Buster Posey wins NL Rookie of the Year

First, he helped bring home the first World Series in 56 years and now he's your 2010 Rookie of the Year.  Enter Buster Posey. 

Posey was able to take the award from Braves outfielder Jason Heyward, who was the favorite to win the award, while playing in only 108 games.  During that time he hit 18 home runs (same as Heyward), and had 67 RBIs.  He also finished with a .305 batting average, best among rookies, and a .505 slugging percentage. 

Oh, and he was the starting catcher on the World Series Champions.  Although, that last part has nothing to do with him winning the award as the votes are sent in prior to the postseason.

Jason Heyward finished second in the voting, with Cardinals pitcher Jaime Garcia finishing third.

Posey will join quite an elite club as he is only the sixth Giant to ever win the award.  The other five were Willie Mays (1951), Orlando Cepeda (1958), Willie McCovey (1959), Gary Matthews (1973), and John Montefusco (1975).

Texas Rangers closer, Neftali Perez, was named the Rookie of the Year for the American League. 

Edgar Renteria Named World Series MVP

Is there a more unlikely World Series MVP than Edgar Renteria?  Renteria along with Aaron Rowand and Barry Zito was the posterchild of the bad contracts that were forked over to veterans.  The very sight of Edgar Renteria frustrated most fans. 

Now, he is a hero in San Francisco and will be in our hearts forever.  He has done for San Francisco what he did for the Florida Marlins thirteen years ago as a second-year player.  He has brought home a World Series title.

Edgar Renteria was signed to a two-year, $18.5 million dollar deal in 2008.  A deal that was laughed at by front office management all across baseball.  It was a huge overpayment for an aging 31-year old shortstop.  In his first year in San Francisco he played in 124 games while hitting .250 with five homeruns.  Then this year, a year where he was supposedly healthy and would go back to the old Edgar, he played in 72 games and hit .276.  He was so bad that it wasn't even sure he would make the postseason roster.

That same Edgar Renteria is a World Series MVP for the second time in his career.  Renteria batted .412 with 2 clutch homeruns and 6 RBIs in the World Series.  A pretty amazing accomplishment considering he only one hit in four games in the NLCS.

Now Renteria can go out the same way he came in--a World Series Champion and MVP.