[新聞] A-Rod named Hitter of the Year

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http://tinyurl.com/yro8hw A-Rod named Hitter of the Year Fans vote third baseman winner of This Year in Baseball honor (其實也不算"新"了，早上看到消息，現在才比較有時間貼 orz 得票率 18.7% 恭喜阿肉~*^_^*) NEW YORK -- There wasn't much suspense in the hours leading up to the announ- cement of the American League's MVP award. Alex Rodriguez saw to that pretty early. Rodriguez was the Yankees' clear offensive leader throughout most of the 2007 campaign, his powerful right-handed swing whipping baseballs into the seats with a frenzied pace and leading his club out of their early-season deficit. So there was little surprise when Rodriguez claimed his third MVP award, fresh off scoring a career-high 143 runs and driving in 156 RBIs. Likewise, there must have been little hesitation for most of those participating in online voting and asked to consider the game's top run producers. A-Rod was selected as the Hitter of the Year in MLB.com's annual This Year In Baseball Awards. Rodriguez won the award in fan voting, which was conducted exclusively at MLB.com. "For me, it's been the most magical and most special year of my career so far, for many reasons," Rodriguez said recently. "Again, not winning the World Series is very disappointing -- that's why you strap it on every Spring Train- ing and that's why you work so hard in the wintertime. "But from a personal level, it was very satisfying to be able to come back from '06 and show the world what kind of player I am, on the greatest stage in the world, which is the Yankees." Months before agreeing to a landmark 10-year, $275 million deal to remain in New York, Rodriguez made a focused effort to wipe clean any troubles he expe- rienced over his first three seasons with the Yankees -- an up-and-down se- quence that saw him win the 2005 MVP award, but ended in 2006 batting eighth in a playoff game. Committed to a new physical fitness regimen and hot right out of the gate, Rodriguez batted .314 with 54 home runs and 24 stolen bases in 158 games for the Yankees in 2007, leading the Major Leagues in home runs, runs scored and RBIs. Since RBIs became an official statistic in 1920, only three other players (none in the past 50 years) have compiled a season with the Major League lead in those three categories -- Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle. Rod- riguez's .645 slugging percentage was tops in the big leagues, as was his eye- opening ratio of one RBI per 3.7 at-bats. That made retaining Rodriguez one of the Yankees' chief priorities -- at least, until the All-Star and his agent, Scott Boras, committed a snafu by opting out during Game 4 of the World Series. But time and a personal tele- phone call to senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner seemed to heal all wounds in a dramatic turn of events. The back-and-forth complete, the next decade in the Bronx will belong to A-Rod. Both team and player are happy to be able to call each other theirs for the foreseeable future. "I feel so fortunate to be playing for the greatest franchise in the world," Rodriguez said. "That's what I've wanted all along. That's where I wanted to finish my career. My whole life has been a huge blessing and a dream." More than 9.6 million votes were cast by fans around the world in the 2007 This Year in Baseball voting. Results have been rolled out daily through Dec. 21. Here is the remainder of the schedule: ‧ Dec 18: Setup Man ‧ Dec 19: Defensive Player ‧ Dec 20: Blooper/Play ‧ Dec 21: Moment/Postseason Moment (這選項阿肉的五百轟當然列為其中之一) -- 宇宙裡的微小塵埃 http://www.wretch.cc/album/AllyDai -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 203.71.94.31

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