The Official RCIAAS Baseball Awards Ballot- Rookie of the Year edition

Each year the BBWAA votes on a set of awards which include the MVP, Cy Young Award, and Rookie of the Year award.  Each year people have debates over who should win each award (the debates are mainly about either the MVP vote or the Cy Young Award).  We will break down each award and see who the rightful winners should be (well according to us). 

We'll start with the Rookie of the Year in the American League first.

The top contenders (in no particular order):
Jeremy Hellickson: 2.95 ERA 4.44 FIP 126 ERA+ 1.4 fWAR 4.2 rWAR 189 IP
Ivan Nova: 3.70 ERA 4.01 FIP 119 ERA+ 2.7 fWAR 3.5 rWAR 165.1 IP
Brett Lawrie: .293/.373/.580/.413 152 OPS+ 163 wRC+ 2.7 fWAR 2.8 rWAR
Dustin Ackley: .273/.348/.417/.340 117 OPS+ 117 wRC+ 2.7 fWAR 2.5 rWAR
Eric Hosmer: .293/.334/.465/.342 118 OPS+ 114 wRC+ 1.6 fWAR 1.3 rWAR
Mark Trumbo: .254/.291/.477/.327 113 OPS+ 105 wRC+ 2.3 fWAR 2.1 rWAR
Michael Pineda: 3.74 ERA 3.42 FIP 103 ERA+ 3.4 fWAR 2.8 rWAR 171 IP
Desmond Jennings: .259/.356/.449/.361 128 OPS+ 131 wRC+ 2.4 fWAR 2.3 rWAR

Notes:  The debate basically boils down to how much you want to rely on FIP which Fangraphs ses to determine WAR.  In their version of WAR they normalize BABIP (Batting Average of Balls in Play) but Baseball-Reference does not so there is a big differenece between the effectiveness of Hellickson, Nova, and Pineda.  Should Hellickson be punished in his WAR for the better defense behind him or should Pineda and Nova be penalized because they do not have as good as defense behind them.  The best hitters in the group Lawrie and Jennings did not play anywhere near a full season, so how much more value do they have over the players who played more? Trumbo's On-base percentage was below .300 which is horrendous.  Hosmer did not have a particularly great season either.  We're going with Pineda in first because of the superior FIP and it is hard to seperate the luck fairies from the ERA.  In second place, we're placing Brett Lawrie because of his superior offensive numbers despite the lack of games played.  In third place, we would vote for Jennings because of the overall quality of his work. 4th place would be Nova and 5th would be Hellickson.

Ballot: 1. Michael Pineda 2. Brett Lawrie 3. Desmond Jennings 4. Ivan Nova 5. Jeremy Hellickson