Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Paul Skenes and New York Yankees starting pitcher Luis Gil were named NL and AL Rookie of the Year Award winners, respectively, on Monday.

Skenes edged San Diego Padres rookie Jackson Merrill and Milwaukee Brewers rookie Jackson Chourio to win the award, while Gil beat teammate Austin Wells and narrowly edged Baltimore Orioles slugger Colton Cowser.

Merrill hit .292/.326/.500 with 24 homers, 16 stolen bases and 90 RBIs in 156 games. HE caused All rookies with 5.3 FanGraphs wins above replacement and sorted He ranks 15th among all position players regardless of service time. Chourio hit .275/.327/.464 with 21 homers, 22 stolen bases and 79 RBIs in 148 games.

Cowser hit a .242/.321/.447 batting line in 153 games. His 24 homers are tied with Jackson Merrill among rookies. Wells hit .229/.322/.395 with 13 homers and 55 RBIs in 115 games. While these numbers aren’t perfect for most positions on the diamond, the catch bar is different. HE sorted He’s fourth among all backstops with 3.4 FanGraphs wins above backup.

As for Skenes, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2023 MLB draft entered professional baseball with all the excitement in the world and has managed to surpass it.

Skenes was awarded the 2024 National League Rookie of the Year award, beating out Jackson Merrill of the San Diego Padres and Jackson Chourio of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Skenes’ MLB debut has been pushed back more than a month until the 2024 season due to the Pittsburgh Pirates keeping him in the minors. They tried to delay free agency by a year, but it came to nothing because the top two finishers in the Rookie of the Year voting received an award. automatic year of service under the collective bargaining agreement, regardless of when they are called.

When Skenes was finally called up on May 11, he never looked back.

The 22-year-old threw six no-hit innings with 11 strikeouts against the Chicago Cubs in his second career start. it just happened fifth rookie To start the All-Star Game in MLB history. Hideo Nomo was the last major league pitcher to achieve this feat in 1995.

Skenes finished the year with a 1.96 ERA, 170 strikeouts and 94 strikeouts allowed in 133 innings. He didn’t have enough innings to qualify for the year-end leaderboard, but among players with at least 130 innings, here he is sorted Among NL pitchers:

• ERA: 1st (1.96)
• K/9: 1st (11.5)
• xFIP: 1st (2.54)
• xERA: 1st (2.50)
• K-BB%: 1st (26.8)
• K%: 1st (33.1)

He allowed two or fewer earned runs in 19 of his 23 starts, including each of five games in September.

Gil’s .189 batting average was the highest among pitchers who pitched at least 150 innings during the regular season. second lowest In MLB. Hunter Green of the Cincinnati Reds had a .183 batting average in 150.1 innings pitched.

Gil became the 10th Yankees player to win the Rookie of the Year award, breaking the gap with the Atlanta Braves. second most in MLB history. The Los Angeles Dodgers are far ahead of everyone else with 18 wins.

This marked the first time a Yankees player was named AL Rookie of the Year since Aaron Judge in 2017.