Coghlan, 24, beat out runner-up J.A. Happ of Philadelphia and third-place finisher Tommy Hanson of Atlanta, both pitchers, in becoming the third Marlins player to win the award. He joins pitcher Dontrelle Willis in 2003 and shortstop Hanley Ramirez in 2006.

Coghlan received 17 first place votes, six seconds and two thirds for 105 points. Happ had 94 points with 10 first place votes. Hanson had 37 points, followed by Pittsburgh center fielder Andrew McCutchen (25) and Milwaukee infielder Casey McGehee (18) in the voting conducted by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America


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“It’s funny because he hit third and I hit fourth,” said Coghlan, now a rookie left fielder for the Marlins. “Each time we’d run into each other back home, he lives in Tampa now, too, there is always that memory. We’d joke about it because, I mean, he’s got more power than I do.”

Back then, both players were striving to make names for themselves at the Cape Cod League, the premier wood-bat summer league for college players.


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