For those unfamiliar with the PPI intricacies, that only applies to rookie-eligible players who appeared on at least two of the preseason Top 100 prospect lists at Baseball America, ESPN and MLB Pipeline. Messick made his MLB debut last August and remained rookie-eligible going into 2026. He appeared on the ESPN and Baseball America lists. The Guardians carried him on their roster for the entire \u201926 season, so he could\u2019ve earned them the pick either by winning Rookie of the Year or with a top three Cy Young finish in any season between 2026-28.<\/p>\n
A team can only receive one PPI pick per player. Messick is unsurprisingly also a finalist for AL Rookie of the Year, but that\u2019s no longer relevant to Cleveland\u2019s PPI situation. They would not receive a second bonus pick if Messick wins ROY, nor would they receive any additional picks for a top three Cy Young finish in 2027 or \u201928.<\/p>\n
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Schlittler is the heavy favorite to win the Cy Young. Cease will probably be the runner-up, but that\u2019s not to diminish Messick\u2019s excellent first full season. The Florida State product turned in the AL\u2019s third-lowest ERA (2.56) across 32 starts. He ranked fourth in the AL with 186 1\/3 innings pitched and eighth with 193 strikeouts. Messick had a similarly stellar seven-start debut late last year; he owns a 2.59 ERA and 25.3% strikeout rate over his first 39 MLB starts. Messick had a little shakier showing in his first postseason action but remains one of the brightest young arms in the game.<\/p>\n
Although the Guardians are no longer impacted by the Rookie of the Year race, it will still be relevant to the PPI system. The other top AL Rookie of the Year contender, Kevin McGonigle<\/a>, is eligible for a PPI pick. McGonigle is viewed as a heavy favorite to win the award and earn the draft choice for the Tigers. All three NL Rookie of the Year finalists (Carson Benge<\/a>,\u00a0Sal Stewart<\/a>, and\u00a0JJ Wetherholt<\/a>) met the prospect criteria and made their respective clubs\u2019 Opening Day rosters. Whichever player wins that award will net their team a pick.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the extent of the PPI implications for this year\u2019s award voting. In addition to the Rookie of the Year win or top three Cy Young finish, a PPI-eligible player can net their team a pick by finishing top three in MVP voting within their first three full seasons.<\/p>\n However, that again only applies to top prospects whom teams carried on the roster for a full service year\u00a0during their rookie seasons. None of Schlittler, Jacob Misiorowski<\/a>, Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> nor\u00a0Junior Caminero<\/a> \u2014 all of whom are Cy Young or MVP finalists within their first three seasons \u2014 meet those criteria. Schlittler would never have been PPI eligible because he wasn\u2019t a top prospect. Misiorowski, Caminero and Crow-Armstrong were top prospects but didn\u2019t accrue a full year of service time during their respective rookie seasons.<\/p>\n Here are the finalists for all the major awards, courtesy of the BBWAA:<\/p>\n Rookie of the Year (winner revealed Nov. 9)<\/p>\n American League<\/p>\n National League<\/p>\n Manager of the Year (winner revealed Nov. 10)<\/p>\n American League<\/p>\n Kevin Cash (Rays) National League<\/p>\n Don Mattingly (Phillies) Cy Young Award (winner revealed Nov. 11)<\/p>\n American League<\/p>\n National League<\/p>\n Reliever of the Year (winner revealed Nov. 11)<\/p>\n American League<\/p>\n National League<\/p>\n Most Valuable Player (winner revealed Nov. 12)<\/p>\n American League<\/p>\n National League<\/p>\n Note: This post initially stated that Tolle was PPI eligible, but he was not on the MLB roster for 172+ days in 2026. MLBTR regrets the error.<\/p>\n Image courtesy of Kim Klement Neitzel, Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baseball Writers Association of America announced the finalists for all the major awards on Monday night. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,101843,99],"class_list":["post-904177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-parker-messick","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChad Tracy (Red Sox)
\nWill Venable (White Sox)<\/p>\n
\nPat Murphy (Brewers)
\nWalt Weiss (Braves)<\/p>\n