RIP LaMarr Hoyt

1983 American League Cy Young Award winner LaMarr Hoyt died at 66.

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Year    Age   Tm  W  L  ERA   G  GS GF CG SHO     IP    H   R  ER  HR  BB  SO ERA+  FIP  WHIP SO/W      Awards
1979     24  CHW  0  0 0.00   2   0  1  0   0    3.0    2   0   0   0   0        0 2.73       0.667
1980     25  CHW  9  3 4.57  24  13  5  3   1  112.1  123  66  57   8  41  55   89 3.85 1.460 1.34
1981     26  CHW  9  3 3.57  43   1 30  0   0   90.2   80  40  36  10  28  60  100 3.74 1.191 2.14
1982     27  CHW 19 15 3.53  39  32  2 14   2  239.2  248 104  94  17  48 124  115 3.23 1.235 2.58
1983     28  CHW 24 10 3.66  36  36  0 11   1  260.2  236 115 106  27  31 148  115 3.33 1.024 4.77       CYA-1
1984     29  CHW 13 18 4.47  34  34  0 11   1  235.2  244 127 117  31  43 126   93 4.02 1.218 2.93
1985     30  SDP 16  8 3.47  31  31  0  8   3  210.1  210  85  81  20  20  83  102 3.45 1.094 4.15          AS
1986     31  SDP  8 11 5.15  35  25  2  1   0  159.0  170 100  91  27  68  85   71 5.25 1.497 1.25
8 Yr   8 Yr 8 Yr 98 68 3.99 244 172 40 48   8 1311.1 1313 637 582 140 279 681   99 3.76 1.214 2.44
162     162  162 16 11 3.99  40  28  7  8   1    214  215 104  95  23  46 111   99 3.76 1.214 2.44
                                                                                                           
CHW     CHW  CHW 74 49 3.92 178 116 38 39   5  942.0  933 452 410  93 191 513  104 3.58 1.193 2.69
SDP     SDP  SDP 24 19 4.19  66  56  2  9   3  369.1  380 185 172  47  88 168   86 4.22 1.267 1.91
                                                                                                           
AL (   AL ( AL ( 74 49 3.92 178 116 38 39   5  942.0  933 452 410  93 191 513  104 3.58 1.193 2.69
NL (   NL ( NL ( 24 19 4.19  66  56  2  9   3  369.1  380 185 172  47  88 168   86 4.22 1.267 1.91

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 11/30/2021.

 

Gonna be honest here. I was under the mistaken belief he had died years ago.

 

LaMarr Hoyt was a horse that year. You can make an argument that Dan Quisenberry was more deserving. Lower WHIP and way lower ERA.

But you don't win 24 games without being durable and dominant, and Hoyt certainly was in 1983. In fact, no pitcher has exceeded that win total since and only five (Gooden 1985, Clemens 1986, Viola 1988, Smoltz 1996 and Johnson 2002) have matched it since. RIP.

 

Bob Welch had 27 in 1990.

 

He did indeed. I missed that one.

Another Cy Young winner who died way too young.