and a 25-year-old two-time Cy winner At the risk of sacrilege here, it probably should have been 3. No matter how good the R.A. Dickey narrative was. This wouldn't be the first time that a Met pitcher might've gotten into the meat middle of someone else's Cy Young sandwich, thus preventing a three-peat. At the risk of even more sacrilege, go and compare Seaver and Gibson's '69 stats, with close attention to some of those stats that either didn't exist, or were largely ignored 45 years ago. There might be a Mets precedent for Dickey's thwart*. Seaver had the ever-important Wins, the WHIP and the "terrific" story. Gibby had just about everything else. And Gibby did it for 40+ more innings than Seaver did. http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL/1969-pitching-leaders.shtml *Assuming, of course, that you think Dickey was undeserving of his CYA in the first place.