The rookies of the year were announced today in both leagues and neither comes as a shock. The winner in the American League is Tampa Bay Rays third baseman, Evan Longoria. In the National League the award goes to catcher for the Chicago Cubs, Geovany Soto.

Longoria was called up by the Rays in April and led all AL rookies with a .272 batting average, 27 HRs and 85 RBIs. Those are even more impressive numbers when you remember that he missed five weeks after breaking his wrist in early August. Longoria is the first member for the Rays to win the ROY award. He joins Carlos Pena, who received a Gold Glove last week for his play at first base, as the first two players to win awards for the World Series runner-ups. Longoria won the AL ROY unanimously. He's the first to do so since Nomar Garciaparra won the award back in 1997 with the Boston Red Sox.

Soto becomes the first catcher to win this award in either league since Mike Piazza won it with the Los Angeles Dodgers back in 1993. The last Cub to win the ROY was Kerry Wood in 1998. Soto had a great season for a player at any position finishing the season batting .285 with 23 HRs, 35 doubles and 86 RBIs. The only NL rookie to hit more homers this year was the Cincinnati Reds, Joey Votto. He kept Soto from winning the ROY award unanimously as one of the possible votes went Votto's way.

Here's the schedule for the rest of the awards to come in MLB:

NL Cy Young - Tuesday, November 11th
NL/AL Managers of the Year - Wednesday, November 12th
AL Cy Young - Thursday, November 13th
NL Most Valuable Player - Monday, November 17th
AL Most Valuable Player - Tuesday, November 18th

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