2011 SB Nation NL Cy Young Award
by Al Yellon on Nov 9, 2011 12:00 PM CST
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Continuing our series of SB Nation awards, we announce the National League Cy Young winner this afternoon.
For the first time in SB Nation award balloting, we have co-winners. This isn't surprising, as late in the year when this award was being discussed, it appeared that both the Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw and the Phillies' Roy Halladay had legitimate claims to it. So it somehow seems fitting that they have tied with 149 points. Kershaw had one more first place vote (14) than Halladay (13).
Here are the two BCB ballots. Voting was for the top five; points awarded on a 7-4-3-2-1 basis.
Al: Kershaw, Lee, Halladay, Kennedy, Lincecum Mike: Kershaw, Halladay, Kennedy, Lee, Hamels
Now, I suppose you could blame me for Halladay's failure to win, because had I put him second, he would have. I voted for Cliff Lee second because he is one of only two pitchers (Randy Johnson the other in 1998) to have six CG shutouts in a season in the last 20 years. Lee had two scoreless inning streaks during 2011 of 24 or more innings, a very impressive feat. On the other hand, the voter who put Kershaw fifth also could have "cost" him the solo award.
Complete voting after the jump.
| Num | Name | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clayton Kershaw | 14 | 11 | 2 | - | 1 | 149 |
| 1 | Roy Halladay | 13 | 13 | 2 | - | - | 149 |
| 3 | Cliff Lee | - | 4 | 21 | 2 | - | 83 |
| 4 | Ian Kennedy | - | - | 3 | 14 | 6 | 43 |
| 5 | Cole Hamels | 1 | - | - | 7 | 8 | 29 |
| 6 | Madison Bumgarner | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | Tim Lincecum | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 8 | Matt Cain | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Chris Carpenter | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| 10 | Johnny Cueto | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Zack Greinke | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Craig Kimbrel | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
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I'd wonder about the voter who gave Hamels a 1st place vote...
Lou Brown: "My kinda team, Charlie, my kinda team..."
Probably
the same guy who voted Kershaw 5th
by zoltarian1114 on Nov 9, 2011 12:50 PM CST up reply actions
I can't believe someone voted for Carpenter
He threw 9.2 innings this year. Sure, he’s a nice prospect and he throws hard, but you need to pitch more than that.
by Josh Timmers on Nov 9, 2011 4:07 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
What?
No Casey Coleman?! This contest is fixed!
RoLo not even a vote!?
a single, measly, one vote?! Man…Theo’ll have his work cut out with SPs if that wasn’t an oversight! :]
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lets Go Theo!!! 10/13/2011
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