AL Cy Young?

It's not a story to me Xan because of the margin.
Despite what some people around here think, BBWAA guys get it right most of the time ... and I mean like 90% of the time.

 

Thing is, we have these subjective awards. Is there a reason there shouldn't be some kind of story quoting the voters?

posting after spnited's response: They probably do get it right most of the time. I just want to hear what they have to say and why they voted like they did.

 

Good for Greinke. I worried the one positive thing to take from the Royals' season wouldn't be rewarded with a Cy Young, though the more I read from the voters late, the more I thought he would win going away. Glad to see he got the recognition in a landslide.

 

That's reasonable Xan. I just donlt think there's much interesting to be said when 25 of 28 voted for Greinke first and the other 3 had him second.

 

The writers got it right, as I expected they would.

 

great job by voters, who mosly get it right. bad job by many here who worried they wouldn't.

 

If you go many pages back up in this thread and look for my posts, you can see one voter's opinion. I voted

1. Greinke
2. Felix
3. Verlander

Greinke was a slam dunk to me because he led in ERA and opponents OBP (which are two of the three biggies, to me, in evaluating how effective a pitcher is at the fundamentals of his job, getting outs and preventing runs).

Hernandez was pretty much second in both those categories among the contenders.

I don't remember why I picked Verlander over Sabathia or Halladay for third, but I suspect it was the same sort of reasoning. I also noted that Sabathia got some extra wins because the bullpen blew zero of his victories, which is better than average. (We seem to want to give pitchers credit when their bullpen fails them, but not dock them when their bullpen helps them more than expected.)