Going into the final week of the season, I began to think about the major season awards. As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, in which each member blog will be opining our picks for awards like MVP and so on, I’ve been thinking about this more than I usually do.
As of a week ago, my finalists for the AL Cy Young Award were CC Sabathia, Zack Greinke, and Felix “The King” Hernandez.
In CC’s case, there was one thing which would have clinched my Yankee-centric vision of the world, which is if he won 20 games. There is a longstanding tradition regarding the specialness of the 20-game win season. I’m not one who believes that wins are a great measure of how good a pitcher is, since wins (and losses) depend so highly on the performance of other members of the team. However, I do believe that a certain amount of good fortune is always necessary to set one player’s season apart from his rivals. Call it the Mandate of Heaven, if you want.
However, CC did not get 20 wins. In fact, he outright stank in his final start against the Rays. So I have narrowed my field to Greinke and Hernandez.
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