Steve Kornacki Defends Verlander Pick
Steve Kornacki defends his Cy Young pick. The brief article provides, in pertinent part:
"Verlander received my first-place vote because nobody was tougher on the mound with the season on the line for his team."
This seems like sound reasoning. I have always heard the Cy Young described as the award that goes to the toughest pitcher on the mound down the stretch with the season on the line.
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Kornacki should just start a new award that only he gets to vote on
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He was an inspirational “horse,” using Tigers manager Jim Leyland’s term for him, on a fading team.
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"I was doing this when BJ was in his father's nutsack." -Renzo Gracie
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Is he related to Karen? Maybe he’s still bitter toward the Royals for the Emil Brown incident.
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by SittinByTheFoulPole on Nov 18, 2009 4:48 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Brown-Kornacki
Didnt he spray her with a water gun or something and she flipped out? I always hated that sour puss face rug muncher. She annoys the hell out of me.
shot her with a gun
by Fernando Vina School of Linguistics on Nov 18, 2009 5:34 PM EST up reply actions
I agree.
If he were worthy of the Cy Young he would have found a way to rally his teammates to the title even in those games when he wasn’t on the mound. [/sarcasm]
Just to be absolutely clear, once you admit to judging based in irrelevancies such as Kornacki’s why should one stop there? Why not make up whatever criteria one desires to justify giving the award to whomever one would like? Hell, why not give it to Matt Palmer for putting up an 10-2 record in 13 starts (less than half a season) for the Angels as the Nick Adenhart replacement after his terrible accident? Prorate that over the season and that’s a 20-4 record.
How could that possibly be ignored? How great was that? When the team had a huge hole – both in the roster and in its soul – Matt Plamer steps in and fills it. Imagine how the Angels season might have gone without that contribution. Just when they needed stability, Palmer provided it and carried them on his back through the terrible aftermath of the Adenhart’s death. What about that contribution from someone who wasn’t even supposed to be in the rotation. But does he get any Cy Young respect??
Kornacki’s a frickin’ idiot.
by Steve Nelson on Nov 19, 2009 12:41 AM EST up reply actions
I agree that he
should have voted for Zack instead of Verlander. But, hey, he’s got a right to put`up a defense of his vote; he’s claiming that intangibles are more important than stats, basically.
I kind of think that we statheads should give a little more importance to intangibles; a guy’s attitude, for example, is not tangible, but is very important. (Cf: Guillén, José.) Look at Grudz, for example. Not only did he play pretty well according to the stats, but his red-ass attitude affected how the whole team played. I miss him. Another one: David Riske, whose helpful willingness to advise Zack had tremendous effects.
Besides, isn’t this guy from Michigan? It’s an obvious homer vote, and it’ll go over well with his local readers. He doesn’t care what the national press says; hell, he’s probably loving the publicity.
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by Juancho on Nov 19, 2009 6:39 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
I can see using his argument for deciding
between Halladay, Verlander, and Sabathia for 3rd place.
I think the outrage expressed by the posters here comes from the fact that this was clearly a 2 horse race, with a fairly obvious choices for #1 and #2. That sentiment was reflected in the voting pattern.
Mr Glass, this is a pro sports team, not a retail store - run it like one!
but I do agree with Juancho to an extent
We may think and/or believe that Kornacki is an idiot for his logic, or lack thereof, but we don’t KNOW that he’s totally wrong.
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I’m not disagreeing with the overall sentiment that Kornacki is misguided, I’m just floating a little reminder that taking the absolute position in one direction is really no better than the absolute position in the other.
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True.
But when the award does have an absolute definition that does not include his reasoning, that’s pretty solid grounds for putting yourself on the extreme other position. Eh… I don’t really care, his reasoning is flimsy but probably got him some love from the hometown fans.
there's a definition?
i thought it was “best pitcher in each league”, though maybe there is a more strict definition that i don’t know of
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The last comment on that article is hilarious
He says that Zach (sic) Greinke is like Graham Harrell of Texas Tech, all stats and little else.
gotta admit that Greinke would destroy Big 12 hitters, though
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by Matt Klaassen on Nov 19, 2009 10:59 PM EST up reply actions
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