Baseball America picked nine position players and six pitchers to be part of their All-Rookie team with Noah Syndergaard being the only Mets player chosen. Michael Conforto was passed over in the outfield for Joc Pederson, Randal Grichuk and Odubel Herrera mainly because of his limited opportunity this year (only 174 AB’s).
Syndergaard led rookie pitchers with his 166 strikeouts this season in 150 innings. He also led all MLB rookie starting pitchers with a 1.05 WHIP and 10.0 K/9 innings. Thor was also the hardest throwing rookie starting pitcher ever (minimum 80 IP) since Pitch fx started tracking eight years ago with his average 96.5 MPH fastball.
He also led rookie starters with his 3.25 FIP, 2.91 xFIP, and SIERA at 2.95. Noah finished with the second best WAR at 3.1 behind only Anthony Scalafani who started seven more games than Syndergaard.
On Conforto?? BOOOOOOO Baseball America. BOOOOOOOO. But congrats Noah.
If he had more at bats he would have definitely had a shot but those 3 guys had twice as many.
Oh I know. Peterson’s second half was woeful enough for me to think Michael had a slight shot. Oh well.