As expected, the Cubs field general Geovany Soto took home the NL Rookie of the Year honors. He's the 5th Cub to win the honor and first catcher since Mike Piazza in 1993. He did it on the strength of a 285/364/504 batting line with 23 HR's, 86 RBI's and 66 Runs in the traditional baseball categories. He also created 6.6 Runs per game, had a 7.0 WARP-1 value and was 5 runs above average on defense, those last two numbers courtesy of Baseball Prospectus. That's quite a nice little season that was good enough to get 31 of the 32 possible first place votes, with one yokel probably from Cincinnati voting for Joey Votto.

Thanks to the legwork of reader WISCGRAD, here's the complete list of Cubs that have received a vote for the Rookie of the Year. The five winners are in bold (Geovany Soto, Kerry Wood, Jerome Walton, Ken Hubbs and Billy Williams).

Name
Year
Place
Geovany Soto
2008
A 1st Mark Prior
2002
A 7th Kerry Wood
1998
1st
Jeremi Gonzalez
1997
9th Kevin Orie
1997
11th
Steve Trachsel
1994
4th
Chuck McElroy
1991
5th
Mike Harkey
1990
5th
Jerome Walton
1989
1st
Dwight Smith
1989
2nd
Mark Grace
1988
2nd
Damon Berryhill
1988
6th
Les Lancaster
1987
6th
Mel Hall
1983
3rd
Ryne Sandberg
1982
6th
Scot Thompson
1979
3rd
Manny Trillo
1975
3rd
Bill Madlock
1974
3rd
Randy Hundley
1964
3rd
Ken Hubbs
1962
1st
Billy Williams
1961
1st
Jack Curtis
1961
3rd
Ron Santo
1960
4th
Dick Drott
1957
3rd
Ernie Banks
1954
2nd
Bill Serena
1950
5th

Now that Soto has earned the ROY hardware, next up - OSCAR!

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