Former Harrisburg Senators outfielder Brad Wilkerson is the runner-up 24 years ago today in the voting for the National League’s 2002 rookie of the year.
Colorado Rockies pitcher Jason Jennings wins the award after going 16-8 with a 4.52 earned-run average.
Jennings receives 27 of a possible 32 first-place votes with two of the other five votes going to Wilkerson, who hits .266 in 153 games for Montreal with 20 homers and 59 runs batted in.
Jennings, though, never again has that kind of success and is done in the majors after the 2009 season with a 62-74 record and 4.95 ERA for Colorado, Houston and Texas.
As for Wilkerson, he struggles to stays healthy for the rest of his stay in the majors, which ends in 2008 with a .247 career batting average in 972 games for Montreal, Washington, Texas, Seattle and Toronto.
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