David Price wins A.L. Cy Young
Posted by: Chad Jennings - Posted in Misc on Nov 14, 2012 
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Today was a good day to see some old friends and talk about a great man. After driving back from Scranton, I walked into my apartment exactly in time to turn on my television and see the American League Cy Young winner announced. David Price won in the closest American League Cy Young vote that didn’t end in a tie.
None of the Yankees received so much as a fifth-place vote.
I actually had a Cy Young vote this year, and although I entered the process fully expecting to settle on Price, I wound up voting for second-place finisher Justin Verlander. But it was an incredibly tough decision. This was my Cy Young ballot (as you can tell, I prefer elite starters over shutdown closers for this award):
1. Justin Verlander
2. David Price
3. Jered Weaver
4. Felix Hernandez
5. Chris Sale
Teixeira is pathetic. I knew he was declining but I didn’t know this much. Wow! What I wouldn’t give if we could escape the arod/tex garbage.
wOBA
2009: .402
2010: .369
2011: .361
2012: .341
BABIP (The shift??)
2009: .302
2010: .268
2011: .239
2012: .250
OPS
2009: .948
2010: .846
2011: .835
2012: .807
OPS vs. RHP (batting left-handed)
2009: .951
2010: .799
2011: .779
2012: .770
http://nomaas.org/2012/11/the-other-contract/
Good ballot but you should have given Kuroda some 5th place dap
Happy time in Houston. Loria just made them look like a well managed franchise.
Paco, the guy at MLBTR must have misunderstood the question. He probably meant he doesn’t think the Yankees would trade Cano. They could certainly get something for him in trade.
The Yankees Triple-A team is now the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
An upgrade from last season when they were the Bus Riders.
Congrats to Dickey.
So much for the saber vote.
just looked at king felix’s numbers
he’s 98-76. he might be 120-40 as a yankee.
http://www.baseball-reference......fe02.shtml
I like Chads ballot
They should change the big league clubs name to Hals Railroaders
Good for both Dickey and Price. Two guys who are easy to cheer for.
I liked Blast, but the Railriders logo is pretty cool: http://www.milb.com/news/artic.....=news_milb
But who cares about the Cy Young? Verlander has Kate Upton.
Seattle Mariners are hot for Russell Martin
I knew the future was troubled, but I did think that 2013 would be better than it looks. It beginning to look as if we are unwilling to pay market value. Martin will be missed compared to his replacement.
Congrats to David Price… and,
Congrats to RA Dickey!
@Hasselbeck: RT @hyphen18: Congratulations- @RADickey43 great story, great bloke!
Very happy for him and very inspired!
I like that an ex-Seahawk re-tweeted one ex-Mariners congratulations of another ex-Mariner
Pat M.,
Nice to see you. I can’t sustain the negative attitude that seems to be required around here. Who knows what will happen? I surely don’t.
Could we have traded Russell Martin for Felix Hernandez all this time?!
austinmac…..There’s always Mikey Naps
Right there with you tom. I don’t get the negative attitudes either.
People think Jays are going to be great as the latest iteration of the Miami Marlins but I see Johnson breaking down again and Buhlre following in Lackey’s footsteps. Who knows?
Can’t wait to see how the Yanks turn out for spring training.
Pat M.,
But as many other have pointed out he doesn’t catch over 80 games. Still, I would be happier with him than the other alternatives.
Madrugador,
Spring training, then the season. Some shoe will drop. Go, Yanks!
It should be fun to see which of the youngsters make the opening day roster.
Graveyard shift last night. Got to recharge. Go Yanks!
Price and Verlander were really close but Verlander definitely has an edge IMO. Good ballot Chad, keep up the good work!
tomingeorgia……How are you and I agree that hallways around here ahve become very narrow and things have become either / or……But it just seems to be the general tone that now defines the LoHud, very polarized……..Austinmac. I felt that when Cashman signed Russell Martin his contract came with an expiration date which has now arrived…..The issue is that Austin isn’t ready to take over the catcher duties which the club counted on……….It would be ironic if Martin does sign with Seattle how will it affect Jesus ???? Actually I can see Nick Swisher heading to The Emerald City before Martin does ……
They should have offered Martin the 13.3 million….it’s an overpay but at least they would have a catcher for 2013 and at least it would have been one year……they underestimated his market and also probably underestimated how difficult it would be to find a replacement
I’m happy for Price…..but I would have voted for Verlander
It would be ironic if Martin does sign with Seattle how will it affect Jesus ????
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They don’t think he can catch, or at most he is far from being a starting mlb catcher.
Montero will probably be Seattles 1B at some point if he hits like he’s supposed to