Yeah, the reactions were that bad.
Adam Wainwright has a legit beef with voters. Only in America (and America's Past Time) can you get the most first place votes and not be a winner. Mr. Wainwright, Al Gore is holding on line one prepared with a condolences speech. Chris Carpenter, you already have a Cy Young award in your back pocket. Go pretend as if it were a new one and rest up for 2010.
And for everyone saying that Carpenter and Wainwright were robbed. Or that Lincecum was not deserving of the award. You're stupid. I know that will offend a lot of my friends who happen to be charter members of the Redbird Cheering Association, but I don't care.
It is not as if Lincecum was shit-tastic in San Francisco. Seriously, look at his numbers.
Lincecum led the National League with 261 strikeouts and had a league-best K/9 ratio of 10.4, higher than Carpenter's 144 punchouts and 6.7 K/9 ratio. He allowed fewer base hits per nine innings andhome runs per nine innings than Wainwright, all while having a lower WHIP.
He won 15 games -- four fewer than Wainwright and two fewer than Carpenter.
Of Lincecum's 10 no decisions, he received two runs or fewer of run support in four of those starts. If Lincecum is backed with an offense that can some how wave less than a pageant queen, 15 wins becomes 19 wins rather quickly.
I refuse to waste my valuable time running down stats that prove Lincecum was a worthy Cy Young award winner. If you want to blame the voters, be my guest. Do so in the comments section and I'll agree with you 100 percent. If you want to blame any combination of the Cardinals bats or bullpen for not getting Wainwright his 20th win down the stretch, go right ahead. Again, do so in the comments section.
But remember this. There is no doubt in the mind of any one with a baseball IQ that Lincecum, Wainwright and Carpenter were the three best pitchers in the National League. Each player could make a case for winning the coveted award. Lincecum won, Wainwright and Carpenter finished behind him.
In the end, the Giants, Cardinals and Cubs each won the same amount of playoff games in 2009.
Zero.
Life goes on.
(At what point is it OK to ask how Lincecum will celebrate?)*
2 comments:
Luis,
Come on dude. Don't act like if Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright's numbers didn't belong to Big Z and Chris Harden and the Cubs made the playoffs you wouldn't be outraged by one of those two not getting the Cy Young. You would write five blogs about how these two were screwed out of the Cy Young because their votes were cancelled out and they were so much better than Lincecum and this and that. You would, there is absolutely no doubt about it.
Wainwright was the winningest of the Cy Young candidates and had he secured the 20th win (bullpen? anyone) he would have won the Cy Young.
Carpenter was the most consistent.
Lincecum was the most dominant.
If I had a vote in the matter I would have gone Carpenter, Lincecum, Wainwright with my 1st, 2nd and 3rd place votes respectively.
And for the record, I wouldn't flip about Big Z or Harden not winning the Cy Young. I didn't trip when Michael Jordan didn't win the MVP at the expense of Karl Malone.
I just sat back, relaxed and watched M-Jeff piss all over Malone and John Stockton's dream of winning a title.
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