Steve Sax is named National League Rookie of the Year

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On November 22, 1982 – Second baseman Steve Sax of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sax hit .282 and stole 49 bases as the replacement for Davey Lopes in the Dodgers’ infield.

Sax becomes the 4th straight Dodgers player to win the N.L. Rookie of the Year award, joining Rick Sutcliffe (1979), Steve Howe (1980) and Fernando Valenzuela

(1981.)

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