CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Reds infielder Sal Stewart has been voted the National League Outstanding Rookie in the 2026 Players Choice Awards, an honor selected by fellow Major League Baseball players.<\/p>\n
The award is distinct from MLB\u2019s official Rookie of the Year award, which will be voted on by the Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America and announced after the World Series.<\/p>\n
Stewart\u2019s peers recognized a rookie season defined by power, production and durability. The 22-year-old hit 32 home runs, drove in 111 runs and scored 87 times while playing all 162 games for Cincinnati. He also earned his first All-Star selection.<\/p>\n
A 2021 draft pick Stewart appeared at three infield positions and designated hitter during his first full major league season.<\/p>\n
The Players Choice Awards have honored outstanding performances since 1992, with voting held across MLB clubhouses.<\/p>\n
Stewart also was named The Sporting News National League Rookie of the Year last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Reds infielder Sal Stewart has been voted the National League Outstanding Rookie in the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-943964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}