Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
November 11, 2008
Cy Lincecum

Tim Lincecum takes home the BBWAA Cy Young Award in the National League. I'm waiting to see the vote. Although I would have voted for Santana, I can't complain about this choice. See my thoughts from earlier today.

Update: Here's the vote from the BBWAA. Webb came in second, Santana third. The voters split down the middle on which should be in first, but Webb was the consensus second choice. It appears that wins still carry a lot of weight among some sports writers.

There was not a lot of support for Sabathia. Given the amount of ink and pixels devoted to his candidacy during the second half of the season, I expected him to get more support. Instead, he received one first, second and third place vote.

Congratulations to Tim Lincecum on his outstanding season!


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Comments

Lincecum got a vote from 31 of the 32 writers. Who's the one writer that felt that Lincecum did not deserve a 1st, 2nd OR 3rd place vote?

Posted by: Mike at November 11, 2008 03:24 PM

"The voters split down the middle on which should be in first"

Eh? Lincecum got 23 first place votes and nobody else got more than 4. How is that "split down the middle"?

Posted by: Scott at November 11, 2008 03:46 PM

Congrats to Brad Lidge, without whom the Phillie's aren't even playing in October, let alone winning the whole thing!

Posted by: Tim at November 11, 2008 05:24 PM

They need to do something about the green background. This isn't 1996.

I am surprised that CC didn't get more support. I could understand his short season not getting the Cy Young, but when he was in the NL he pitched real well.

Posted by: rbj at November 11, 2008 05:24 PM

Oh, you mean they split on 1st place votes for Webb vs. Santana. Got it.

Posted by: Scott at November 11, 2008 07:34 PM
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