Those who favored King Felix and Verlander

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Feedback | Print Entry

The AL Cy Young Award went more or less as expected, with the very deserving Zack Greinke of the Kansas City Royals running away with it, nabbing 25 of 28 first-place votes. This is a small victory for those of us pushing for rational evaluation of players in postseason awards; the Cy Young Award has historically been "The Guy With the Most Wins Award" and, while I suppose that's somewhat fitting (Cy Young did win a few games himself), the point of the award is to honor the best pitcher in each league, and that is frequently not the guy with the most wins.

 
 

To see Keith Law's thoughts on those who favored Verlander and Hernandez in this discussion -- including those writers' defenses of their ballots -- as well as thoughts on such topics as player aging, the Orioles in 2010 and John Lackey going to the Nationals (?!?), you must be an ESPN Insider.
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    Before joining ESPN, Law spent 4½ years with the Toronto Blue Jays as a special assistant to the general manager, and was previously a writer for Baseball Prospectus. He graduated from Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon.

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