bay’s
enough during the 2020 reg- The 20-year-old Franco has .376 on-base percentage, and Kevin Cash, Seattle’s Scott
ular season to lose his rookie the label as one of MLB’s India was the No. 5 overall scored 98 runs. Servais and Houston’s Dusty
status so he was eligible for future stars and his perfor- pick in the 2018 draft and Baker. The NL finalists are
the award this year. He fol- mance in 2021 did nothing to played third base in college The 23-year-old Rogers fin- Milwaukee’s Craig Counsell,
lowed up his postseason discourage that billing. The at Florida, but he’s found a ished second. He was chosen St. Louis’ Mike Shildt and
breakout with an excellent infielder hit .288 with seven home at second base in the as an All-Star during an ex- San Francisco’s Gabe Kapler.

Guardians MLB team settles lawsuit with roller derby club

(AP) — Cleveland will have two The Major League Baseball franchise over the use of the name Guardians,
teams called the Guardians. and a local roller derby club have allowing both to continue using it. Last month, the Cleveland Guardians
reached a resolution in a lawsuit filed roller derby team, which was formed
The sides on Tuesday jointly an- in 2013, filed its lawsuit alleging the
nounced an “amicable resolution,” an baseball team’s switch from Indians
agreement that permits the Indians to to Guardians infringed on its trade-
continue their changeover to Guard- mark and employed deceptive trade
ians — a switch that was delayed due practices, violating a state law.
to the legal matter and isn’t com-
pletely finished. “A Major League club cannot simply
take a smaller team’s name and use
No other terms of the agreement it for itself,” the lawsuit said. “There
were disclosed. cannot be two ‘Cleveland Guardians’
teams in Cleveland, and, to be blunt,
The legal scuffle was another hurdle Plaintiff was here first.”
in a long route to the official name
change for the Indians, whose deci- Now that the legal entanglement has
sion to drop Indians angered some been resolved, the Guardians baseball
fans and alienated others. The Ameri- team can begin selling merchandise.
can League team has been known as The team had been hoping to have
the Indians since 1915. new jerseys and caps on store shelves
in time for holiday shopping.
Next season, they’ll be the Guard-
ians, a name chosen following a year- Earlier this month, the team began
long process that sprang from a na- removing Indians signs in and around
tional reckoning over racist names Progressive Field.
and symbols.