AL Cy Young

No more shit from the SABR community about how the BBWAA idiots can't be trusted to vote. Not a word.

 

So glad that they got it right, and really happy that Price finished second.

 

Congrats Felix.

 

Murray Chass is going to be pissed that "new-fangled statistics" like ERA, batting average, innings pitched and strikeouts carried the day:

The Seattle right-hander had the league’s lowest earned run average, 2.27; the lowest opposing batting average, .212; the most innings pitched, 249 1/3, and missed by two of having the most strikeouts (232). What he didn’t have was wins. When he won his last start of the season, he finished above .500 at 13-12.

Just a few years ago a pitcher with a 13-12 record would never have been considered for the Cy Young award. But last year Zack Greinke won the A,L, award with 16 victories and Tim Lincecum won his second straight National League award with 15 wins.

The development, I believe, is directly related to the growing influence of the new-fangled statistics which readers of this site know I have no use for, a fact that sends stats-freak denizens of the blogosphere into a stats-freak frenzy.

 

I guess winners don't win

 

Do you disagree with the vote?

Seemed more like you were arguing earlier about what you thought the voters would do, not what you necessarily thought they should do.

 

Losers win!

 

TSP gets it, no, I don't disagree at all with the vote.

 

Murray Chass can go pound sand!!!!

 

I wish Felix went 12-12 so we could have REALLY seen a cool vote.

 

As I stated earlier in the thread, WAY earlier, Hernandez was a worthy winner. So would have been Sabathia.

 

No Sabathia wouldn't have, hence him finishing a distant 3rd and only getting 3 first place dinosaur votes.