It seems like most people are calling for DP to get Rookie of the Year honors based on his exceptional defense. He plays a skill position extremely well (Gold Glove-type well, actually) and hits extremely well.
DP got of to a rough start in April but since then has completely turned it around. Offensively, there are three powerhouses at 2B in baseball right now: Chase Utley, Placido Polanco, and our boy DP. Consider these numbers: .317 BA, .380 OBP (Polanco is first at .388), and in nearly the same number of place appearences (520 for DP, 530 for Utley), he has struck out less than half as many times (42 vs. 89). Bottom line: he does what a #2 needs to do. He walks some, he gets on base a lot, and he doesn't strike out.
And he's a cool guy...for what it's worth.
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I agree 100%.
His main "competition" seems to be the Ray's Delmon Young, but if you look closely it is really no contest, as I try to explain in this post.
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