who do u think deserves cy young award?

Question

sabathia bedard verlnder beckett who?????

Answer 1

Beckett. He has proved that he can pitch in big games, and he led the majors in wins. He was clearly the best pitcher all year and he deserves the Cy Young. But he won't get it cause the voters hate the sox for some odd reason.

Answer 2

AL: I want to say Santana because I'm a Twins fan, but I can't. Beckett, Sabathia, Carmona, Lackey, Wang, and Santana are all in the running. However, I would say that Josh Beckett will win the Cy Young award.

NL: Peavy, Webb, Penny, Hamels, Young, Zamrano, even Smoltz and Jeff Fancis are in the running for the award. I would say that Brandon Webb will win the Cy Young award. His scoreless innings streak was VERY impressive.

Answer 3

Beckett or Lackey (AL)
Peavy (NL)

Bedard might have the lower ERA, but he didn't pitch the last month of the season; the ERA between them isn't a big difference anyway: Bedard's 3.16 to Beckett's 3.27. Beckett leads the AL and majors where it counts the most: wins. John Lackey led the AL in ERA (3.01) with 19 wins and 23 1/3 more innings pitched than Beckett. If Bedard had a Boston-like offense behind him, I'd say Bedard wins, but I doubt he will.

Peavy leads the Majors in ERA, WHIP, strikeouts, is second in opponent's BA and led the NL with 19 wins in 223 1/3 innings. Nuff said.

The only starting pitcher to win the Cy Young Award with fewer than 16 wins was Fernando Valenzuela (13) in 1981, but that was with a 2.48 ERA.

Answer 4

NL - Jake Peavy
There is no question, even though he got screwed in the playoff game against Colorado where Cameron got hurt and Brady Clark plays defense like a piece of jello allowing everything to get over his head or land in front of him. He lead the NL in Wins, ERA and Ks he's a lock.
Runner Up: Brandon Webb (NL ranks) - 18W (T-2nd) 3.01ERA(2nd) 194K (4th) 236.1IP (1st) on top of that...his team made the playoffs.

AL - CC Sabathia
This guy was a workhorse for the tribe pitching a MLB leading 241IP. Without him, the Indians would not even be that much of a contender. He edged Beckett in ERA slightly (3.21 to 3.27) and barely topped him in Ks (209 to 194), but impressively with 40.1 more innings pitched, managed to walk 3 less than Beckett (37 to 40). You can attribute Sabathia having better stats to the more innings pitched, but that Jeopordizes ERA and BB when you pitch more innings. Both pitchers did a great job this season, I think this AL Cy Young voting will be very very close, but I think Sabathia will edge out Beckett by a slight margin. I think both these guys deserve it and I actually would not be surprised in a tie.
Runner Up: Josh Beckett - The only 20 game winner in the majors. Great clutch performer, he is your go to guy when it comes to big games.

Answer 5

I think Bedard deserves it, but they'll likely to give it to Beckett because he hit the 20-win mark.

Bedard was fourth in ERA, second in WHIP, third in strikeouts and tops in Ks/IP. Nobody else ranks that high in all of those categories. Unfortunately, Bedard won only 13 games because he's stuck on a lousy team, and the voters don't tend to like having to think too much before giving out these awards.

Beckett isn't a bad choice, nor is Sabatthia. Bedard, though, deserves the award, and it's too bad that he won't get the support.

For the record, anyone who doesn't say Jake Peavy in the NL should read Baseball for Dummies or a similar book. He won the pitching Triple Crown! How could you even consider anyone else?

Answer 6

Peavy for the NL CYA, and probably unanimously.

The AL is a bit trickier -- Sabathia has many advantages (most small) over Beckett, but Beckett has that 20th W, and the voters sure do luv them dubble-yoos. So I expect Beckett will win it.

Answer 7

C.C. Sabathia deserves it hands down.

ERA
Sabathia 3.21
Beckett 3.27

Quality Starts
Sabathia 26 (out of 34 starts) 76.5%
Beckett 20 (out of 30 starts) 66.7%


Complete Games
Sabathia 4
Beckett 1

Shutouts
Sabathia 1
Beckett 0

Innings Pitched
Sabathia 241
Beckett 200.2

Average Innings per start
Sabathia 7.1
Beckett 6.7

Strikeouts
Sabathia 209
Beckett 194

Walks
Sabathia 37
Beckett 40

Answer 8

while beckett did win the most games, he only won one more than others, that's not domination.
Sabathia lead the majors in IP (41 more than Beckett) and was 19-7 vs 20-7 for Beckett. Sabathia also had more K's and a lower ERA.

I think Sabathia wins it.

In the NL, it's Peavy for sure.

Answer 9

Sabathia will win it, not because he is better but because he pitched way more innings this year than Beckett, which is a huge advantage and saves your bullpen. If I had to pick one pitcher for just one game though it would be Beckett hands down. Maybe next year if he stays healthy and dominates the league again. In the NL Peavy wins hands down.

Answer 10

Lets see

Beckett-20 wins
Beckett-ERA under 3.50
Beckett-Is 2-0 with 4 runs allowed in two 2007 Playoff appearances.
Beckett-Patient, not a power pitcher, confuses batters.

I would go for BECKETT.