who wins the AL cy young this year?

[benza13]

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As of right now I don't see Santana getting this.

My top 3 in no order right now are

Beckett
Bedard
Haren.

-Brendan

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I like how you have the least valuable of the 3 at the top

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Like value matters in Cy Young voting.

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Who WILL win?
1. Sabathia
2. Haren
3. Beckett

Who SHOULD win?
1. Haren
2. Santana
3. Beckett

[BowToYourSensei]

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Who WILL win?
1. Sabathia
2. Haren
3. Beckett

Who SHOULD win?
1. Haren
2. Santana
3. Beckett

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between this and your post about the rockies making the playoffs i'm convinced u know nothing about baseball

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

As much of a Red Sox fan as I am, and as much as I've been impressed by Josh Beckett's growth as a pitcher this year, the stats point to Bedard.

Wins are a reflection on how good your team is, and Haren's ERA is artificially depressed by pitching half his games in Oakland with all that foul territory.

Camden Yards is more a hitter's park than Fenway, and while Beckett doesn't have to pitch as many innings as Bedard due to a great bullpen, IP is still a key stat.

[NT!]

yeah, i love beckett too and am really impressed with how he has developed. but bedard and santana are both better, and haren might be too, i haven't looked too deeply at it.

[runningman]

Pedro.

OK, seriously, Haren has tapered off, he's on a bad team, he won't win.

Santana, always the trendy pick, but his team is not contending, he won't win.

Beckett, on a winning team, if not the best team, he may not be as good as Bedard or Santana, but I think he might just sneak in there in the final month ahead of those two, because the Red Sox are going to be in a tight, highly hyped race that they will probably win against the Yankees.

Beckett might pull this out with an awesome month considering he's the only one on an actual contending team.

[SL__72]

You don't have to be on a winning team to win the Cy Young. Just have a good W-L record.

[benza13]

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You don't have to be on a winning team to win the Cy Young. Just have a good W-L record.

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But because of Beckett's team, he is likely to end up with the best W-L record.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

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You don't have to be on a winning team to win the Cy Young. Just have a good W-L record.

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Like Steve Carlton, with 27 wins on a Phillies team that only won 59.

[iamawesomer]

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You don't have to be on a winning team to win the Cy Young. Just have a good W-L record.

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Like Steve Carlton, with 27 wins on a Phillies team that only won 59.

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Thanks for the help, I was wondering last night the highest percentage of wins a pitcher had of his teams wins when I was thinking about Noah Lowry and the crappy Giants.