Puckett's Pond » 2010 AL Cy Young http://puckettspond.com A Minnesota Twins Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:49:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Going Down Ballot: the 2010 AL Cy Young http://puckettspond.com/2010/11/25/going-down-ballot-the-2010-al-cy-young/ http://puckettspond.com/2010/11/25/going-down-ballot-the-2010-al-cy-young/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:57:09 +0000 http://twinkietalk.com/?p=2631 Felix Hernandez won the AL Cy Young award despite winning only 13 games, and deservedly so. He lead the league in nearly every pitching stat, traditional and advanced, but thanks to a collection of arsonists in the bullpen and the Mariners’ historically bad offense, King Felix was stuck with 9 no decisions and 7 losses in starts where he allowed three runs or less. The Cy Young award voters should be commended for getting it right; it would have been much easier to simply give the award to the guy who won the most games. This year was particularly tough for voters, since run scoring was down all across the league to its lowest rate in 18 years and so many pitchers turned in fantastic performances. That includes Francisco Liriano, who finished eleventh in voting despite a 6.0 fWAR that put him fourth in the league. Liriano probably didn’t deserve to win, but it is interesting that he failed to crack the top ten despite being, at worst, the fourth-best pitcher in the league. After the jump, how Liriano stacks up against those who finished ahead of him.

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