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AL/NL Comeback Player of the Year

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by KevinmH9, Aug 18, 2008.

  1. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Mussina
     
  2. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    Part of Mussina going 11-15 in 2001 was pitching for a shitty Baltimore team. In 2002, he went 17-10 with a Yankees team that consistently made it far in postseason.

    Mussina's putting up numbers for a New York team that won't sniff the playoffs after stinking up the joint last year. As for Cliff Lee, until this year, I would have said "who the fuck is he? 'Spaceman' Lee's kid?"
     
  3. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Prior to last year, Cliff Lee was 14-8, 18-5, 14-11.
    Last year 5-8, 6.29, 20 games, some time on DL, some time in minors.
    Now, 17-2, 2.43.

    Mussina's "comeback" is not on the same freaking planet.
     
  4. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Can you leave Josh Hamilton out of the discussion?

    Technically his comeback was last year in the NL, even though he was never in the bigs before. He did get less than 300 ABs. But he didn't win it last year. I don't think MLB releases the vote totals, so I don't know by how much Dmitri Young beat Hamilton in the NL last season. Hamilton was nominated last year. But Hamilton could very well win kind of a lifetime achievement Comeback Player of the Year award.
     
  5. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Exactly. Lee was worse than Mussina last year and he has been better than Mussina this year.
     
  6. joe_schmoe

    joe_schmoe Active Member

    Heck, I'd consider giving the nod to CC for his comeback from his mediocre first half of the season. What he's doing in Milwaukee right now is impressive.
     
  7. spnited

    spnited Active Member


    and that's why you're a schmoe.
     
  8. david kaye

    david kaye Member

    Yes, give the comeback player of the year to the guy who won the Cy Young last year. ::)
     
  9. westcoastvol

    westcoastvol Active Member

     
  10. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Nobody thought Cliff Lee had fallen off the, well, Cliff. Maybe he needed a change of scenery, but most people figured he'd at least come back to be a league average pitcher.

    Mussina--who had several seasons better than Lee's best--was toast, finished, kaput at 38. And he's completely reinvented himself and is probably going to win 20 games (and maybe even become the first active player enshrined in the Hall of Fame!!!).

    I agree Lee will probably win the Comeback Player of the Year (as well as the Cy Young). but if I had a vote, it'd go to Mussina.
     
  11. bostonbred

    bostonbred Guest

    not even close.

    lee and wood are the slam dunk winners.
     
  12. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    AL: Kirk Dressendorfer
    NL: Andujar Cedeno
     
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