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Baseball Musings
September 28, 2008
Cy Lincecum?

Tim Lincecum strikes out 13 in seven innings, allowing just one run as he earns his 18th win of the season in a 3-1 decision over the Dodgers. He finishes second to Johan Santana with a 2.62 ERA in the National League but leads the league by a wide margin with 265 strikeouts. That's an impressive total for 227 innings.

In my mind, the vote comes down to Lincecum and Santana. They're ERAs are very close, but Santana holds two fewer wins. I suspect the level of competition favors Johan; facing the Phillies and Marlins was much tougher than shutting down the Padres. Had the Mets won today, Johan's Saturday performance would have solidified the award for him. It may anyway, but Sabathia's clutch complete game may throw writers his way as well. It should be a very interesting vote.


Posted by David Pinto at 06:38 PM | Pitchers | TrackBack (0)
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I don't know. I feel like Sabathia's in this thing. After all, without his going to Milwaukee half way through the year, where would Milwaukee be on Tuesday? The Brew Crew's gone 14-3 in Sabathia's starts...they wouldn't even be sniffing the playoffs without that deal. At this point, I would seriously consider giving him a vote despite only being in the NL for the 2nd half the season. He was that valuable to his team.

Posted by: Devon Young at September 28, 2008 08:03 PM

I'm leaning towards The Milliliter. Three consecutive three day rest starts (IIRC) is a big plus.

Wins, of course, is not a good metric.

Posted by: rbj at September 28, 2008 08:43 PM

I say give the CY to Lincecum or Santana, and the MVP to Sabathia.

Posted by: DrEasy at September 29, 2008 12:20 AM

Lincecum was more consistent than Santana for the year and played on a truly sucky team. If Santana was a little stronger earlier in the year they might have been a little better. When a guy only goes 6 innings then the team has to trot 3-4 guys out of the pen to close the game I'm less impressed with the 'they blew 8 saves for him' excuse.

Posted by: Bandit at September 29, 2008 09:11 AM

You know Webb, like Ryan Howard, is going to get some love from the writers. They love wins the way the love RBI.

Posted by: geb4000 at September 29, 2008 10:58 AM
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