2009 SBN Baseball Awards: AL Cy Young Award
by Ian Casselberry on Nov 11, 2009 12:00 PM EST
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This week, we're posting the results for each of Major League Baseball's regular season awards, as voted upon by the SB Nation baseball bloggers. (Each site gets two ballots; Mack Avenue Tigers' Kurt Mensching helped me out with a vote.)
Today's announcement is for the 2009 Cy Young Award balloting. I'm sure everyone can guess who won this one, but did the Tigers' candidate make the vote interesting?
| Rk | Player | Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zack Greinke | Kansas City Royals | 28 | 1 | - | 143 |
| 2 | Felix Hernandez | Seattle Mariners | - | 17 | 6 | 57 |
| 3 | Justin Verlander | Detroit Tigers | - | 8 | 9 | 33 |
| 4 | Roy Halladay | Toronto Blue Jays | 1 | 2 | 11 | 22 |
| 5 | CC Sabathia | New York Yankees | - | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Jon Lester | Boston Red Sox | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Okay, pretty much a landslide here.
This is the one award where I can't remember my voting exactly, because I know I had a hard time trying to decide between Justin Verlander and Felix Hernandez for second place. King Felix's numbers (19-5, 2.49 ERA) were just too good to ignore. But I think I ultimately gave the nod to Verlander for pitching under pennant race pressure. (Game 162 might have been a heavy influence.)
Would you have voted for anyone but Zack Greinke? And where would Verlander have gone on your ballot?
Tomorrow, we'll conclude this year's SBN Baseball Awards with the Most Valuable Player winners.
The National League ballot is after the jump:
| Rk | Player | Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tim Lincecum | San Francisco Giants | 18 | 13 | - | 129 |
| 2 | Chris Carpenter | St. Louis Cardinals | 9 | 4 | 7 | 64 |
| 3 | Adam Wainwright | St. Louis Cardinals | 4 | 4 | 10 | 42 |
| 4 | Javier Vazquez | Atlanta Braves | - | 5 | 7 | 22 |
| 5 | Dan Haren | Arizona Diamondbacks | - | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 6 | Ubaldo Jimenez | Colorado Rockies | - | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Cliff Lee | Philadelphia Phillies | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Jair Jurrjens | Atlanta Braves | - | - | 1 | 1 |
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I wonder...
Will the fact that so many of Greinke’s victories came from within the division hurt his cause?
Then again, the last three Cy Young winners have come from the Central (as have the last four batting champs).
by SabreRoseTiger on Nov 11, 2009 1:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
That’s a fair question, but he dominated Boston when he saw them towards the end of the season. If he’d been pitching for a team that didn’t suck he’d probably have won 20 games this year.
by Sutelc on Nov 11, 2009 2:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Halladay
Roy was 17-10 with a 2.79 ERA over 32 starts. 15/32 starts were against the Yankees, Red Sox, and Rays.
I find that a lot more impressive than Greinke beating up on the Central all season. (17/33 starts) He never even faced New York this year.
Not Zach’s fault, but I think Halladay deserves the Cy Young.
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by Rogo on Nov 11, 2009 2:45 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I'll be damn surprised if anyone but Greinke gets it.
I don’t care what division you’re in, it’s ridiculous to post those numbers.
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by john.kmiecik on Nov 12, 2009 9:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
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