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SBNation and Purple Row: American League Cy Young
The various writers around SBNation have spoken, and Justin Verlander will be the American League Cy Young Award this season. You can put it in the bank. With 22 of 24 first place votes, Verlander trounced his competition this season, even resurrecting the endless "Pitcher for MVP?"...
Cy Weaver? Breaking Down The Race For Top Pitching Honors
Jered Weaver is, like, really good, man. It's possible that not even you realize just how good he is. You might remember Zack Greinke, he won the award last year? Well, if you squint your eyes a little you might see that Jered looks more like Zack Greinke than Greinke himself does these days. He's...
2008 Awards - Is The Win Losing Value?
This is just a short conversation starter about the awards that have been announced so far. Cliff Lee was kind of a no-brainer for AL Cy Young, but it's worth noting that his Indians were out of the race by the All-Star Break so Lee won the award pitching most of the season for a team that spent...
Cliff Lee's Cy Young Campaign Isn't Playing Fair
I've read two good articles recently about how Cliff Lee has had an advantage over Roy Halladay and almost every other AL starter this year -- the quality of the hitters he's faced has been extremely low. From Batters Box users Magpie and zepelinkm: Anyway, the overall impact is truly striking...
AL Cy Young, MVP, Rookie-Of-The-Year Leaders
Rotojunkie has taken over the dynamic feature started by Baseball Happenings that draws on the collective knowledge of the blogging community to provide intelligence on which players are currently considered the leading contenders for the big three baseball awards - MVP, Cy Young and ROY - for the...
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