Giants’ Buster Posey, Rangers’ Neftali Feliz are baseball’s rookies of the year

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The top rookies in the National and American leagues came from the top teams in each league.

Catcher Buster Posey from the NL champion San Francisco Giants and closer Neftali Feliz from the AL champion Texas Rangers were voted Major League Baseball’s 2010 rookies of the year.

Posey hit several key home runs to help the Giants win their first World Series since 1954. After starting the season at Triple-A, he made quite an impact in the big leagues, hitting .305 with 18 home runs (including eight after Sept. 1), 67 RBIs and a 21-game hitting streak.

Picked first on 20 of 32 ballots, Posey easily beat out second-place Atlanta outfielder Jason Heyward.

Feliz set a rookie record with 40 saves. He received 20 out of 28 first-place votes to finish well ahead of Detroit center fielder Austin Jackson.

Two members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in each league city voted on the awards after the regular season.

-- Chuck Schilken

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Upper photo: Buster Posey. Credit: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images

Lower photo: Neftali Feliz. Credit: Ronald Martinez / Getty Images