AL and NL MVPs

Lucroy has sucked since his HR, 5-RBI game August 17.

Kershaw meanwhile outpitched a Cy Young candidate in Fister last night.

He's winning the rare double this year.

 

As big a fan as I am of Fister, I think it is a bit much to call him a Cy Young contender. He has great ratios, but there are NL pitchers who have better ones and Fister did miss a month at the start of the season.

 

The gap from Kerhsaw to the rest of the candidates is pretty big.

 

Kershaw will be unanimous but Fister deserves to be in the conversation.

 

There is no conversation.

 

No doubt, but there are plenty of options after Kershaw and before Fister. Those ratios don't mean quite as much from a guy who missed all of April. Cueto, Bumgarner and Wainwright have been better. I'd put Hamels and even Tyson Ross ahead of Fister.

And, as Versatile said, there is no discussion. There hasn't been since Wainwright began to falter after the All-Star break.

 

No shit there's no discussion, conversation, fireside chat or pillow talk as to who wins it, unanimously.

But when people talk about the top 5 NL pitchers this year, they'll talk about Fister along with Wainwright and Bumgarner and Cueto.

 

Thanks for wasting our time with that debate, small man.

 

Because somebody was forcing you to read all of it, Vizzini?

 

He's not in the top five and Fister certainly didn't pitch like a Cy Young contender in that game. So many better ways to talk about how great Kershaw has been this season.

 

You have a way of making silent sufferers of us all.

 

Silent, fart boy? I do not think it means what you think it means.