As the 2008 season comes to a close we will now go through the awards given out at the end of each year, starting with The Cy Young Award.
American League:
In the AL the top contenders are Cleveland's Cliff Lee, LA's Fransisco Rodriguez and Toronto's Roy Hallady. In my eyes there is no debate here, Cliff Lee gets this hands down... he went 22-3 with a 2.54 era on a .500 team (81-81)...and set a record with over 27% of his teams wins...
National League:
Now this one is open to debate..
There is San Fransisco's Tim Lincecum who went 18-5 with a 2.62 era, his best stat is his 265 K (Led NL) in 227 IP..
Next is Arizona's Brandon Webb who went 22-7 (most wins in NL) with a 3.30 era while striking out 183 in 226 IP..
The final candidate is New York's Johan Santana who went 16-7 with a 2.53 era (led MLB) and 206 K in 234 IP....
Another candidate that may get consideration is Milwaukee's CC Sabathia, who combined went 17-10 with a 2.70 era..
ESPN has what they call the "CY Young Calculator" which you can go to by clicking here.
Who's your guy??
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i know that when you look at stats there mey be a small debate on the cy young but bottom line is ERA is the most important and johan won in that catagory and is right there in every other catagory. Right there in Strike outs innings and if you follow the mets even a little bit you know he could of had atleast 20 wins. and yes atleast.
You might say that i am a little bios bec i am a met fan but on the contrary after the last 2 seasons. Met fans have no belief in there team and we now expect failier.
then there is Johan who even wearing a met uniform pitched incredible start after start. Doing that in A MET UNIFORM IS LIKE winning A RACE WITH 100 POUND WEIGHTS ON YOUR FEET AND JOHAN DID THAT.
He never got weighed down or caught up with the crappyness of the rest of the pitching staff. he went out there and was a true unbelievable WARRIOR.
He really de3serves the CY YOUNG.
Side point. The rays change there name and that changed there luck. i can only hope that citi field changes the mets luck but just to make sure they should call themselves the metropolitins on there uniform to change things up.
( sam, maybr that is what Marty saw the name change)
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