Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Just disguisting

You knew it would happen. So do I. But I certainly wasn't looking forward to it. Bartolo Colon won the AL Cy Young, grabbing 17 first place votes and 118 total points. The two men, Mariano Rivera and Johan Santana, who both were legitimate winners trailed with 68 points and 51 points respectively. Riveria had 8 first place votes and Santana had 3, with 12 third-place votes. Sadly, Colon won only because of his 21 wins, which don't show what a mediocre season he had in comparison to Santana, or Rivera.

Rivera is a Hall of Famer who had a career year, saving 43 games for the Yankees and posting a career-high 1.38 ERA. (Its the only number really close to Gagne's amazing 2003 season, but we are also talking about a man who may not have enough awards to show just how great he's been) Santana was by far the most dominanting starter in the majors. Giving Colon the Cy Young this year is like trying to give Daunte the MVP just because of his 110.9 passer rating. As many know now, that ignores all of his other mediocre traits and the factors that go into essentially making him look more talented than he is.

Santana struck out 81 more batters and lead the majors, had a .97 WHIP, a .210 OBA, a .594 opponent OPS (all which lead the AL), and a major-league high .250 opponent OBP. The only thing that held him back were his 16 wins, which is obviously due to the dissapointing Twins season and their ridiculously inept offense.

Johan was the AL Cy Young and in my mind, this was his second-straight. Its just another example of the national media ignoring Minnesota players when they deserve it most. He is the best starter in the AL and if you ask opposing players, I'm sure they'll agree. Colon isn't even close. The only thing he has more of is girth.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's not just the national media - the local media ignored him, too. Read Pat Reusse's explanation of why he listed Santana third on his Cy Young ballot:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/508/5647441.html

Though I don't find myself agreeing with Reusse all that often, I think he nailed this one.

Nick M. said...

Well, in that case, as we have pointed out many times, it should have been Rivera. There was still no reason for Colon to win this award over Santana or Rivera. And its perfectly far to object to a old, rehashed system of picking winners based on wins. Its a new game in many and wins just dont mean as much anymore. I guess if I voted i may have placed Rivera first.

Anonymous said...

Sooo stupid