World news – US – Devin Williams, loyal to The Brewers, is the 2020 National League Winner of Jackie Robinson

Milwaukee Brewers relief player Devin Williams became the third player in club history to win the Junior of the Year award, winning the 2020 Jackie Robinson Award in the National League by a large margin Monday

Williams got 14 out of 30 first-place ballots made by the American Baseball Writers Association and finished with a total of 95 points. Philadelphia player Alec Boom came in second with nine votes in first place and 74 points, with San Diego player Jake Cronworth receiving six Votes in first place for a total of 74 points

Los Angeles Ramy Tony Gonsulin, who was not among the three ‘finalists’, received another first place vote

Polling was conducted by two BBWAA members in each NL city, with three names listed in order of preference. Points were awarded on a 5-3-1 basis to determine the winner

Williams was selected on 27 out of 30 ballots, with six second-place votes and seven third-place votes in the Milwaukee BBWAA class, second-place winner Andrew Wagner, who represents Wisconsin State Journal, and third-place vote by Tom Haudricourt of the Journal Sentinel

Williams said on the MLB advert, « I can’t put it in words; I don’t feel real now, to be honest »

Williams learned he won the award while on vacation in Jamaica, a trip he said he had planned long before he became a junior candidate of the year

On the challenging journey of majors after being selected in the second round of a draft in 2013 and subsequently undergoing Tommy John’s operation, Williams praised his mother: “She has been my rock since I was a little kid and she, my grandmother and my grandfather have always been there for me whenever I need anything. Something

“You showed me to keep fighting, even when things don’t go as you want you to, you can’t control it You can only control how you interact with it « 

Despite his dominance, Williams had to overcome two polling factors: being a comfortable archer, the other unaccustomed to closing matches, no loyal has won the Junior of the Year award since Craig Kimbril with Atlanta in 2011, and no loyal has won in either. The two leagues without registering at least one tackle

Seattle player Kyle Lewis won the Junior Player of the Year award unanimously, taking all 30 first-place votes. Chicago midfielder Lewis Robert came second by a large margin with 83 points, followed by Houston player Christian Javier with 11 points.

Williams and Lewis are both African-Americans, and a Brewers official said it was worthwhile to win a prize named Jackie Robinson in a year when social unrest took center stage in the United States. Williams was one of the players who spoke at the club on August 26 when he chose The Brewers not playing a match against Cincinnati in Miller Park, and supporting the « Black Lives Matter » movement after Jacob Blake was shot in Kenosha

“I feel you need someone like you to show you that it is possible,” said Williams.

“I had men like Derek Jeter that opened the door to that possibility for me.”

Williams, 26, was absolutely adept at evolving as Josh Hader’s prime prep man after auditioning 13 times in 2019 using a devastating combination of a fast high 90 mph ball and a change in The knee, went 4-1 with 033 achieved on average in 22 matches, allowing only one run-up gain – was scored at home by Pittsburgh’s Colin Moran in the fourth game of the season

Williams began collecting offensive strikes at an impressive pace, finishing the match by scoring 53 in 27 rounds at an average of 17 historic 6 per nine innings beyond his era, leading all loyalists in the Major League with 063 WHIP and 090 Hitting Medium opponents

When asked whether winning after 60 games, and a short season, was a good thing, unlike the regular glove of 162 games, he said, “For me, carrying the same weight some might argue that but everyone has the same number Games this year, what I did with them is what I did with them. Everyone has the same opportunity

Many considered Williams’ change, dubbed « Airbender », the most dominant playing field in the major currencies – high turnover, flip-flops that move similarly to the broken ball from the left shooter. The 2 hitters went to 62 (032) with 41 nets.

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Unfortunately for Williams and the Brewers, he developed a shoulder pain after his last trip of the season at St Louis – his third straight half outing – and was unavailable to play in the Los Angeles Wild Card Series, which was won by Ultimate Champion Dodgers In two games

Williams said he’s still doing a « little rehab » on his shoulder but other than that he’s been feeling better.

Williams’s dominance earned him the award for Best Editor of the Year in the Premier League, succeeding Hadeer, which he had won in the previous two seasons. He became the third rookie player of the year in the history of the Brewers, as chosen by BBWAA, with a short-lived Pat Listach winning the Major League Soccer in 1992 and third Ryan Brown (who later moved to the field) in the Premier League in 2007

Boehm, 24, who didn’t show up to the big companies until two weeks into the season, squeezed 338 in 44 games with a 400 basis points, four home runs, 23 strikes in and 881 ops he drew 16 walks, and hit 36 Only once was a clutch performer for Velez, hitting 452 with runners in the center of scoring

Cronworth, 26, who started matches on second base, reaching the Gold Glove final, nine at first base and three in a short 285 run with four home runs, 20 RBI and 831 Upps got off to a great start in August, accumulating 1021 OPS, before falling hard in September (543, including a average hitting 183)

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