And make some trades, and Alfredo Griffin wins the Rookie of the Year
45 Years Ago Blue Jays shortstop Alfredo Griffin won the AL Rookie of the Year. Or co-Rookie of the Year, he and John Castino of the Twins tied in the voting. Griffin hit .287/.333/.364 with 21 steals in 153 games and had a 2.5 bWAR. It was a poor year for AL Rookies. In the NL, Rick Sutcliffe won the award with a 17-10 record and a 3.46 ERA in 39 games, 30 starts and 242 innings. Griffin would play eight seasons with the Jays, hitting .249/.280/.327 in 982 games.
So they figured if they claimed him, The Blue Jays would pull him back, and they would have stopped him from getting to the Braves. But Ash fooled them. He let the Padres have him and saved the team roughly $14 million over the next two seasons and two months. Myers had a rough time over the last two months of the 1998 season, putting up a 6.28 ERA in 21 games. He wouldn’t pinch in the majors again, and the Padres would pay him for the next two years.
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