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Rookie of the Year Award

The Rookie of the Year Award is part of the This Year in Baseball Awards, established by Major League Baseball (MLB.com) in 2002 allowing "connected" fans to first select nominees for various awards then vote for those they selected in the categories.

Those who were nominated and those who won the Rookie of the Year are presented below in yearly sections. Bold names denote the winner and all nominees appear in descending order of total percentage of votes received.

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Rookie of the Year Award Image of an Actual This Year in Baseball Award by MLB.com via "The Fans"
2003 Rookie of the Year Award		% of Votes
Scott Podsednik	Milwaukee	33.1%
Hideki Matsui	New York	17.6%
Brandon Webb	Arizona	12.4%
Miguel Cabrera	Florida	8.1%
Rocco Baldelli	Tampa Bay	7.2%
Dontrelle Willis	Florida	6.9%
2004 Rookie of the Year Award		% of Votes
David Wright	New York	32.9%
Jason Bay	Pittsburgh	19.3%
Khalil Greene	San Diego	15.7%
Bobby Crosby	Oakland	12.2%
Daniel Cabrera	Baltimore	4.3%
2005 Rookie of the Year Award		% of Votes
Robinson Cano	New York	28.9%
Jeff Francoeur	Atlanta	17.5%
Willy Taveras	Houston	13.4%
Tadahito Iguchi	Chicago	11.2%
Zach Duke	Pittsburgh	8.4%
2006 Rookie of the Year Award		% of Votes
Francisco Liriano	Minnesota	21.0%
Jonathan Papelbon	Boston	20.7%
Justin Verlander	Detroit	14.9%
Jered Weaver	Los Angeles	10.7%
Matt Cain	San Francisco	8.7%
Ryan Zimmerman	Washington	6.9%
Prince Fielder	Milwaukee	4.0%
Dan Uggla	Florida	3.7%
Kenji Johjima	Seattle	3.1%
Takashi Saito	Los Angeles	3.0%
Hanley Ramirez	Florida	2.8%
Josh Johnson	Florida	0.5%
2007 Rookie of the Year Award		% of Votes
Troy Tulowitzki	Colorado	27.6%
Dustin Pedroia	Boston	26.3%
Ryan Braun	Milwaukee	22.3%
Hunter Pence	Houston	8.2%
Chris Young	Arizona	4.4%
Josh Hamilton	Cincinnati	3.6%
Daisuke Matsuzaka	Boston	2.8%
Brian Bannister	Kansas City	2.3%
Jeremy Guthrie	Baltimore	1.3%
Delmon Young	Tampa Bay	1.3%
2008 Rookie of the Year Award		% of Votes
Evan Longoria	Tampa Bay	23.5%
Geovany Soto	Chicago	17.7%
Jacoby Ellsbury	Boston	17.0%
Alexei Ramirez	Chicago	13.9%
Armando Galarraga	Detroit	7.8%
Joba Chamberlain	New York	7.2%
Joey Votto	Cincinnati	5.7%
Jair Jurrjens	Atlanta	4.2%
Brad Ziegler	Oakland	1.8%
Jay Bruce	Cincinnati	1.1%
2009 Rookie of the Year Award		% of Votes
J.A. Happ	Philadelphia	47.0%
Andrew McCutchen	Pittsburgh	9.4%
Tommy Hanson	Atlanta	9.0%
Chris Coghlan	Florida	7.1%
Rick Porcello	Detroit	6.6%
Gordon Beckham	Chicago	6.6%
Elvis Andrus	Texas	4.6%
Casey McGehee	Milwaukee	4.4%
Andrew Bailey	Oakland	1.1%
Garrett Jones	Pittsburgh	1.1%
2010 Rookie of the Year Award		% of Votes
Buster Posey	San Francisco	68.0%
Neftali Feliz	Texas	16.0%
Jason Heyward	Atlanta	8.0%
Austin Jackson	Detroit	5.0%
Jaime Garcia	St. Louis	3.0%
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The Rookie of the Year is part of the This Year in Baseball Awards set, created in 2002 by MLB.com. Review the main page to see all the other variations.

In 2010 the award title didn't change, but they did choose to start also calling them GIBBY Awards, short for Greatness in Baseball Yearly.

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