[Myrtle]

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I am pretty surprised that Sabathia won it. Good for him!

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Now, just for discussions sake.....will CC even be the best pitcher on the Indians next year?

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Come on.

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Have you seen either Sabathia or Carmona pitch live?

Carmona's stuff is absolutely electric. If he progresses in a reasonable fashion, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see him eclipse Sabathia next year.

Even if he doesn't, barring a serious relapse of either of them, the Indians sure look extremely dangerous for 2008, as barring injury, those two will most likely dominate most of the teams that they face.

An interesting subject for a discussion may center around these two and the old ball-field rubric of "good pitching beats good hitting".

The key variable in that statement is what is the degree of "good" that we're talking about?

Those two are absolutely capable of dominating the majority of lineups they face in the majority of their starts.

It appears that it takes a significantly above-average lineup coupled with either of them not being at their best to beat them with any degree of regularity.

It seems to me that that is what they ran into vs. the Sox in the ALCS?