The Tom Seaver Award

[Guest Edgy DC]

Lost in the alleged despondency, it's easy to overlook the 2010 Mets general ability to find starters to stay in the game into the late innings --- before a grand slam takes a bat and shatters all that makes life good. This ephemeral nightly competitiveness can only speak well of the Mets starting staff. And well they pitched --- typically --- at least after orignal rotation regulars John Maine and Oliver Perez were pushed aside.

The standard bearer for excellence by a starting pitcher can be one and only --- the pro's pro who made excellence in starting pitching so taken for granted that M. Donald Grant couldn't stand it, and had to show New York just what a treasure they had... by taking it away.

So keep alive the spirit of our very own three-time Cy Young Award Winner (and still the most successful vote garnerer in the history of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame) as you vote for the George Thomas Seaver Outstanding Met Starting Pitcher of the Year Award for 2010.

Numbers below represent the players' performances only as starting pitchers. We ask for five votes, first-through-fifth, and will score your votes as five points for first, four for second, etc.

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	HBP	BB	SO	WPCT	TB	BK	WP	IBB	SB	CS	PK	GO	AO	GO/AO	WHIP	SLG	OBA	OPS
R.A. Dickey	11	9	2.86	26	26	2	1	173.1	165	62	55	13	4	41	103	.550	237	0	11	3	9	3	1	255	123	2.20	1.19	.362	.299	.661
Dillon Gee	2	2	2.18	5	5	0	0	33	25	10	8	2	0	15	17	.500	39	0	0	2	0	0	0	42	32	1.41	1.21	.331	.301	.632
John Maine	1	3	6.13	9	9	0	0	39.2	47	29	27	8	2	25	39	.250	80	0	3	1	5	0	0	20	49	0.43	1.82	.506	.398	.904
Jenrry Mejia	0	2	7.94	3	3	0	0	11.1	17	11	10	1	0	5	5	.000	24	0	4	1	1	1	0	16	13	1.31	1.94	.480	.393	.873
Pat Misch	0	4	4.28	6	6	0	0	33.2	39	20	16	4	1	4	21	.000	56	0	0	1	1	0	0	44	30	1.57	1.28	.409	.306	.715
Jonathon Niese	9	10	4.20	30	30	2	1	173.2	192	97	81	20	9	62	148	.474	300	0	5	3	0	4	1	210	119	1.90	1.46	.437	.346	.783
Fernando Nieve	0	1	22.50	1	1	0	0	2	3	5	5	2	0	3	5	.000	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00	3.00	1.111	.500	1.611
Mike Pelfrey	15	9	3.68	33	33	0	0	203	212	88	83	12	6	67	113	.625	307	1	1	5	12	5	2	281	159	1.93	1.37	.399	.336	.735
Oliver Perez	0	3	5.94	7	7	0	0	33.1	36	24	22	5	1	28	27	.000	59	0	3	1	0	0	0	32	35	0.97	1.92	.447	.401	.848
Johan Santana	11	9	2.98	29	29	4	2	199	179	67	66	16	2	55	144	.550	265	2	2	2	5	0	0	194	214	0.99	1.18	.356	.292	.648
Hisanori Takahashi	4	4	5.01	12	12	0	0	64.2	73	36	36	11	0	21	54	.500	120	1	0	0	2	2	0	60	70	0.91	1.45	.478	.343	.821
Raul Valdes	0	0	1.69	1	1	0	0	5.1	3	1	1	1	1	4	5	.000	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	0.43	1.31	.444	.348	.792

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

5. Santana
4. Dickey
3. Pelfrey
2. Niese
1. Takahashi

[Benjamin Grimm]

Santana
Dickey
Pelfrey
Niese
Gee

[seawolf17]

Dickey
Santana
Pelfrey
Niese
Takahashi

[Willets Point]

5. Santana
4. Dickey
3. Pelfrey
2. Niese
1. Gee

[ashie62]

5. Dickey
4. Santana
3. Niese
2. Pelfrey
1. Takahashi

[Guest Edgy DC]

1. Johan Santana
2. R.A. Dickey
3. Mike Pelfrey
4. Jonathon Niese
5. Dillon Gee
* * *
6. Hisanori Takahashi
7. Pat Misch
8. Raul Valdes
9. Oliver Perez
10. John Maine
11. Fernando Nieve
12. Jenrry Mejia

[metsmarathon]

santana
dickey
pelfrey
niese
gee

[Guest Edgy DC]

Gee's feeling the satisfacton in knowing his September song was heard.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Santana
Dickey
Pelfrey
Niese
Takahashi

[Frayed Knot]

Santana vs Dickey -- Very close seasons. One wasn�t there at the beginning, the other not there at the end. But in between had identical records (11-9) and both deserved better support. Similar ERAs (Dickey better by 0.14), and essentially identical WHiPs. Dickey actually walked fewer but didn�t K nearly as many.
I'm putting Johan up top on the basis of 3 extra starts and 25 more IP.

Pelfrey -- Led staff in wins, IPs, and starts. Was lights out for a while but also had more bad games than the above two which led to significantly higher ERA & WHiP numbers.

Niese -- 2nd on the team in games started and might have been up there fighting it out with the leaders if not for his late season fade.

Takahashi had a better season overall than Gee but not just as a starter so Gee gets the nod despite only 5 starts for the year.

1st - Santana
2nd - Dickey
3rd - Pelfrey
4th - Niese
5th - Gee

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: 5. Dickey 4. Santana 3. Niese 4. Pelfrey 5. Takahashi

Interesting numbering system.

[Fman99]

Santana
Dickey
Pelfrey
Niese
Takahashi

[ashie62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Ashie62 wrote: 5. Dickey 4. Santana 3. Niese 4. Pelfrey 5. Takahashi Interesting numbering system.

Oops, fixed.

[G-Fafif]

1. Dickey
2. Santana
3. Pelfrey
4. Niese
5. Takahashi

[bmfc1]

1. Santana
2. Dickey
3. Pelfrey
4. Niese
5. Gee

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

1) Santana
1A) Dickey
3) Pelfrey
4) Niese
5) Takahashi

[batmagadanleadoff]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: 1) Santana 1A) Dickey 3) Pelfrey 4) Niese 5) Takahashi

I also wanted to vote "tie" for Santana and Dickey but didn't think this was allowed.

1. Santana
1. Dickey
3. Pelfrey
4. Niese
5. Takahashi

So what'll happen if this award winner is not the same as the Schaefer Met Pitcher of the Year?

[Vic Sage]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Santana Dickey Pelfrey Niese Gee

ditto

[Benjamin Grimm]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: So what'll happen if this award winner is not the same as the Schaefer Met Pitcher of the Year?

Rioting in the streets, I assume.

[Vic Sage]

Ashie62 wrote: 5. Dickey 4. Santana 3. Niese 2. Pelfrey 1. Takahashi

Ashie: Dickey and Santana are a "pick em", and Takahashi over Gee, while i disagree, could at least be argued in terms of Tak's overall contribution and making twice as many GS as Gee (despite pitching less well in those starts), but what's your rationale for Niese over Pelfrey? Pelf outdid him in every category.

[metsmarathon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: So what'll happen if this award winner is not the same as the Schaefer Met Pitcher of the Year? Rioting in the streets, I assume.

a general understanding that the two measure similar, but different things?

rioting would be cool, too.

[Theoldmole]

Dickey
Pelfrey
Santana
Niese
Takahashi