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November 13, 2008
Winning-Lee
Cliff Lee

Cliff Lee
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Cliff Lee wins the American League Cy Young Award fairly easily. He took 24 of 28 first place votes and four second place votes. Roy Halladay received the other four first place votes. Amazingly, Halladay only appeared on 25 ballots. Three voters did not put Roy in the top three AL pitchers, despite some evidence that he pitched as well as Lee this season.

Voters seemed to be impressed with save totals, as Francisco Rodriguez tallied seven second place votes and eleven third place votes to finish in third. Mariano Rivera picked up three third place votes as well.

Daisuke Matsuzaka and Ervin Santana rounded out the field of pitchers receiving votes. I don't really have a problem with any of these pitchers receiving votes, I just can't see leaving Halladay off any ballot.

Congratulations to Cliff Lee on recovering from an awful 2007 season to come back and win the highest honor for a pitcher!


Posted by David Pinto at 02:38 PM | Awards | TrackBack (0)
Comments

And of course fascination with that one stupid statistic is going to make K-Rod a very wealthy man, way beyond what he merits.

And I thought Lee should have won, but who left Halladay off their ballots?

Posted by: crankycon at November 13, 2008 03:12 PM

Anybody vote for Edinson Volquez?

Posted by: jvwalt at November 13, 2008 03:40 PM

Nope, but the geniuses who voted Juan Gonzalez a gold glove also voted Carl Pavano for Cy Young.

hey, he did pitch this year.

Posted by: rbj at November 13, 2008 04:04 PM

No one voted for Volquez, jvwait, but get this: three (yet to be named) voters didn't even include Halladay on their ballot! Maybe they didn't know he was eligible?!? ;-)

Posted by: LC at November 13, 2008 05:24 PM


Votes like these are great for identifying who you don't want to read in the future. (At least, it would be if you had access to the ballots.)

You can safely disregard any purported analysis from voters who:

a) left Halladay off the ballot
or
b) voted Matsuzaka ahead of teammate Jon Lester.

Posted by: Lyford at November 13, 2008 10:11 PM
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