Cy Young for C.C.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

AP reporting that Sabathia wins Cy Young Award.

Verducci: Joba was robbed!

(Well, you know he thinks that)

[Valadius]

Congrats to Sabathia. If only we could find a pitcher who can go 241 innings in a season.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Mets should trade Jose Reyes for him because it would make a big splash, forever steal the back pages from the Yankees, fill seats at Citi Field, and double the number of subscribers to SNY.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Weird. Thought Fausto might win that one and he didn't even finish in the top 3.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'd never make that trade if I'm the Spiders.

[metirish]

As mentioned at the time when it was posted, a good read on C.C. by Bill James.

] 21. C. C. Sabathia, Cleveland lefty (26). I have to tell you, as a baseball fan, I absolutely adore C. C. Sabathia. I always have. I've compared all these players to somebody else. It is sacrilege to compare C. C. Sabathia to any other pitcher. He is totally unique. For one thing, although listed weights of baseball players are so bogus that it's hard to see the point of listing them, C. C. has to be the heaviest player in major league history. He's huge -- 6'7"and has an aircraft carrier frame supporting large piles of necessary and unnecessary flesh, all of this adorned with comic little ears that stick out from his face as if the Lord couldn't find a flat place to put them. He has a unique delivery, hanging his massive leg in the air in seeming defiance of both gravity and nature, yet he is balanced and graceful. He projects a sort of genial warrior calm on the mound. He was an outstanding pitcher when he reached the majors in 2001 and has gotten steadily better, cutting his walks from 95 in 180 innings to 37 in 241 innings. He's 26 now, like Peavy, and his age is pushing him downward on this list; he is less of a young talent, and more of a mature product. But I don't think I've ever missed a C. C. Sabathia start in Kansas City when I was near KC or in Boston since I've been in Boston, and I hope he pitches forever.

[Valadius]

The voting:

1. C.C. Sabathia
2. Josh Beckett
3. John Lackey
4. Fausto Carmona
T-5. Johan Santana
T-5. Erik Bedard
T-5. Roy Halladay
T-5. Justin Verlander

[Guest Edgy DC]

What would Kevin Kiernan say?

By the way, that's a lot of cool names on that ballot.

[Valadius]

Edgy DC wrote: What would Kevin Kiernan say?

I can't come up with anything better than what Yancy/Grimm did.

[metirish]

Val and Yancy's similarity score is rising.

[nymr83]

the voters made the right choice.