Longoria, Soto named Rookies of the Year

Evan Longoria of the Tampa Bay Rays and Geovany Soto of the Chicago Cubs have won ROTY honours. Evan Longoria unanimously, while Soto secured all but 1 first place vote.

Here are the final votes:

2008 AL Rookie of the Year Voting
Player, Club 1st 2nd 3rd Points
Evan Longoria, TB 28 0 0 140
Alexei Ramirez, CWS 0 18 5 59
Jacoby Ellsbury, BOS 0 7 5 26
Mike Aviles, KC 0 2 3 9
Armando Galarraga, DET 0 0 9 9
Joey Devine, OAK 0 1 0 3
Denard Span, MIN 0 0 3 3
Nick Blackburn, MIN 0 0 1 1
Joba Chamberlain, NYY 0 0 1 1
Brad Ziegler, OAK 0 0 1 1

2008 NL Rookie of the Year Voting
Player, Club 1st 2nd 3rd Points
Geovany Soto, CHC 31 1 0 158
Joey Votto, CIN 1 21 8 76
Jair Jurrjens, ATL 0 6 16 34
Edinson Volquez, CIN* 0 3 0 9
Jay Bruce, CIN 0 0 7 7
Kosuke Fukudome, CHC 0 1 1 4

* Volquez received votes despite being ineligible as a rookie.