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Originally Posted by egri
A thought I had the other day was that with this change, a lot of rookie of the year recipients, like Jackie Robinson, Sam Jethroe, and some others I can’t think of off the top of my head, weren’t rookies when they won the award. I’d like to see what the consensus is here about whether the awards should be left as-is or be redone? Certainly the winners today would be different than if the voting had been held in the late 1940/early 1950s under those circumstances; the writers today value different stats, including some that didn’t exist at the time.
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This same debate happened when Ichiro won RoY – at the end of the day, the award is given to someone in their rookie season in MLB and competing at the highest level of play. If writers are against awarding it to someone who spent considerable time in another league (which are almost certainly of a lesser average skill level) before hitting the Show, they're free to not vote for that person.
They earned the awards then and they should stand now.