Zack Greinke Wins the 2009 SB Nation Cy Young Award
by Freneau on Nov 11, 2009 7:00 AM EST
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PrintHopefully this is an accurate preview of the "real" award to come. Greinke claimed the AL CYA from the SB Nation baseball bloggers with little challenge.
| Rk | Player | Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zack Greinke | Kansas City Royals | 28 | 1 | - | 143 |
| 2 | Felix Hernandez | Seattle Mariners | - | 17 | 6 | 57 |
| 3 | Justin Verlander | Detroit Tigers | - | 8 | 9 | 33 |
| 4 | Roy Halladay | Toronto Blue Jays | 1 | 2 | 11 | 22 |
| 5 | C.C. Sabathia | New York Yankees | - | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Jon Lester | Boston Red Sox | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Nice to see Greinke get so much love. I voted: 1) Greinke, 2) Verlander, 3) Halladay, which is a straight WAR vote. We all know how awesome Greinke was in 2009... I don't really have anything to add. He's beyond my talents as a writer.
As for the AAAA league:
| Rk | Player | Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tim Lincecum | San Francisco Giants | 18 | 13 | - | 129 |
| 2 | Chris Carpenter | St. Louis Cardinals | 9 | 4 | 7 | 64 |
| 3 | Adam Wainwright | St. Louis Cardinals | 4 | 4 | 10 | 42 |
| 4 | Javier Vazquez | Atlanta Braves | - | 5 | 7 | 22 |
| 5 | Dan Haren | Arizona Diamondbacks | - | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 6 | Ubaldo Jimenez | Colorado Rockies | - | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Cliff Lee | Philadelphia Phillies | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Jair Jurrjens | Atlanta Braves | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Did anyone expect Javy Vasquez to be awesome this year? Odd. I wonder what Greinke could have done in the NL this season? A lower ERA by half a run with five homers as a hitter? I can see it.
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Looks like somebody cast two first place votes for an NL pitcher?
Rigged!
Go Royals!
I don't trust any metric ....
That doesn’t rate CC as the best pitcher.
Turning Kool-Aid to Jesus Juice since 2009.
Looks like an NL writer
cast a ballot in the AL instead.
Chaim Mattis Keller New York City's # 1 Royals fan!
this illegitimizes the sbnation polls....
when random sbnation dude cant even vote in the right league…even the bbwaa guys know which league to vote in
Fire Everyone
by billybeingbilly on Nov 11, 2009 1:24 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe it was one of the Milwaukee guys
can;t blame them for a little confusion.
Chaim Mattis Keller New York City's # 1 Royals fan!
Nice
In other internet landslide wins: baseball prospectus posted the winners of the internet baseball awards: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/other/iba2009/iba_results.txt
Rnk Name 1 2 3 4 5 B P
1. Zack Greinke 1105 69 14 7 2 1197 11626
2. Felix Hernandez 44 683 237 75 25 1064 6656
3. Roy Halladay 16 226 417 152 93 904 4376
4. Justin Verlander 14 119 210 293 139 775 3041
5. CC Sabathia 22 66 170 235 211 704 2448
I note with amusement way down the ballot some individual voted Tim Wakefield for first place.
The Boston Globe has a poll up also:
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/gallery/2009/11_09_09_Baseball_Awards?pg=5
Zack Greinke, Royals 68.2%
CC Sabathia, Yankees 15.2%
Felix Hernandez, Mariners 10.1%
Roy Halladay, Blue Jays 3.4%
Justin Verlander, Tigers 2.3%
Other 0.8%
Total votes: 3089
by swing and a miss on Nov 11, 2009 2:37 PM EST reply actions
No, but there was a clause in his contract that he got paid extra for just a single first place vote in some random internet voting thingy
and that was it. He split the money with the blogger.
I still marvel at Xaq's numbers from the year
only 55 walks in over 220 innings pitched. amazing!
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