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Andre Ethier - For the Canadian rock singer/songwriter, see Andre Ethier (musician).
Andre Everett Ethier /ˈiθiɚ/ , Takashi Saito and Russell Martin - For the Wycombe Wanderers football player, see Russell Martin (footballer).
Russell Nathan Coltrane Jeanson Martin Jr.[1] (born February 15, 1983 in East York, Ontario, Canada)[2] is a professional Canadian baseball player. received second- and third-place votes in the NL Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year may refer to: - Rookie of the Year (award), a sports award for the most outstanding rookie in a given season
- Rookie of the Year (film), a 1993 starring Thomas Ian Nicholas
- Rookie of the Year (album) by rapper Ya Boy
balloting, won by Florida's Hanley Ramirez. It's pretty rare for a team to have three rookies in the vote count (let alone six, as Florida had). Having this many talented kids -- we'll forget for a moment that Saito is no kid -- must say great things about a club's future, right? Some research, however, offers a none-too- encouraging answer. Since the current Rookie of the Year voting format came in, nine teams have had three rookies get votes, including the 1995 Dodgers (winner Hideo Nomo, Chad Fonville, Ismael Valdez). None of the past eight has won so much as a pennant since its rookie trifecta tri·fec·ta
n.
A system of betting in which the bettor must pick the first three winners in the correct sequence. Also called triple.
[tri- + (per)fecta.] . Then there are the 1981 Twins (Dave Engle, Brad Havens, Gary Ward), who went on to win the World Series -- six years later, by which time all three players had moved on.
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